No one gives the teams anything. Racing tires are very expensive. One of NASCARS goals is to reduce the costs associated with racing. All teams would have to buy two types of tires and prepare them for racing.

Treaded tires are not as adhesive as slicks.

Motorcycles have the ability to change the tire angle when turning. Race cars do not. Not a valid comparison.

One cannot really race in the rain, even tho some groups do this. The speeds are greatly reduced, and only die hard fans stay around to watch. It does not make one better, or more talented to race in the rain.

NASCAR has more leeway in re-scheduling a rain out. Groups that move country to country do not have this leeway.

It would be very dangerous to race a heavy stock car on a slick track for no good reason. They have enough trouble when the dry track is slick.

Racing in the rain, or on rain slick tracks is just not a good idea for any sactioning body in my opinion. I would not want to watch this type of racing as a paying spectator. jd

 

Rain or shine...it doesn't matter. I am like alot of the guys posting on here. NASCAR is no longer a part of my Sunday afternoons. I got tired of watching the race and someone other than Jr., Gordon, Johnson, or Harvick is in the lead or the top 5 and he suddenly drops back without even a comment because the announcer are wondering what's wrong with Jr. He's been in the back of the field all day. They push who they want to be popular and ignore everyone else. It truely has become wrestling on wheels. I would rather watch paint dry...

 

i dont get it, everybody else races in whatever weather may come, to a point, but rain is definitely in. and i am sorry to point it out but it takes an extreme amount of skill to drive a race car in the rain, maybe even make nascar drivers better. screw the money, you and i will never be able to field a team, it is full of big money, why do we worry about cheap. develop your car and test it thoroughly, rain, or dry, slicks or rains. it is called racing, everybody else has to do it. oh well nascar went away for me when chevy started cryin about there monte carlos, not being able to run with the birds and were not selling on monday. so we are gonna stop building a rear wheel driver with a v8, let us run our fwd, or else we will take our ball and go home. i would have said good bye., that was a major step towards where we are today ... the cot, with a different sticker package and engine. i dont care who wants to enter the , but make sure i can buy a version of your rwd with a v8 on monday. toyota, hell ya, give me a rwd v8 camry and you are welcome, hyundai, ya wanna race my series, go home and build a rwd v8 that the masses can buy and come play.open it up, ya wanna play, cowboy up, lets go racin. if your body isnt competitive ala late 80's moby carlo, tough crap, go find a way to make it competitive, redesign it. ford your mod motor wont run with the ls chevy, tough go fix it. now that is racin, and if it ever went back i would come back. in the mean time it is footbal season. yeah! Dan

 

Buckarcher
Motorcylces run a slick when it isn't raining. When it is they will put on a rain tire.

 

referring to the original post,just goes to show you how much "super star" jimminy johnson knows about the rules. The rules say nothing about "pace car" speed. the rule says "reasonable" speed,and biffle crossed the line at reasonable speed. too bad for chevy crybabies,nascar finally made the right decision and it just so happened it favored a FORD driver!!