I can imagine they were p/o’ed!
I didn’t like the COT when it first came out. After seeing Daytona, I thought it showed more promise. After the spring race at TMS, I really have no desire to go again. (Probably will, but...)
A lot of finger pointing at GoodYear and the track. Flash said it was everyone’s fault and he may have been indirectly pointing at the car.
IMO, the problem lies with this piece of junk Nascar is attempting to call a race car.
Maybe they need different cars for different tracks. I like the COT at the short tracks (can handle the banging), not bad at the 1.5 mile tracks where it can slam off the wall and keep going, and even at the super speedways it is not bad.
If you want to run at Indy put the cup car drivers in Indy cars and let them go at it.
This track is just wrong.
I was at the race. IMO, the compound was too hard. It just ground the tire off and left black dust. People in the corners looked like chimney sweeps when it was over. A softer compound would have rubbered the track in better. I think Good Year just guessed on the tire based on needing to run harder compounds on the COT at other tracks.
I think they are going to have to do some design changes on the car. They are safe it would seem, but they are boring as all get out to watch and create too much right side loading to keep tires under it. Maybe wider right side tires would help.
I had heard that Tony was warned up front not to trash Goodyear.....Whether that’s true or not, it wouldn’t surprise me.