Quote Originally Posted by TRYMY4.6 View Post
Most of the time we see eye to eye...here we couldn't be any further apart. All I have to say is:

If motorcycles can race in the rain, why can't nascar?


You say it is b/c of the tire compound. So there are no other alternatives? What about the tires for F1 and Indy? Can they not use the technology from these tires? I believe Nascar drivers are a bunch of drama queens. What a shitty "sport."

-Ant.
Wet tires cannot handle heat no matter what. Not even in F1 not even in bikes.

Other series can run in the wet on a road course because the loads are completely different and they can move off line to find puddles to cool tires.

NASCAR will run in the wet on road courses, but on an oval, the water falls down, the track will heat fast, tires will explode. There's no way to do it with what is available and even if they found a tire that could do it other concerns still exist, easiest is spray. In a pack like they run in it would be brutal.

A large majority of NASCAR drivers COULD easily run in the wet, most have road racing experience, grew up on dirt tracks, etc. There is no lack of driver skill in the field.