Some NASCAR_Trucks teams believe NASCAR should have put wet-weather tires on sooner during Friday's MartinsvilleSwy race:
Following a lengthy delay, first by lightning and then from heavy rain, NASCAR began Friday night’s Truck race at Martinsville Speedway with a damp track and teams utilizing wet weather tires for the first time on an oval track.
“I thought Goodyear did a phenomenal job, to be honest,” said Elton Sawyer, NASCAR’s senior vice president of competition. “They came here and tested. We had some Cup cars and a couple Xfinity cars and thought the tires held up well. “That we could have been a little more aggressive – teams thought we could have raced even at 11:30 p.m. ET last night,” Sawyer said. “Once you get that late in the day and we looked at the weather forecast and we were 45 minutes of pretty good rain, and then another 15 to 20 minutes to get the track to a place where we could actually go green.”
Reigning Truck champion Zane Smith, who started on the pole Friday night, wasn’t particularly impressed with the wet weather tires. “I drove to second from fourth to begin the race with the wet ,” he said. “It definitely would have been different with the concrete being wet. That would have been a little different from the start when it was totally dry in the corners and wet on the straightaways.
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