Christopher Bell drove the final 86 laps Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to become the first driver in NASCAR's Cup Series to win a race on Goodyear rain tires. It was a race Bell wouldn’t have won before this season. New Hampshire was stopped by rain with 82 scheduled laps left and it would not have resumed without the wet-weather tires.
A member of the New Hampshire Motor Speedway pit lane fire crew uses a broom to remove water during a rain delay in a NASCAR Cup Series race, Sunday, June 23, 2024, at the race track in Loudon, N.H. Pit crew for Ty Gibbs work on the car in pit lane during a rain delay in a NASCAR Cup Series race, Sunday, June 23, 2024, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H.
Bell instead celebrated his second career Cup win at New Hampshire once the race resumed on the new tires and swept the weekend following his Xfinity Series win on Saturday. NASCAR switched to wet-weather tires Sunday after a 2 hour, 15-minute weather delay that threatened to end the race. New Hampshire had a solid crowd for its lone Cup weekend and fans that braved the weather and stuck out the delay were treated to a thrilling — and complete — race to the end because of the tires.Hamilton not regretting future move to Ferrari after 1st podium of his final year with Mercedes“Our fans that bought a ticket, they got to see some great, exciting racing,” Sawyer said.
Sawyer said the idea to move ahead with Goodyear for a reliable rain tire was the vision of NASCAR chairman Jim France. The tires weren’t constructed to be used when it’s actually raining but once the severe weather has passed and the oval tracks are still damp. Teams had a maximum of four sets of wet-weather tires to race on the damp oval track. Teams had to take rain tires during pit stops and their position could not be affected.
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