{"id":529080,"date":"2026-03-11T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529080\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:40:07","slug":"denny-hamlin-assigns-blame-for-widespread-tire-issues-at-phoenix-reacts-to-goodyear-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529080\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin assigns blame for widespread tire issues at Phoenix, reacts to Goodyear troll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid a slew of tire issues during the final stage of the Straight Talk Wireless 500 at Phoenix, Goodyear issued a reminder to drivers<\/a> that the teams are provided a recommended tire pressure for a reason. The bluntness of the reminder left Denny Hamlin in stitches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love it. They were not guesses,\u201d Hamlin said, referring to the recommended tire pressures. \u201cThat\u2019s right. I love a good troll by Goodyear.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the issue was a real one. While a broken rotor for Noah Gragson seemed to hit the track and catch multiple other drivers up in the mess, there were also tire issues that weren\u2019t a result of debris on the track.<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin was asked about it on this week\u2019s episode of the Actions Detrimental<\/a> podcast. He believes the issue was one that could have been avoided.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the teams. We\u2019re just pushing it,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cWe certainly know that the more that you lower the air pressure the faster you\u2019re going to be on the long run. And these teams just keep pushing it. So what they do is they get somewhat comfortable in practice, they run the first run of the race, see where things are, and then all the sudden they\u2019re like, \u2018All right, well let me take another tenth or two out of the tire.\u2019 And that\u2019s when it \u2026 it\u2019s that close.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s pretty much always the case. Teams are looking to min-max their performance, and seeking little edges like tire pressure is just the latest iteration.<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin\u2019s co-hosts noted that he seemed to be relatively immune from the issues on Sunday. Of course, that got Hamlin going for a different reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs that the announcer jinx?\u201d Hamlin said, shaking his head. \u201cAre we going to blow a tire here this weekend?\u201d<\/p>\n

Regardless, Denny Hamlin opened on up ways to game the tire pressure and why NASCAR<\/a> drivers are looking for an edge there. It\u2019s worth considering moving forward, even as drivers try to prevent issues. Is that actually possible, to control the downside?<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say I don\u2019t know. I definitely think that there\u2019s things that you can do as a driver to help the situation, especially early in a run,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cBut sometimes the anvil just drops on your head. Now if you\u2019re a repeat offender, if it\u2019s your team and your driver that keeps blowing tires and your team is screaming, \u2018Well we\u2019re not as low\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a combination of things too. It\u2019s also, it\u2019s not just the air pressure, it\u2019s how much camber you\u2019re putting with that air pressure. So if you want to drop your air pressure super, super, super low, just reduce the amount of camber that\u2019s in the tire. But then there\u2019s efficiency that you lose actual grip on the short runs. Again, it\u2019s a fine line. You want the camber for the short run, you want the air pressure for the long run. You\u2019re constantly just battling those two out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid a slew of tire issues during the final stage of the Straight Talk Wireless 500 at Phoenix,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-529080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}