Richard Childress warned NASCAR about extreme tire wear before Food City 500 at Bristol

Right now we are seeing teams having to adapt and change strategy in the Food City 500 because of tire fall-off. Richard Childress was telling NASCAR this morning that they were going to have issues with the rubber.

Through the first stage, there was a big lesson learned – racing up front is going to burn up tires and cause issues later. We have seen drivers come and go. Leaders are battling, swapping position for P1.

Tire conservation is going to be the name of the game moving forward. We are going to see drivers pacing themselves. And we might even see NASCAR pull out more tires for teams to use in this Food City 500.

Richard Childress was talking about it this morning with NASCAR.

“Went to the [NASCAR] trailer this morning and told them they were going to have a problem,” Childress said over the radio to Kyle Busch, via Dustin Long of NBC.

This is a developing story…

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