Denny Hamlin Shares Staggering Price NASCAR Teams Pay for Unused Tires

um I got one dear Denny for you this week uh do Cup teams usually have unused sets of tires left at the end of a weekend and if so should NASCAR reduce the tire allotment The Limited sets in trucks and exfinity are a major storyline most weeks yet this doesn't seem talked about as much in cup um should they limit the amount of tires I would say no because I I don't know that you want it to be to you know that be the differentiator I'm more of a I'm more of a fan of actually having different compounds um and letting the teams figure out when they want to run them um listen we got to get one good compound first before we start diving into multiple but uh interesting fact and I had to had to call a phone a friend on this one um give credit to Chris gabart on it uh I didn't you know as a team owner I we always kind of look at costs and everything and so he gave me a staggering staggering um fact that I did not I did not know um so when you say say we go to Texas this weekend they give us eight sets of tires if we use six we don't get a rebate on those two now I I I knew all this but there was I'll get to the Staggering fact so we do not get reimbursed for those tires you can use them if we take that tire to another track so for instance the Texas tire is the same as the Kansas tire so we could if we have a a leftover set you know $2,400 a piece or whatever they might be we don't get we can't just turn them back into Good Year and get a refund they they tell us you're buying these sets of tires and they're yours now and you can do whatever you want with them um so at the end of the day we what we do is we have an extra set we will put them back at uh champion and they will take them to they'll put them in inventory and so if we go to Kansas say let's say we go to Kansas next weekend or you know we likely would tap into that extra set and say okay we're going to practice on those tires but if Kansas is 3 four months down the road we're not going to want old ba coats so we're not going to want older tires because they do they age rubber ages and it changes compounds and it it it it's funny when you get older tires it's just you don't that can really mess up a car um so it just goes to waste and um you know sometimes you can work with some back marker cars and sell them to them to try to reimburse some of your costs back um but uh Jared do you know how much jgr had entire extra tire inventory in the first year of next gen 2022 how many how much money worth of tires was spent and never ran do you want me to make an educated guess because I know the answer I know you're supposed to act like you don't know the answer oh I don't know um $100,000 no you were wrong um nearly 1 million nearly one million worth of tires that jgr the team spent on tires that it never ran that is incredible so a quarter of a million per car yes sir so we keep talking about cutting cost cutting cost cutting cost how about we just get a refund for the tires we don't use like can they go back in the recycling B Good Year please take them back um it's just wasted money and and um holy I didn't realize the number was that high uh but man we got something new we need to start advocating for and that is allowing us to return our tires we don't use put them back in the the mixer at goody year and remake the tire for later down the road or something but holy as much money as we spent on tires a million dollars worth of unused tires holy crap talking about helping the race teams help us help us there because that is a waste I think you were stunned when he said it because you had him repeat it right you couldn't believe that number I couldn't believe it but he says in 2022 first year of nextg that was how much they had in unused inventory in one year so that's pretty crazy so yeah te it's on you when you buy them they don't you know they don't care whether you use them or not they've they've got the purchase and you have to figure out how to uh either use them yourself in a future race or race weekend which never happens because you don't if it's two or three months down the road before we use that compound again we're not going to use them they're just too old they're going to be slower um or you have to sell them to a a team in the back that really doesn't care about speed that much right but you're kind of forced to buy these you can't just someone's going listen to this podcast and be like well how about you just buy less tires well okay within 20 laps to go we need a pit for tires we don't have any like that's just yeah that's not an option folks sorry everyone buys the maximum set now why why don't they so I was under the impression actually that um Goodyear brought all the tires to the track every weekend which is why those Goodyear trucks are there filled with tires they bring the tires to the track every weekend and then they distribute the tires to the team so if on the Texas weekend each team gets nine sets of tires they distribute those nine sets of tires to the team and then they charge them for whatever the cost is of those nine sets 2400 per set and then if all the teams only use eight sets then they would just take back those set of tires and that seems logical Jared it's a great business strategy for Good Year no doubt you you buy it but you didn't use it yeah I mean when you think about that's for one team $250,000 now not every not every team has that much use unused inventory but let's just say it's 200 Grand times 36 teams is that $5 million and in and we haven't wasted money we haven't had a guest on this year and Travis uh has asked a couple times in the chat in our group text you know who Denny would like to have on I think we need to have a good year representative on I'm just these are just general questions I'm curious of like why don't they sell these tires to the teams you know jar I mean I get it but again it just seems like trying to make money I don't know it just doesn't seem we're progressing the sport forward if everyone 's trying to one up each other I don't know no you I mean it's a point for sure I mean we're we keep cutting this cutting that cutting this cutting that but that is it that is wasteful money for sure and it seems like there there could be there should be a better solution than just saying you're you know you didn't use it and you're stuck with those tires sorry you figure out how to get rid of them how much would that $250,000 per car make a difference at the end of the year on your team's budget uh we'd have $250,000 more that we wouldn't lose so I'd save $1 125 Grand of my own money I I don't know what to say yet uh yeah it's it every little bit helps I mean could be spent on bonuses for employees improvements in the shop all sorts of lots of things how would you invest it in the sport that's what they want to know it's not a hard task for sure um it's c certainly does it cost more money the engine bills are the same I've been saying this forever

Channel: Actions Detrimental with Denny Hamlin

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Length: 8min 35sec (515 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 18 2024