Goodyear provides all of the teams with tons of tire data on sidewall stiffness and all kind of pliability in the rubber. And there's also a safety factor like if you start the air pressure too low, the tire itself will come apart over time. So what they found was that by using nitrogen, which is dry has no oxygen has no water in it rather. That made the builds more predictable.
What difference does the driver make? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly break down the science of NASCAR in Neil’s interview with Dale Earnhardt Jr. with the help of physicist Diandra Leslie-Pelecky.
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What difference does the driver make? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly break down the science of NASCAR in Neil’s interview with Dale Earnhardt Jr. with the help of physicist Diandra Leslie-Pelecky.
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