Your Goodyear Racing lucky numbers for this weekend – 4-3-2 (+1 extra Darlington)

Across four major championships, three time zones and two continents, Goodyear Eagles will be taking on some of the most intense and exciting racing - anywhere and everywhere!

From NASCAR's “Chase to the Championship” playoff opener at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina to the FIA World Endurance Championship's Lone Star Le Mans endurance event in Austin, Texas, the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis and the British Touring Car Championship at Croft Circuit in North Yorkshire (right near Darlington, England, which is ironic and the reason for the +1), this weekend highlights the technological prowess and capabilities of the Goodyear Racing Team and products.

From tire management on the banks of Darlington Raceway for NASCAR, to the consistency needed from g-loads of sports cars with elevation changes of Austin, the strategy and craftiness of touring cars to the brute force of 11,000 horsepower dragsters, Goodyear technology is being pushed to its limits - the only way to learn so we can create the best street tires on the market.

Goodyear takes on all comers at the top levels, and Goodyear Racing remains dedicated to helping drivers and teams find speed, traction, consistency, and confidence wherever they compete. Make sure to tune in and cheer your Goodyear teams starting this Friday and throughout the weekend!

Did someone say horsepower?

The demands placed on a racing tire vary dramatically between each championship. For Goodyear, that means understanding what being fast looks like in every environment and developing Eagle tires - that can meet each challenge.

It is the idea at the heart of Goodyear's global Fast Is In Us campaign, which celebrates the Eagle performance tire family and its more than four decades of credibility in performance - and how that spirit is found in the construction of every single Goodyear Eagle performance tire.

In NASCAR, fast is in the turns. Darlington Raceway’s high speeds, rough surface and egg-shaped, high-banked oval layout make it a demanding test for Goodyear Racing Eagle tires, and drivers and teams will need to be perfect - from managing tire wear to race strategy and pitstops - to reach Victory Lane.

In the British Touring Car Championship, fast is in the battle. Goodyear Racing provides teams with a choice of up to three different compounds, which can be deployed across practice, qualifying and the three championship races. The choice of compound allows teams another layer of strategy to a series where drivers fight for position throughout the field.

At Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, it’s a different set of challenges. Fast is in the launch. The U.S. Nationals is NHRA's flagship event, where performance begins from a standing start and the ability for Goodyear Eagle tires to transfer 11,000+ horsepower into forward motion from the moment the lights go green, before carrying that performance through the rest of the run at over 340 mph. The force, technology and grip are unparalleled in racing today - akin to a land-bound rocketship!

And at Circuit of The Americas, fast is in the consistency. During the six-hour Lone Star Le Mans, every production-based sports car in the LMGT3 category will compete on Goodyear Racing Eagle Medium tires, with drivers able to cover more than 300 gruelling competition miles on a single set. This compound has proven its performance since LMGT3 joined the FIA WEC package in 2024 and has been thoroughly tested and has endured vastly different tracks, supporting front-, mid-, and rear-engined cars, and meeting the demands of both professional and amateur drivers.

“Goodyear Racing is at its best when we can demonstrate just how different the demands of racing can be, and this weekend brings together four very different racing environments and demonstrates the challenges for Goodyear Racing Eagle tires across four distinct championships,” said Xavier Fraipont, Vice President, Goodyear Racing. “The varied environments and challenges allow our technical teams to create tires that perform, and those lessons translate to the tires that customers can buy today. ‘Fast is in us’ isn’t just our mantra, but our fuel that allows us to create what we consider the best tires in the world, anywhere.”