BLOG: GOODYEAR NOTES: Same Setup

This weekend in Darlington, teams will be on a tire they are familiar with, and given the fact that the track has been repaved recently, it shouldn't be a big deal.

Here's what the tale of the tape reveals:

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race No. 8 – Bojangles' Southern 500 

NASCAR Nationwide Series Race No. 7 – VFW Sports Clips Help A Hero 200

Darlington Raceway (1.366-mile oval) – Darlington, S.C.

Tire: Goodyear Eagle Speedway Radials

Set limits: Sprint Cup: 5 sets for practice/qualifying and 11 sets for the race; Nationwide: 7 sets for the event

Tire Codes: Left-side -- D-4392; Right-side -- D-4552

Tire Circumference: Left-side -- 87.4 in. (2,220 mm); Right-side -- 88.4 in. (2,246 mm)

Technical Inspection Inflation: Left Front -- 30 psi; Left Rear -- 30 psi; Right Front -- 55 psi; Right Rear -- 50 psi

Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front -- 22 psi; Left Rear -- 20 psi; Right Front -- 52 psi; Right Rear -- 48 psi

Notes: Teams in both the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series will run the same Goodyear tire codes at Darlington this week...this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that these teams ran at Darlington last May...this left-side tire code (D-4392) has been run at Darlington since 2011...these teams have also run this left-side at Texas (including last week), Chicagoland and Homestead in the past...in addition to Darlington 2013, these teams have run this right-side tire code (D-4552) at Charlotte...as on all NASCAR ovals greater than one mile in length, teams are required to run inner liners in all four tire positions at Darlington...air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.