Why can't Nascars run in the rain???

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What if? Rain Tires, GM Racing and Hendrick Motorsports
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (Aug. 8, 2002) ­ Chevrolet, Jeff Gordon and his Hendrick Motorsports team have been the most successful in NASCAR Winston Cup races on Watkins Glen International's 2.4-mile road course in the 19 races held here: Chevrolets have won nine times, including the last five races; No. 24 DuPont Chevy Monte Carlo driver Jeff Gordon has collected four wins here and is the defending champion; and Hendrick Motorsports has dominated this circuit with six victories, three more than Jack Roush Racing.

While some races at Watkins Glen in the past have been shortened or re-scheduled because of rain, and time trials have been rained out, the Winston Cup teams have not yet had the opportunity to race here or anywhere in the U.S. under wet conditions.

The second of two road-course races on the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup schedule will be held this Sunday, August 11, at Watkins Glen International. And, although NASCAR and Goodyear have been ready since 1999 for the Winston Cup cars to race on road courses in the rain because of Goodyear's development of a wet tire, the concept has not been tested under true racing conditions.

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Trucks make history in rain at The Glen
By Dave RodmanNASCAR Online
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (June 25, 1999)

By all accounts, Goodyear's rain tires worked well in their debut at Watkins Glen.
The inevitable day in NASCAR history when rain tires were first used in an official championship event arrived Friday at the Watkins Glen International road course when NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series teams ran two practice sessions for Saturday's Bully Hill Vineyards 150 on a wet track.
The first one-hour practice session on the 2.45-mile hilly road course, during which trucks tossed up roostertails of spray, marked the first time Goodyear's all-weather Eagle rain tire has been used in a NASCAR point event and under conditions that historically would have curtailed track activity.

In 1997, the tires were used in practice and qualifying for a NASCAR exhibition race featuring NASCAR Winston Cup Series cars at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka City, Japan. After that, the tires and assorted "wet weather" running gear, including taillights, windshield wipers and defrosters were mandated as possibilities for NASCAR Winston Cup Series races.