It's no secret that Goodyear Racing Eagles are the choice of thousands of drivers in nearly every form of racing all over the world. But it is a mystery to most race fans what ingredients actually make up Goodyear tires.
Most people think of a tire as just an old piece of rubber.
In racing, the tires get more respect than that, but most people still don't realize the complexity of what goes into the making of Eagles. The rubber polymer is the base compound in a tire. A rubber polymer is a giant molecule formed from smaller molecules of the same kind. The majority of the race polymers are produced in-house to insure specialized production and confidentiality. Its job is to reinforce the rubber compound.