KANSAS CITY, KAN. ? Doug Barnes can’t guarantee there will be no tire problems during this weekend’s ARCA race at Kansas Speedway.

But Barnes, product manager for Hoosier Tires, can all but promise there won’t be a rubber-related predicament as peculiar as the Michelin-based boycott earlier this month at the Formula One race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

“I don’t know what to think about that,” said the South Bend, Ind., native, who along with his crew was at Kansas Speedway last week as a handful of ARCA drivers tested at the 1.5-mile tri-oval. “From everything I heard, the tire company said they had an issue there, that they weren’t comfortable with the tires with the track in that configuration.

“If the tires aren’t safe, an adjustment needs to be made, and apparently not everyone was willing to go along with that.”

When a compromise couldn’t be reached about the banking in the final turn which led to two pre-race accidents, 14 Formula One cars that use Michelin tires pulled out of the June 19 race, leaving six cars in the field and thousands of disgruntled fans in the stands.

Barnes said such a situation would be unlikely in the ARCA Series because Hoosier is the lone tire supplier.

“We don’t get into the setups of the cars, but as far as our part in the race, we put a lot of time and effort into the performance of our tires at each track,” he said. “Plus, we put a lot of margin for error into the tire for safety, because obviously that comes first.”

Barnes said he didn’t know of a time where any Hoosier-tire issue turned into a fiasco like that in Formula One, but local radio personality and driver Scott Traylor said during the Speedway’s first season there were a few problems – including when pole sitter Ryan Newman had a blowout.

“But that’s partially because they had the new pavement and a new tire design,” said Traylor, whose SST Motorsports will sponsor two cars for this weekend’s ARCA race. “They’ve come back with a harder tire and haven’t had a problem since then. Hoosier does a really good job with their program, and I don’t anticipate any problems out here.”

But as far as the damage F1 did to enhancing its status in the United States, Traylor said he was surprised the open-wheel series didn’t have it’s act together.

“To be what people recognize as the No. 1 motorsport in the world, surely Formula One would have its act together coming into the U.S,” Traylor said. “But it didn’t look like they did at all, and it’s unfortunate for all the fans that spent their money to watch six cars race.”

There’s a full weekend of racing in store at Kansas Speedway. Gates open at 8 a.m. Friday. ARCA races will practice 8:30-9:30 a.m. and 10:50-11:15 a.m. Friday. NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series drives will practice 9:40-10:40 a.m. and noon-1 p.m. ARCA qualifying will be held at 3:15 p.m. Friday, with truck qualifying to follow around 5 p.m.

The gates will open at 8 a.m. Saturday, with IRL IndyCar practices running 8-11:45 a.m. IRL qualifying is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. Saturday. The Craftsman Truck Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 is slated to start at 2:15 p.m., with the ARCA/REMAX Series Kansas Lottery $200 Grand to follow around 4:45 p.m.

The weekend’s final race, the IRL IndyCar Series Argent Mortgate Indy 300 will start at 12:45 p.m. Sunday.