NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) July 31, 2009--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today that, based on The Goodyear Tire&Rubber Co.'s reported results for the second quarter, we believe its results are on track to meet our expectations for the current rating (BB-/Negative/--). We assume Goodyear will use less than $350 million in cash in 2009. We estimate that free cash flow totaled about $181 million in the second quarter, helped in part by better management of inventories and a sequential rise in operating profitability; we estimate it was a negative $365 million for the first half of 2009. Despite the ongoing weakness in the replacement and original equipment (OE) tire markets, price and mix of $127 million