Cup race

I wonder how many more times D.W. will change his mind about #14's two tire strategy?
 
LOL at DW..."and how many races has it been since Edwards' won a race?"

Uhh...that would be two Darrell.
 
Have you noticed that Larry Mac has given up his usual "..reach up there and tighten those belts one more time!" at the start of the race? Now if we can just get Jaws to drop it.
 
Larry Mac hasn't talked near as much and has missed the boat on stragedy the last two races.
 
What's the rules on tires that get away...didn't the 99 have a tire that rolled into another pit box? I though you had to maintain control of tires at all times?
 
If your JJ an official will chase your tire and catch it lol. Yeah I thought if a tire went out of the pitbox you got a penalty.
 
If your JJ an official will chase your tire and catch it lol. Yeah I thought if a tire went out of the pitbox you got a penalty.

On Windtunnell last night, Despain said they had also sent NASCAR a question on it, but didn't really get anything back.
 
I didn't see the tire in question but doesn't penalties depend on how it (the tire) left the pit box?
 
I was unable to watch most of the race this past weekend and missed the tire incident. Is there any video out there that someone could post a link to? I looked and couldn't find anything. Can someone at least explain what happened? Did they roll the tire out of the pit box or did it get away while the tire changer was pulling it off? Did another car knock it out of the box? Just curious.
 
I found the answers to my questions. The tire thing happened around lap #150 during yellow flag pit stops. It was hard to tell how the tire got away but it did roll behind the car while they were changing left side tires. The removed left rear tire rolled backward away from the car into the open pit of the #66, Michael McDowell, car. Michael McDowell only ran 41 laps and was out because of brake failure. I don't know if the NASCAR officials take into account that there is no car pitting in that box or not when making the call but I'd say if it's out, it's out.
 
This is the rule for tires:

A team member must be in contact with the outside tire(s) until the outside tire(s) reach the inside half of the pit box before the car leaves its assigned pit box. Any tires left in the outside half of the assigned pit box, or beyond, will result in a time or other penalty ..."

http://www.nascar.com/2008/news/headlines/cup/01/10/pit.road.rule.changes/index.html

12th paragraph.

So it was an inside tire that got away from the crew?
 
They talked about this on one of the radio shows yesterday and I did not understand the answer. They said "the tire did not get onto pit road." I thought the pit boxes were a part of pit road.
 
It looks like the Biffle team is making some changes after the Las Vegas fueling issues.....

Greg Biffle's team will replace its gas man with its former catch-can man as far as over-the-wall duties are concerned. Ryan Dextraze is new gas man for Greg Biffle. He had done catch can before. Billy Manchester goes from gas man to windshield tear off.

Gas man to windshield tear off guy! Wow, that's gotta suck. I wonder where the next move would be? Lug nut picker upper? :rolleyes:

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