SMT DATA/NASCAR TECH

[Revman]

So my thoughts are specifically with SMT data, but I want to broaden this post to all NASCAR tech. Specific to SMT....I just don't get it. NASCAR wants this sport in the drivers' hands. Why would they make each drivers' styles available to all? In listening to the scanners, this has become a game of copying what the leader is doing instead of figuring it out themselves. I think that Denny has been neutered at Martinsville. There are no more secrets. In a series that wants to be driver specific and limit tech, what are we doing? I hate it.

As a side note to tech, I never understood the digital dash. The narrative was that it was more in line with our daily drivers, but MY dash doesn't look like that. Seems like some money spent for what?

 

[AndyMarquisLive]

As a side note to tech, I never understood the digital dash. The narrative was that it was more in line with our daily drivers, but MY dash doesn't look like that.

Some of the newer cars look like that, with all the information in an LED/LCD screen on the dashboard.

Mine is nothing like that. Although I'm considering putting an external digital dashboard in, or at least an external tire pressure monitor. I see the kids now put these things in their cars all the time.

 

[kkfan91]

I agree on the point I don't think you should be able to look at other teams SMT data. Why can you look at that but have to blur out the dashboard?

 

[MRM]

Some of the newer cars look like that, with all the information in an LED/LCD screen on the dashboard.

Mine is nothing like that. Although I'm considering putting an external digital dashboard in, or at least an external tire pressure monitor. I see the kids now put these things in their cars all the time.

Yeah, you should see the dash displays on some of these new cars. Wow!

I find it more concerning the teams acted like they couldn't function without their data available to them in the pits.

 

[SpeedPagan]

Yeah, you should see the dash displays on some of these new cars. Wow!

I find it more concerning the teams acted like they couldn't function without their data available to them in the pits.

I've been listening to a lot of DJD recently and honestly you'd be surprise how tech heavy NASCAR has gotten in the last couple of years. Gone are the days of Slugger Labbe who built his own cars and know the cars inside and out. I mean Hel, even Chad Knaus would probably be considered an old timer in today's tech heavy and engineer heavy NASCAR. Even AI is starting to make inroads into the Crew Chiefs arsenal.

 

[Formerjackman]

Yeah, you should see the dash displays on some of these new cars. Wow!

I find it more concerning the teams acted like they couldn't function without their data available to them in the pits.

23 years ago, the shops I work in didn't even HAVE computers. Now, if the internet goes down, almost EVERYTHING grinds to a halt. We can't even clock in and out. I remember standing on pit road during the 1995 Brickyard 400 rain delay and watching a crew member spend a half hour trying to get their DSS satellite dish on the war wagon working properly. Once you get a resource, you are usually loathe to lose it.

 

[Spotter22]

23 years ago, the shops I work in didn't even HAVE computers. Now, if the internet goes down, almost EVERYTHING grinds to a halt. We can't even clock in and out. I remember standing on pit road during the 1995 Brickyard 400 rain delay and watching a crew member spend a half hour trying to get their DSS satellite dish on the war wagon working properly. Once you get a resource, you are usually loathe to lose it.

He was probably trying to get the football game, thats about all it was good for in 95, TV

 

[Formerjackman]

He was probably trying to get the football game, thats about all it was good for in 95, TV

They were using it for the weather radar and to watch the TV feed of the race, things we take for granted now, but a big deal then.

 

[Spotter22]

They were using it for the weather radar and to watch the TV feed of the race, things we take for granted now, but a big deal then.

Thats in a nutshell what I said good for TV , Pre race we would watch the games, during the race you would watch race broadcast and try to glean some info, maybe if in a crash get a look at the car before it came back down pit road etc....