Speeding Is Speeding - New Pit Road Rules

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Here are some of the the pit road changes for 2010.....

#1 A change this season is that NASCAR is going to enforce speeding on pit road more. Remember when a wrecked car would come to pit road, the crew would furiously make repairs and the car would fire down pit road faster than the speed limit to stay on the lead lap? Speeding penalty was no big deal because it only put the driver at the rear of the field. He still got to stay on the lead lap. New this year is that speeding is speeding. NASCAR will not allow such action again. What that means is that crews will have to complete their work sooner knowing they can't speed on pit road to stay on the lead lap.

#2 As in the past, teams are allowed a 4.99 mph allowance before being penalized for speeding on pit road.

#3 Another change this year is if a car is entering pit road or just entered pit road when the caution comes out (thus closing pit road), the driver can go down pit road (without stopping in his stall) while maintaining pit road speed and NASCAR will put the driver back in his spot when he entered pit road. There have been times guys entered pit road just as it closed because of a caution and never had a chance to react and all but had their day (or a good part of it) ruined with losing a lap.

#4 You know how there are times when a NASCAR official in the pits will kick a tire back toward the pit wall and other times they don't? Here is what NASCAR tells its officials on those situations: If you (the official) don't have to move out of the way to knock the tire back, that is fine. If an official has to move out of position to do so, then let it go. The reasoning to allow officials to even knock the tire back is a safety issue. If an official can do so without getting out of position, then it prevents the tire from getting hit by a car and knocked back into that offficial or others on pit road.

#5 NASCAR penalizes drivers for running over air hoses, yet there are cases when a driver won't be penalized for doing so. Think of it this way: On a four-tire pit stop where the front tire changer comes over to the left side, the air hose might not flip over completley away from the car. If the car runs over a small portion (small the key) then NASCAR more than likely will let it go.
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#1 Sounds like a good rule to me. Why risk someone getting hurt by a wrecked race car speeding down pit road.

#2 is really no change. It's simply the speed limit +4.99 mph. Why not just make it what it is and not have that buffer?

#3 This used to be simply called bad luck. Give the guy his position back just because they made the wrong call, get serious.

#4 Many people have a problem with this move by the official. I don't have a problem with him/her stopping the tire but some kind of penalty should be assessed to the team. But then again, you'd be getting into that whole judgment call thing.

#5 If speeding is speeding then why isn't a hose a hose? It should be a penalty.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
#2 is really no change. It's simply the speed limit +4.99 mph. Why not just make it what it is and not have that buffer?

#3 This used to be simply called bad luck. Give the guy his position back just because they made the wrong call, get serious.
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#2 - They pretty much have to do this without an actual speedometer. Right now it's very hard to get an accurate pit road speed using the tachometer. That's why they have a buffer.

#3 - Sometimes you get hit with bad luck, but this shouldn't be one of those situations. Bad luck is having a tire go down, or getting caught in someone else's crash. This is a needed rule change, and will help keep more cars competitive. Besides, they still need to make their pit stop.
 
foehammer111 said:
#2 - They pretty much have to do this without an actual speedometer. Right now it's very hard to get an accurate pit road speed using the tachometer. That's why they have a buffer.
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The way I look at it is that right now if the speed limit is 55 mph and they have a buffer of 4.99 mph, they probably have their idiot lights on their dash set to 59.99 mph so that they can go as fast as possible.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
The way I look at it is that right now if the speed limit is 55 mph and they have a buffer of 4.99 mph, they probably have their idiot lights on their dash set to 59.99 mph so that they can go as fast as possible.
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Sure they do and people got cought last year:D
 
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