Joey Logano asks Homestead to broaden Pit Road: ‘We flirt with a disaster’

Three-time Cup champion Joey Logano, who was involved in a pit road incident last weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, says that the track should broaden Pit Road because “we flirt with a disaster on that pit road.”

However, Homestead is not, according to the Jacing Insights data, not under the five cup traces with the narrowest pit road.

Logano was involved in a pit road accident when Josh Berry collected him after jumping Kyle Larson’s car on the round 84 of the 267-Round race. Both Logano and Berry spotted in uninhabited pit stalls during the cautionary flagpit order.

But what could Logano be. Logano said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio’s “The Morning Drive” on the broader Pit Road on Homestead on Tuesday:

“I don’t know what their plans are renovating, but I would put it as the No.1 priority. Not due to the wreck on Pit Road, but due to the safety risk to the pit staff. We flirt with that. We flirt with a disaster on the pit road. No one wants to see it. No one wants to see it on TV, someone is crushed.

“The long-term impact, even if you are ok, or an injury that a big old stock car comes running at you. It’s one thing when there is a car coming at you and you see it and you jump up in the air, it’s not good, it’s still going to be bad, but when your back, Like if you’re a tire changer, and you’re on your knees and you are low and a car comes sliding at you and you can’t see it coming and you can’t get out of the way.

“If you can get up and to the windshield (to jump on) everyone knows it’s better. But if you don’t see it coming and you can’t get out of the way?

Homestead-Miami Speedway is for seventh place under the NASCAR CUP tracks in terms of the narrowest pit roads. It is based on the distance measured from the edge of a pit stall to the outer line or wall.

World Wide Technology Raceway’s Pit Road is the strictest in the series at 22 feet wide.

Indianapolis car Speedway is second in the cup with a 24 -foot wide pit road. A member of Ryan Blaney’s put staff was treated and released from a local hospital after being beaten by Brennan Poole’s car on Pit Road in the 2020 race when the field was piled up.

According to Racing Insights, the Pit Road at Circuit of the Americas is 26 feet wide to stand third in the cup. Fourth place is Darlington Raceway and Martinsville Speedway, which hosted the Nascar Cup, XFinity and Craftsman Truck series. Both Darlington and Martinsville have pit roads that are 28 feet wide.

Dover Motor Speedway is sixth with a 29 -feet pit way. Next is Homestead, Texas Motor Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway. The pit road of each track is 32 feet wide.

Homestead-Miami Speedway is owned by Nascar. A NASCAR spokesman told NBC Sports on Tuesday that there are no current plans to reconfigure Pit Road.

A pit road incident on the track led Nascar to require pit staff to wear a helmet as they crossed the seed wall.

Three of Ricky Rudd’s pit crew members were injured in the 2001 cup race on Homestead. Casey Atwood and Ward Burton collided as they left their pit stalls and sent Burton’s car to Rudd’s pit stall while his crew served the car.

Burton’s car hit Rudd’s Jackman and both tire changers, along with sending an NASCAR official on the bonnet of his car. No one was wearing helmets. One member of the well was seriously injured and taken to a local hospital.

Before the 2002 season, Nascar required pit crew members to wear head protection as they crossed the wall.

Logano also discussed Pit Road Speed ​​on SiriusXM NASCAR radio this week. In Homestead, the speed restriction of the Pit Road was 45 km / h.

“Even if you delay the velocity of the well, which is probably the easiest to do, it still doesn’t make up the problem,” Logano said. “Josh and I were not even on our way to the velocity of the road as we turned. I just got started. It’s a scary, sketch -thing. I feel like we are flirting with disaster. We definitely play with fire. ‘