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Martinsville, Va.-The Jack was about to drop Elliott’s car on Homestead-Miami Speedway this past weekend, the signal to fire out of his pit stall. But Elliott saw the crew in the box ahead still work on the right side of the car.
‘I watched the guys all because I knew the Jack was preparing to fall for me, and I would have to make a fairly aggressive gas pool to slip the back of my car to get enough angle to get out without having to be again, “Elliott said.
The jack falls. Elliott shot out of his stall. He is on his way to the off track of Pit Road.
“Many times you are cleaned to the wall (outside the track on the Pit Road) and you are not always clear,” Elliott said at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday. “I usually watched an eye on things 90% of the time as they came and I didn’t have the chance to watch. I got out there. I went, and I felt the last second there that someone was there, but I was too late. ‘
This is the first cup race on a short lane this season.
Elliott and Ryan Blaney hit Pit Road. They continued, but it was another case of contact on Pit Road this season. Since the Nascar Cup series rushes today on Martinsville Speedway, another lane with a narrow pit road, is the question that can happen next and can it jeopardize pit crew members?
“I’m not exactly sure that there is another solution, but that we are all really on our game, while we drive people around who are a great risk and also aware of your competitors when they come and go into their stall or get faster,” Elliott said.
Pit Road became more important than a way of obtaining positions. With the field closer together, it may be easier to find places on Pit Road as opposed to the track. But it has also been a place where cars were spun and contracted lately. Homestead, Martinsville and Darlington, the next weekend’s race website, have the narrowest pit roads on the cup.
Last weekend’s race on Homestead, Josh Berry also collected from Kyle Larson’s car, and collected Joey Logano. Both Berry and Logano spun in uninhabited pit stalls. Logano called on Homestead to broaden Pit Road as part of potential renovation projects.
“I don’t want to hit anyone,” Logano said. “I don’t want it on my conscience. If you look (Homestead), it has happened there a lot. If they renovate, do all these things, if they can move the pit wall a little (to broaden the pit road) and maybe save someone’s life, pretty kind. It would be worth a few dollars if they could do it somehow. ‘
Joey Logano commented on SiriusXM Nascar Radio this week after being involved in a Pit Road incident last weekend on Homestead.
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.
The Pit Road at World Wide Technology Raceway – a cut that moves to the Cup playoffs for the first time this season – 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. According to Racing Insights, the Pit Road at Circuit of the Americas is 26 feet wide to stand third in the cup. Darlington Raceway and Martinsville Speedway are linked to fourth place. Both have pit roads that are 28 feet wide. Next is Homestead, Atlanta and Texas as 32 feet wide.
But it is more than the width of the pit road that can contribute to such incidents. With most of the field that is regularly on the lead shot and teams up under caution, Pit Road can be just as crowded as the traffic traffic and any contact can lead a car in a pit staff.
Christopher Bell earns his first Cup language of the season, while Hendrick Motorsports takes the following three places in the starting line -up.
Pit Stop Times also gets faster. It also affects what happens on Pit Road. Teams measure pit stop from the moment the car was renovated as the jack goes down to a four tire stop. Eight second pit stops become more frequent.
“The pit stop is all very close in the timing,” said William Byron, leader of the points. “Like an 8.5 (second stop) above the board is the best pit stop you can have, and then a 9.5 is like a middle of the road to a slow stop. So I think you just see a lot of aggression because the pit stop is so fast, and everyone gets some kind of clean – as you can have a decent or slow stop and that you can lose three or four places, because everyone in a real pile. “
With faster stops, teams can complete their work as cars get further back into the field in their stall. That’s what happened in Las Vegas two weeks ago.
Carson Hcevar made contact with Ty Gibbs and turned Gibbs’s car into his pit stall. Hcevar left his box when Gibbs turned around to enter his box just in front of the Hocevar stall.
“(Gibbs’) delayed (Ross Chastain), so we … accepted that he let us come in,” Hocvar said. ‘Based on SMT (data), (Gibbs) detected quite a bit and was faster in his box with a few kilometers per hour than he had all day. I don’t know if he is trying to knock us. I’m not really sure.
“We just looked at it, we made an aggressive call knowing that it would be near, but we thought it might be the difference in cycling to the front row, versus third or fourth.”
Ryan Blaney will look at Martinsville to end his line of the last three races.
The teammate of the Spire Motorsports, Michael McDowell, saw how the aggressiveness on Pit Road changed in his career.
McDowell, who made his cup debut in 2008, said: ‘If you see a man in the pit road down and you know it would be close, you would give a little room.
“From, if you leave and it was close, you would give a little space, because if you had a quick car, it would be spread, you would get the place back.
“Now, that’s not. Now, you just don’t give an inch because you don’t want to lose one place, which is why you see more of the action on Pit Road. Because you let the jack go, you have to go. It doesn’t matter if a car comes in or not, you have to go and no one is willing to give. This is why we see more incidents on Pit Road. ‘
