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Pit Road Explained: Adjustments

This is the seventh and final post in the series Pit Road Explained.  The series breaks down all that is pit road.  Have a suggestion or question?  Email me! First off, I’d like to apologize for this post being delayed.  An internet outage and a busy racing weekend were the contributing factors.  But I’m back and [...]

Pit Road Explained: Tape Marks

This is the sixth post in the series Pit Road Explained.  The series breaks down all that is pit road.  Have a suggestion or question?  Email me! Colored duct tape; what an amazing product.  We love this stuff.  We use it for everything.  And since we use it for everything, I thought it was appropriate to [...]

Pit Road Explained: Reader Question

This is the fifth post in the series Pit Road Explained.  The series breaks down all that is pit road.  Have a suggestion or question?  Email me! Before I write my regular post later, I figured I’d answer a reader question.  Nahum Olin asks: Why do you have the pit gun hose divided in two? I mean, [...]

Pit Road Explained: Pit Boxes

This is the fourth post in the series Pit Road Explained.  The series breaks down all that is pit road.  Have a suggestion or question?  Email me! I don’t know how many people pay enough attention to notice (maybe more then I realize) but have you seen how big the Cup Series pit boxes have gotten [...]

Pit Road Explained: Rules

This is the third post in the series Pit Road Explained.  The series breaks down all that is pit road.  Have a suggestion or question?  Email me! NASCAR has a lot of rules for every aspect of the sport.  They do all they can to ensure that competition is even for everyone.  Pit road is no [...]

Pit Road Explained: Tools of the Trade

This is the second post in the series Pit Road Explained.  The series breaks down all that is pit road.  Have a suggestion or question?  Email me! A major part of the evolution of the pit stop over the years have been the innovations made in the tools we use.  Things have come a long [...]

Pit Road Explained: Gluing Lugnuts

As a crew member, I get asked a lot of questions by fans when I’m at the race track.  I love answering questions because any chance to help somebody understand better what goes on is cool for me.  I realized though that fans are asking a lot of the same questions from week to week.  And that makes [...]