NASCAR: " State of the Sport "

[Joe Wicked]

Originally Posted by Don

Joe:

The tires not being able to be rolled freely, I don't really understand.

Appears to be a safety issue, preventing the tires from leaving the pit box , which has occurred. When the pit crew chases the tire, subject to being hit by another race car

Ron & Joe:

Not sure, but Toyota assembles all their engines at the CA facility and then the engines are shipped to the race Teams ?

The tires that rolled free are from sitting them down and finishing the stop before going around. They let go of the tire too quickly and it rolls. Rolling back to the pit wall doesn't go free. I am still looking for more information on it. If it is a case where they can't sit it down, but as soon as it is off, must be carried back, that is different, but say good bye to sub 20 second pit stops. We might as well go back to the pitstops of having a beer in one hand and a tire wrench in the other. There will be lots of people trapped laps down because of caution flags. I will have to take some time this weekend to look up the actual rule changes to get more than the condensed version, so i understand what the change really is.