SEVEN Crew Members Suspended | Pit Stop Controversy | Talladega Preview
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What team actually holds the record for fastest NASCAR pit stop? The world may never know...
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0:00 Pit crew members suspended
3:31 Pit Stop Controversy
5:20 Talladega underdogs
I'm sorry, but "random spot checks for underwear" is pretty funny. LOL
My boss makes us wear our underwear on the outside of our pants so he can make sure they are clean.
Right?! 🤣 do they check them like they do the tires, scraping them off with a putty knife? 🤣🤣🤣
Well, lace panties are illegal in 3 countries (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan so you can verify my story), so you never know. It's a tough job, and there might be some profiling involved.
Larson had the fastest three tire stop
I laughed at this!
😂😅😂😅
We might be seeing the race for Talladega on Monday as the weather for Sunday does not look that good… hopefully weather improves
How do you let 3Chi be a sponsor, then ban a guy for using his teams sponsor. lol
The guy that got suspended was over the loud limit by NASCAR if there's even any allowed in your system on the weekend Just as you can't be drunk.
@@johnhaas2523 damn, that limit must have been pretty loud 😂🤣
We don't smoke our own product
I don’t remember them allowing Rusty Wallace to have few Miller Lites before a race. Even if the fans were guzzling it in the infield
Yea, poor logic here... and I'm not talking about NASCAR...
The more focus on the pit crews and pit stops the better!!! Pit statistics would be an awesome thing to keep track of each race!
So wait they can bust crew members. But can't call a restart jump...
Pit stops start when the car stops in the box and end when the jack drops, and the tires hit the ground on the left side. Howeer, it only counts if there's no tires coming off or anything like that.
I agree with both of your guys pick. But I’m just mainly pulling for the underdogs. Like a BJ MCLOUD,Justin Haley,Cody ware,Harrison Burton or a Ricky steenhouse or a Michael McDowell.
The one lug nut when it does works, servers a safty measure. Ever been on pit road with flying lug nuts as the cars take off, spinning the tires? Those things were like bullets flying as the cars ran over them.
I honestly kind of want a point standings on the fastest pit crews. Track it the same way you would with the regular season without stages and it might encourage teams to get good pit crews. Yeah, no one would probably care that much about it, but it would make pit stops have higher stakes.
Bring back pit crew championships
Bring back the pit crew challenge special
Lavar Scott, Austin Hill and Chris Buescher will be this weekend’s Talladega winners.
I hope Lavar gets the dub, he's electric on superspeedways.
I had a dream Buescher won 2 nights ago
I read this as “Lavar ball” LOL
I say Jessie Love for xfinity
@@WheelerMotorsports49nice guess man, you got it
I’m willing to bet the NASCAR crew crackdown is a safety reaction to the fire on pit road…
Yup, this was my thought too.
And one of those things where an organization cracks down hard all at once to send the message for everyone to immediately get their act together “or else.” But also carries a bit of a whiff of “…cause we don’t want to have to monitor this stuff that closely moving forward.”
What fire ?
@@NicholasHarkins-mu6mlthe fire that was shown full-screen during the green flag stops
I miss Stock car racing, these cookie cutter Matchbox cars with different car make stickers . I liked when you could actually tell the make of a car before ever getting up close to them.
I've got news for you You can put all three manufacturers together with no stickers and I can tell you what You're going to see a difference in the body styling You're f****** uneducated f****** clown You keep thinking it's just like the COT with stickers it's not Because the manufacturers want brand identity That's why the COT ended when it did
@@johnhaas2523 The language is strong but you sure ain't wrong 👍
@@johnhaas2523why are you so fucking toxic bro just chill 😂
@@johnhaas2523 hmmmm I would argue to which of us is uneducated. To be fair being crass isn’t just for the uneducated, some just can’t help it. I do hate that my opinion of something triggered you so. Maybe it was growing up around Davey Allison and being around his family made me appreciate the car bodies of the 80s thru the early 2000s. And the style of racing it brought. By all means enjoy this eras racing. I do hope you feel a little less triggered by me properly explaining what “I” enjoyed. Have a nice day.
Johnhaas2523, dude what is your problem? Are you one of those snowflakes who have no tolerance for a different opinion? Do you get your ass kicked a lot? 😂😂😂
Unsure what the true reason was for switching to a single lug nut but it seems like more tires fall off now than before.so if safety was a reason then I think it’s a fail. I also really miss the sound of high rpm impact guns.
It's because the manufacturers wanted 18 in wheels and they had to go to aluminum because of the weight and you couldn't do five lug nuts safely with aluminum wheels that big on a race car
It was actually because NASCAR themselves wanted to swap to the 18” wheels for cosmetic reasons and in order to do that, they had to switch to a single lug system because 18” aluminum with 5 lugs wasn’t strong enough and 18” steel wheels were way too heavy. TLDR: NASCAR switched it solely for appearance reasons
Good God I’ve seen a lot of fights on pit row and in the pits through the years
Bubba Wallace and Tyler Reddick when none of their pit crew team is suspended. “It’s not fair! It should have been me!”
I wish they would use a clear metric for timing pit stops. My opinion: start the clock when the vehicle first crosses into the box, and stop the clock when the car exits the box. I feel like this would offer much better clear problems that may have happened on pit road that may not have been caught in the moment. Slid through your box? Had to back up to get out of your box? Those kinds of things would show up then and be easier to seek out for analysis. You could also start when the first crew member touches the car, and stops when the last crew member releases the car.
I like what you said, something like the first move over the wall is the start time and when the car leaves the box end it.
During a race... It's usually timed from when a car crosses the pit road entrance line to the exit line.
F1 does both stationary car time/car in box time & full pitlane transit time so the teams have both metrics to analyse.
pit stop timer starts when the jack posts on the right ride and stops when it drops the left side. that will only judge the crew though. if you time it from car entry into and out of the pit box it will be the combination of driver and pit crew. for a pit stop, in my opinion, its a combination of the whole team, so much goes into getting these cars/trucks serviced in as few seconds as possible. and thats my 2 cents
Yeah based on the weather forecasts I’ve seen it looks like the Xfinity and Cup series will have a Monday doubleheader but hopefully the weather can stay away
Also, I think the new exhaust configureation sounds MUCH better!!!
That’s a lot of Pit Crew Members!
I remember going to 2001 Richmond race. Ball caps during pit stops.
I miss older bigger cars, and the tires that gave way faster. I know Goodyear is working on it. People complain about short track racing, but if watch the old Bristol races they ran nose to tail. A train. They changed the track, Florida they changed the track. Now they put that grip stuff on the track. So the car is different but it races the same, competition wise. So far the big change I think is the tire. Tires need to change. My opinion.
Don’t sleep on Brad K this weekend. RFK has a great SS package. lol package :)
No they don't lol.
Wheels don't fall off in Xfinity, I wonder why that is.
I think it's because a genius designed those logs on Xfinity and not a single lug on NASCAR next gen piece of s***
Wheels also don’t fall off in IMSA, I wonder why that is
With a steel wheel... You don't have to worry about over torquing a wheel! With an aluminum wheel, you do! If you over torque an aluminum wheel, it will crack!
I want to know thoughts on my top two favorite drivers being Chase Briscoe and Ross Chastain
An easy fix to this is make the stop from when the front of the car hits the back of the box to the time the car hits the front of the box
It was true the RFK pit member had webbed gloves on so he could move faster through the air when Joey was caught he was testing for RFK to see if they would improve their pit stops 😂
S-O tired of gambling infiltrating EVERY aspect of American sports. Can’t we just enjoy viewing the races?!? If you want to lose money gambling on something you have NO control over, fine. I would prefer to gable/bet on something I’m participating in, eg shooting pool. It’s my ability vs the other guy’s ability.
Last year Formula 1 cracked down on jewelry and piercings drivers could wear under their fire suits . I really LOL'd when a certain Mercedes driver told F1 he would need an exemption cuz he had a piercing that could not be removed. lol.
Yup I remember that
Wasn't that Lewis Hamilton?
@@ernestscott9244 yep
One the most watchable segments of fox is the pit crew members and if thats the only way to pass it’s probably good to show them off
Forgot having 1 lug for the wheel... There should be at least 10!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Historically pit time is measured as "time the car is stopped in the pit stall". However this has seemed to be changing to "first touch to last touch" of the pit crew. It's very hard to accurately time because there isn't a system to time it.
Nascar hands out swift penalties pit crew members screwing up or not wearing the official equipment properly, but they ignore Denny Hamlin jumping the restart by 20 feet. This just makes their officiating look even worse for what they did at richmond
That top 10 parlay on DraftKings is great information thank you. Michael McDowell isn’t a sleeper if he’s up front in every drafting track duh. That’s why your guest didn’t use him. He knows parameters
If you think that the Penalties are too serious for protective equipment violations you just need to look at Romain Grosjean’s car fire in F1 back in 2020 at the Bahrain Grand Prix that year or what happened to Gerhard Berger at Imola during the 1989 San Marino Grand Prix. In both cases their cars caught fire and both drivers got burns even though they were wearing the proper fire resistant overalls and undergarments of the particular time period. So NASCAR has to take individuals wearing the proper protective equipment very seriously. And this is before we even get to the risks of head injuries for individuals who work on pit road. I mean just look at what happened at Homestead-Miami Speedway during the 2001 Pennzoil Freedom 400. You can hear commentator Benny Parsons yelling into his microphone whilst this was happening. Here is the video here; m.kzhead.info/sun/fNeQh6xwhpSPe58/bejne.html. It happens at the 1:55 mark. So as you can see this is no joke.
I feel the pit stop timer should start from when the car enters the alotted zones to drive through for pit box entry (so as to add driver aspect, but also make it a direct "scoring line" to start the clock), and end the timer should stop when the car leaves the alotted drive off space. It may very well add a second or 2 or tenths, thats fine. Its a difinitive scoring loop to start and stop from. You could also say, the moment the pit crew is allowed to jump over the wall, to the time the car is dropped off the jack, but allows room for error of pit crew jumping over too early, or peaving an issue with a wheel not being tight and driver needing to back up and/or jack the car up again
I don’t understand why the 2L if you’re going to hit them hard later as well.
I was on the 10th row at Texas when larsons wheel fell off it was hilarious
Wish I could've gotten a better look. Was over in the upper section towards Turn 4. My dad and I probably would've seen it had it not been for this quartet of drunken idiots who wouldn't sit down for about 80% of the race. Wouldn't be surprised to learn they got busted for DUI after the race with how many Miller Lites they were pounding back.
I normally agree with you on most things but pit stops have always been where races or won and lost yes they are much faster now, but have way more wheels failing off. Which is better a faster stop or tires staying on? I feel like they are trying to go so fast the jackman can’t possibly watch both tires and have those numbers. I get we had tires come off with the five lug system but this one lug system could be overhauled example many gun and lug issues and of course human error
Yeah if teams were able to use their own gun instead of a gun supplied by NASCAR which is junk like the car they probably wouldn't have as many problems and I'm sure there could be a better design for this one lug I don't see too many F1 cars Wheels fall off NASCAR happens all the time ruins a good race😢
I think fastest pit stop was supposed to be when the car stops in their pit box or when the crew jumps over the wall to service the car, to the dropping the clutch and accelerating out the pit box. IDK if that is a standard metric used though. IndyCar and F1 have a metric for pit stops, along with many other series.
“The only way to gain positions is on pit road…” I see you pointed out SHR strategy because no one can drive there.
Yeah there is no racing on the track it's who gets in and out of the pits and has the number one pit stall that has the biggest advantage great s*** show NASCAR I'm loving it could it get any boring😅
Shouldn't Ty Gibbs have been penalized for taking equipment out of the pit box considering he left with part of the airgun still attached to his car? Does it seam like the Gibbs teams been getting alot of free passes lately?
He was penalized for equipment violation That's an in-race penalty
@@johnhaas2523 No he wasn't.
Eric. I often wonder about what type/configuration NASCAR engines are. Obviously they are all V-8. But are they all still pushrod V-8s. Toyota would have had to develope their own pushrod motors I believe. Please tell me American manufacturers are still running traditional pushrod V8s! Thanks in advance, Randy
I never liked the ideas of 1 lug nut wheel and after all these races under it belt. I still hate it.
I will add, the idea is cool. But how you separate parts failure or crew failure. Still haven’t seen a case when it been said it’s parts failure. Pit crew are getting the the short end of the stick with this one
Good thing nobody asked your opinion Because there was no choice since the manufacturers wanted 18 in wheels
@johnhaas2523 nobody asked yours either you f****** bozo
@johnhaas Are you saying they can't use a 5 lug wheel because of the 18 in dia? It's strange that the rest of the world can. I would like to see them go back to the 4 way lug wrench, then everyone would be even again, of course there wouldn't be many 10 sec pit stops, or more gas only.
I think a cool incentive for pit crews could be who ever has the fastest stop of the race can earn 1 playoff point towards driver/owner standings
from the moment that car stopped until the Jack let down on after both side are done.
You could time it with the Jack. There’s ways you could set something up.
The one lug wheel doesn't work, also what production car can you buy with the one lug system
Damn near every other race car in the world is a single lug.
Spot on Eric, the pits are awesome for the last couple years.
Formula 1 counts the stop as the time where the car's wheels aren't turning. The current record is just over two seconds for four tires, but they have a crew for each corner, and a jack man on both the front and back.
Nice vid. I fk with the lack of hating. Been super annoyed with the fact that everyoner seems to think that criticism is a requirement to use the gd internet
I thought that man was wearing a Dale jr suit for a second, not a jacket and I wanted to know where to get it
It's not a good thing when the pit crew decides races more often than the drivers do because of how difficult NASCAR has made passing, which as a racing brand seems like the opposite of what you'd be aiming for...
OK then I did not realize I thought I knew Kyle Bush or Kyle Larson Kyle Larson in the five car Eric motorsport number five race car at Texas. When the tire fell off or came off the car, I thought a pic remember would be spending including the crew, chief would be suspended, but, OK then I did not realize because I knew there was live action going around Pitt Road at Texas
So how do you suspend two pit crew members for a wheel coming off after the car went 15 laps then It fell off? The one lug is absolute garbage and needs to go it has been a problem since they went to that one lug 💩
How is 1 lug absolute garbage in Cup when it works in literally every other major motorsports series in the world? Your answer is....the crews. These are literally the fastest pit stops being accomplished with 1 lug (that don't have 3 people focusing on one wheel). The crews are to blame for this. Its a speed vs safety deal. The teams car ensure the cars have all 4 tight but at yhe expense of hundreths of a second on pit road. Its a balance but its NOT the lug or design fault.
A one off instance means nothing the other wheels didn't fall off.. stupid comment
@@ba97racingthank you finally a common sense answer.
@ba97racing Exactly. In almost all of the other motorsports with 1 lug (Imsa/Wec, Indycar, etc...) they all have to wait for fuel during pit stops. This results in them not being as pressed to change the tires quickly and it results in less tires falling off.
Doesn’t matter if it went 100 laps or 100’ if the lug came off its 100% on the changer of that corner. When properly seated and tightened no lug nut should come off whether it be 1 lug or 5 regardless of being on a racecar or a daily driver.
Matt Kenneth’s pit crew from back in the #17 Dewalt days was the best pit crew of all time … in my opinion of course.
Yeah, never heard of SFI certification. I'd want my crew and driver in FIA certified gear. Romain Grosjean still alive, because of the gear.
SFI was an offshoot of SEMA, it was set up by drag racers in the '60s because getting burned alive in invisible flames wasn't any more fun for them that it was for F1 drivers.
Chastain is the "Melon Man" Your gambling guest is the "Mullet Man"
I am not sure I really agree with suspension after a wheel comes off. There’s been more wheels coming off during the Next Gen era than the last fifty years or more (according to one post on X). That says to me there’s an engineering design flaw more than a flaw with the tire changers.
Really merrily insted of merly oversights
The millisecond the car stops, starts the clock and the millisecond the car accelerates the clock stops
Bubba for the win, or another Top 5!
I have said it over and over but nascar is the AEW of motorsports
Where does someone find a neck tie to match their number 8 jacket ?
Now that's a Mullet 😊😊😊😊😊
The next gen pretty much envoked the same feeling people got when they saw Jackson Storm beat McQueen.
Love your show. The most equality is who can cheat the most and get away with it. Along with that, who NASCAR favors. $$$$ As far as "records" go, HMS has the best cheat record, starting with Jeff Gordon.
Why was there an interview with Rosie O'Donnell halfway through?
Maybe make the fuel take 25 seconds to fill, the loose lugs would definitely decrease
So absolutely nothing for ty Gibbs riding around with a socket on his wheel
That's equipment leaving the pit box, and was dealt with in the race.
@@mpf1947 it was when
@@mpf1947 No. It wasn't
Any talk about sports book earns a thumbs down from me.
Same. Every sport has jumped on this and I hate it. I don't give a shit about odds and top picks. I'm disappointed how much Nascar has let sports betting take over
I still miss the 5 lugs :(
Who gives a f*** about what it sounds like to change one or five lug nuts
It’s a shame the number 2 needs a new driver and the 21
Why my favorite driver christopher bell pit crew member is suspended for a race
Cory is a never will be. Wake up
Not sure how Noah Gregson, Eric Johns, or even Corry LaJoy got I nto the list of potential Talladega winners here... or any others... (besides, maybe, Chase Briscoe).
If NASCAR is going to suspend crew members for safety equipment failures then why was Joey not suspended when he wore the unsafe cheated up gloves? Double standards on NASCAR’s part once again!
He got in trouble for modified and no longer certified gloves not Because he didn't have safety equipment
@@johnhaas2523 BS, John. The crew guys had safety equipment too. There was just something Nascar didn't like about it. And the crew guys got suspended, not just fined, like Joey.
Can we, the fans, give all Asscar executives a one-race suspension for their inability to put on a short track race? 2024, and they still can't figure it out....
Can you figure it out since you know apparently?? You wouldn't know jack about fixing the racing
@@truckercowboyed2638 I'd have the racing figured out in one week: remove all aero crap; 8-inch tires; eliminate bump stops; 900hp; zero side skirts; maximum 3" spoiler; eliminate side window; eliminate spotters .... there. Fixed. Anything else?
@@brycecrousore1985 you had me up until you said 'eliminate spotters'....why?
@@iamdeadinside420 If drivers need a mother-in-law telling them where to go, they shouldn't be driving. Dirt late models/modifieds ... some of the best side-by-side racing you'll ever see: zero spotters.
@@brycecrousore1985 The spotters are there because of the limited vision the drivers have in those cars. It’s literally for safety and you’re endangering them. Your case in invalid.
Its real wet here in Alabama
I still think that some of those lug nuts are faulty.
F1 has the record of them all. 1.8!
Glad the lost wheel penalty is not aimed at the crew chief for a month! Terrible penalty.
Hi Eric Estepp! How are You Doing Today?
I'm good, hope you're doing well
@@EricEstepp I’m Doing Great! I’m Glad to Hear You’re doing well! 😁👍
Why the hell did the jack man get suspended?
ye its diffrent motorsports but nascar compared to f1 is actually very big and crazy (yes i get nascar dosent have enough crew like f1)
This is the last year for NASCAR The single log nut is a complete failure..
Well at least we now know why RCR pitstop are garbage... their crew members are servicing the vehicles while high 😆 EDIT: That 3chi sponsorship is getting a lot of good use too
that’s Kyle’s crew that was ass maybe they should’ve been on that 3chi like the 3 team
Kind of annoying how most of the actual video, Is a clip of a video you posted a few hours before this one…what’s the point???
😂😂😂 I was like Da-Ja-Voo or did I click the same video
Once again. Right off the hop. I disagree. 5 lug nuts lets the teams use strategy and skill.. and 1 lug nut is its own challenge yes. But if the car on track is poor and we only make spots in the pits.. then we need a bigger window of mistakes......
Five lug nuts does not work with 18-in aluminum wheels on a race car and that's what size the manufacturers want so you can't complain about it Because NASCAR and the manufacturer said so
What is for sure 23XI doesn’t have the record 🤣
This guy was on Channel 5 Talladega coverage
Asking to see buttholes right?
Yeah but on superspeedways the gas man is the most important guy on the track
Spotters pretty valuable
Why did Toyotas have more loose wheels? Larson had 1 but it was later.
The unsafe single lug wheel needs to go...but it woi
It's not on safe at all
@@johnhaas2523 on a five-lug wheel few lugs on a tire can be loose or missing and the tire wobbles and they come to pit road. A single lug gets loose and the entire wheel leaves the car.
@@MonteD1Now go check out how much the rest of the motorsports world uses a single lug and don’t have this issue.
not goona state the obvious way to do times.. cause nascar seems to not know what a line is for except for their own convianance... but... 8.5-9 seconds. thats pretty fast four a four tire stop. obviously not waiting on fuel when those happen tho.
So now we have for lack of better words a NASCAR Gestapo, evidently NASCAR needs a little extra Cash on the side to pay for the new TV package, and they have to meet some kind of quota possibly per month?
Nice f****** joke because the penalties go to the foundation that goes to charity
@@johnhaas2523 does NASCAR advertise those charities and where is this money going to?
Just a comment on the Joey Logano violation. Dear Joey. If you're gonna cheat, INSIDE THE CAR, don't do it when the camera is on!!!
Pls allow the races to be interesting - again. Cookie cutter cars, drivers encouraged to have ho-hum (don't stir up any controversy by complaining about racing rules) personalities, pit crew members inspected by forensic science specialists. Come on - let'em race.