A Dedication to Juan Pablo Montoya

[PRB]

This seems ridiculous. They are held to a rule, get penalized if they break it, but are not allowed a precise tool to let them know if they are within it. I was watching the Trackside show on Friday, and MacReynolds said they don’t even use the pace car method anymore to set the pit road speed. It’s 100% done by the engineers crunching gear ratio numbers. So the driver is pretty much out of the equation. They tell him to go until you see yellow lights on the tac (in the correct gear) and he has to hope the number crunchers got it right. I agree with Knauss, transmit the real time data to the pit crews so they can yell at their driver to speed up or slow down on pit road. Would be better to just send it to the cars so the drivers have something to go on besides a “calculated guess.”

 

[wombat666]

This seems ridiculous. They are held to a rule, get penalized if they break it, but are not allowed a precise tool to let them know if they are within it. I was watching the Trackside show on Friday, and MacReynolds said they don’t even use the pace car method anymore to set the pit road speed. It’s 100% done by the engineers crunching gear ratio numbers. So the driver is pretty much out of the equation. They tell him to go until you see yellow lights on the tac (in the correct gear) and he has to hope the number crunchers got it right. I agree with Knauss, transmit the real time data to the pit crews so they can yell at their driver to speed up or slow down on pit road. Would be better to just send it to the cars so the drivers have something to go on besides a “calculated guess.”

Simple solution, a mandatory pit speed limiter.
I'd even suggest one supplied by NASCAR from a common pool, but they'd stuff that up!
:isadizzy:

 

[Panther_99FS]

This seems ridiculous. They are held to a rule, get penalized if they break it, but are not allowed a precise tool to let them know if they are within it. I was watching the Trackside show on Friday, and MacReynolds said they don’t even use the pace car method anymore to set the pit road speed. It’s 100% done by the engineers crunching gear ratio numbers. So the driver is pretty much out of the equation. They tell him to go until you see yellow lights on the tac (in the correct gear) and he has to hope the number crunchers got it right. I agree with Knauss, transmit the real time data to the pit crews so they can yell at their driver to speed up or slow down on pit road. Would be better to just send it to the cars so the drivers have something to go on besides a “calculated guess.”<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

You wont' get a debate from me on this one......(perhaps maybe from EasyEd though )

 

[EasyEd]

Hey All,

What is there to argue with? Maybe crews on pit road need to do their own timing to figure out what the tach needs to say - maybe as a part of practice practice how to drive on pit road. Then therre is of course the disparity between NASCAR's exact timings in multiple segments on pit road and the crudeness (in terms of exactness) of the tach in a car but I suspect with no evidence that NASCAR might like it that way. It adds more excitement of the unknown - one second or two on pit road with an errant toe can cost you a race. And hey really is controversy really that bad? - people are talking and maybe more will be tuning into the next race. Who knows - be interesting to see how this plays out.

-Ed-