Sunday Morning Pit Box: Toyota’s Terrible Night on Pit Road at Richmond
From speeding penalties to loose wheels, anything that could go wrong on pit road went wrong for Toyota teams.
Andrew Stoddard joined Frontstretch in May of 2022 as an iRacing contributor. He is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond, and VCU. He works as an athletic communications specialist at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.
From speeding penalties to loose wheels, anything that could go wrong on pit road went wrong for Toyota teams.
After recent run-ins, whose reputation is worse?
There were plenty of pit road plotlines unfolding behind Shane van Gisbergen’s dominant performance.
Teams up and down pit road went in several different directions with their pit calls in the Cup Series’ second trip to Iowa.
Meanwhile, a loose wheel undid Erik Jones’ day in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis on Sunday.
Toyota drivers make up the entirety of the top five, with Bubba Wallace joining Briscoe on the front row.
Ty Dillon and Ty Gibbs will race for $1 million and the inaugural in-season title in the Brickyard 400 next weekend.
The two are separated by just seven points for the 12th and final playoff spot heading into Indianapolis.