Monday Morning Pit Box: Tire Management Takes Over Bristol Night Race
Issues entering pit road cost Ty Gibbs a chance to contend for his first career Cup Series win.
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Issues entering pit road cost Ty Gibbs a chance to contend for his first career Cup Series win.
Tyler Reddick and Shane van Gisbergen also had pit road issues at Gateway.
On a night that called for precise pit road execution, several playoff pit crews fell short of that expectation.
John Hunter Nemechek’s fuel man fell over the team’s pit line, taking the fuel can with him on their last stop of the night.
Is it San Diego? The All-Star Race? Something else?
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.