Monday Morning Pit Box: Strategy Winners, Losers at Sonoma
Some teams made the right pit calls at Sonoma, while others did not fare as well in Wine Country.
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.
Some teams made the right pit calls at Sonoma, while others did not fare as well in Wine Country.
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