Monday Morning Pit Box: Tire Wear is Talk of the Town at Bristol
Tire management was a concern up and down pit road all day at the concrete half-mile at Bristol.
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.
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