Truck teams decide.....

[jhen713]

Do you want tires or fuel?
I just read that NASCAR is telling the truck teams that they can't take fuel and tires during the same pit stop. How crazy is this? Nascar is treating these teams like puppets. This season is starting to become a joke with all these strings NASCAR is attaching.

 

[MG1968]

I heard on a recent radio show that when the truck series first started, they didn't make any pit stops.

 

[jhen713]

I heard on a recent radio show that when the truck series first started, they didn't make any pit stops.

I'm not sure. I can't remember much about the trucks back when it started.. They are cutting back to only 5 guys over the wall. I think they can only have 12 team members travel with the team. If NASCAR wants to put limits on pit crews thats fine......but to tell the teams you have to choose between fuel and tires is crazy. Most of the time they only make 1 or 2 pit stops a race anyway. They are elimenating jobs(7 crew members to 5 members).I would say putting a limit on team members would make it harder for the smaller guy to get into the trucks and get a team going.

 

[DownNDirty]

There are only right now 12 fully funded Truck teams going into this year. Did you also see that they are going to make teams use the same engines two weeks in a row except on the plate tracks? It may be too late to save the Truck series in its current state but NASCAR is in panic mode and is at least trying.

Helping teams with this new engine thing as well as the new pit road rules and limiting team numbers in travel are all fine with me. When the series first started they did indeed not really have traditional pit stops. They had a "halftime" and stopped the Trucks for 10-15 minutes and let the crews make adjustments. This kept teams from having to have a pro pit crew and limited the number of tires used significantly helping to keep costs down.

This tires or fuel strategy will be interesting to see how crews handle this. It may seem stupid but having 15 trucks show up at California would be suicide for the series. I saw that with these new developments and people hearing of what was coming there may be 8 or 9 more trucks instantly because of this. A couple of brand new teams and a few teams going to run another Truck.

 

[jhen713]

There are only right now 12 fully funded Truck teams going into this year. Did you also see that they are going to make teams use the same engines two weeks in a row except on the plate tracks? It may be too late to save the Truck series in its current state but NASCAR is in panic mode and is at least trying.

Helping teams with this new engine thing as well as the new pit road rules and limiting team numbers in travel are all fine with me. When the series first started they did indeed not really have traditional pit stops. They had a "halftime" and stopped the Trucks for 10-15 minutes and let the crews make adjustments. This kept teams from having to have a pro pit crew and limited the number of tires used significantly helping to keep costs down.

This tires or fuel strategy will be interesting to see how crews handle this. It may seem stupid but having 15 trucks show up at California would be suicide for the series. I saw that with these new developments and people hearing of what was coming there may be 8 or 9 more trucks instantly because of this. A couple of brand new teams and a few teams going to run another Truck.

I hope your right. The competitive side of me says that this rule sucks. If I feel the need to take fuel and tires with only 5 guys that should be my decdision. NASCAR should be able to set the limits on people but they should stay the heck out of the pit boxes as far as I'm concerned.

 

[biga201]

First off the truck series when it first started had a halftime and did not make pit stops. How can you say that cutting team members would hurt the smaller teams, it think that it helps them because they are able to pick up some people that otherwise may have been out of a job.

 

[dantheman617]

NASCAR is ruining NASCAR if that makes any sense.

I do remember when the truck races first started. I do remember them not pitting I do believe. I also remember them racing on tracks that could fit in my back yard. They used to race on some crazy small tracks.

 

[jhen713]

First off the truck series when it first started had a halftime and did not make pit stops. How can you say that cutting team members would hurt the smaller teams, it think that it helps them because they are able to pick up some people that otherwise may have been out of a job.

I would think the more established teams would be more organized and could adjust to working with smaller crews easier. Also the bigger operations will have a techinical advantage. They will figure out how to get a few more laps on fuel or how to set the trucks up to save the tires. Like I said before.....If NASCAR wants to limit the personnel you can bring to the track thats fine with me. Just don't step into the pit boxes and limit what the teams can do. Do you not think that there could be safety issues with teams stretching tires or running out of gas in the middle of a pack? I just don't think it will create good racing.....which is what the trucks have always produced.