Clint Bowyer's No. 33 RCR crew nabs Tissot award for Phoenix race
Clint Bowyer’s Richard Childress Racing crew won the Tissot Pit Road Precision Award for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.
It is the third Tissot win of the season for Bowyer’s crew and the second straight for a RCR team. Kevin Harvick’s No. 29 crew captured the Tissot win a week earlier at Texas Motor Speedway.
Bowyer’s Chevrolet spent the least amount of time on pit road (170.217 seconds) during the race at PIR. The quick pit work helped the Kansas native to a seventh-place finish.
Bowyer's over-the-wall crew, which earned $5,000 for the win, consists of Jason Pulver (front-tire changer), Austin Craven (front-tire carrier), Dustin Niecaise (rear-tire changer), Matt Kreuter (rear-tire carrier), Nick Terry (jackman), Bryan Smith (gasman), Chad Haney (catch can) and Scott Brewer (eighth man). The crew chief is Shane Wilson.
With only Sunday’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway remaining in the 2009 season, the Roush Fenway Racing crew of Greg Biffle and Hendrick Motorsports crew of Jeff Gordon are the only teams in contention to capture the program’s season championship. Biffle’s crew leads the competition with six wins, while Gordon’s team is second with five wins.
If there’s a tie in the Tissot competition, the team which finishes the highest in the Sprint Cup driver point standings will be awarded the Tissot season title.
