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NASCAR tweaks fueling rule for Truck series
By Bob Pockrass - Associate Editor
Saturday, February 21, 2009
FONTANA, Calif. – NASCAR has tweaked the pit-stop rules for Camping World Truck Series teams as it will force them to use one crewman to fuel the car instead of giving them option of using two crewmen.
NASCAR instituted a rule this year that allowed only five crewmen over the wall on a pit stop, and a team can no longer change tires and fuel the car on the same stop.
In the past, when teams were allowed to change tires and fuel the car on the same stop with a limit of seven crew members, teams would use five crewmen to change tires, one to fuel the car and one to hold the catch can for fuel overflow.
But with the new rule, some teams last week used two crewmen to fuel the car at Daytona International Speedway since they had an extra person available and it takes two gas cans of fuel to fill the tank. When one can was emptied, the first fuel man would move away from the car and the second crewman would be standing by with another gas can to finish the fueling.
Tweaking the rule this week, NASCAR will allow only one crewman to fuel the car, so teams will have to go back to the original method of the fuel man handing the empty gas can to a crew member across the pit wall and have the second gas can given to him to finish fueling the car.
NASCAR announced the rule change during the prerace drivers meeting Saturday morning at Auto Club Speedway in California.
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Michael Daly said:
Feb 21, 2009 at 1:24 PMWhat does NASCAR think it is accomplishing here?
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBernadette Motherway said:
Feb 21, 2009 at 1:46 PMThey're going to tweak the rules? Now someone will make an honest mistake and will probably get penalized and fined!!! Good grief, NASCAR, leave it alone!!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBryan Harris said:
Feb 21, 2009 at 2:45 PMI can't believe NASCAR is doing this!!! I understand the need for 5 crew members from a finicial point of view, but why not let the teams use the manpower they have to decrease the time spent on pit road.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportThomas M McHugh SR said:
Feb 21, 2009 at 5:36 PMIf NASCAR does much more to handicap the smaller teams & make racing less interesting, more Sponsors are going to bail out.
Report as AbusePretty soon NASCAR should just list who is the winner on Thursday & Drivers not on the list can stay home.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportCliff Cherry said:
Feb 21, 2009 at 7:36 PMAs a gasman in the Camping World Series East, I think this is a good rule. We were allowed to do the "two fueler" thing last year, and while it's a great idea that saves time, it does present a more dangerous situation as you have two people standing on pit road with fuel cans. Not so bad in CWSE, where you rarely have every single car coming in at once, but in the Big 3 the congestion makes for the real potential for a bad situation.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner Boehmert said:
Feb 21, 2009 at 7:38 PMit didn't work so well today with the doouble pit stops under yellow...i assume they will allow a catchcan man also?...other than the gas deal it did work ok today...anyone watch the race?...
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» Confirm Abuse ReportKyle O said:
Feb 21, 2009 at 8:17 PMNASCAR. Your going to ruin the truck series!! Why mess with something that is not broken? The 5 crew member was one thing, but this is just plain stupid.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportJohn McHugh said:
Feb 21, 2009 at 8:46 PM35 laps until the tires blow out, 50 laps til their out of gas. Nascar could reduce the races to 50 laps each class and run all three in 1 day. Then nobody has to go over the wall because there wont be any pit stops. Get ready for triple the ticket prices for 1 day of racing and three days of concerts and all the other BS.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner Boehmert said:
Feb 21, 2009 at 8:56 PMremember when the truck series had competition yellows?...
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» Confirm Abuse ReportRonald Schwalbe said:
Mar 1, 2009 at 5:25 PMIf NASCAR is so worried about too many men on pit road -get rid of the EIGHTY SIX Pillsbury Dough Boy officials that are all OVER the place just HOPING to find ANYTHING "wrong" !!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportSam Steadman said:
Mar 3, 2009 at 12:09 PMWhat braintrust keeps coming up with these idiotic rules? Maybe NASCAR could come up with a celebrity jack man for each team for each race. That might be worth watching.
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