Actually Junior has had speeding penalties, in fact I'm pretty sure he had one early this year ruin a rather good run. However, this is exactly why Nascar needs to have the pitroad sensor & speed information openly available.
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Actually Junior has had speeding penalties, in fact I'm pretty sure he had one early this year ruin a rather good run. However, this is exactly why Nascar needs to have the pitroad sensor & speed information openly available.
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar...rry&id=4357511Quote:
After the race, Sprint Cup director John Darby had the specifics about Montoya's double no-no.
Pit road has eight zones where the speed is measured. The speed limit in the pits at Indy is 55 mph. NASCAR gives the drivers a 5 mph cushion.
Darby said Montoya was caught over the cushion in Zones 2 and 4. Officially, the speed was recorded at 60.06 mph in Zone 2 and 60.11 mph in Zone 4.
"And he was already pushing it," Darby said. "He was over 59 miles per hour in most of the other zones."
MD24, again it comes back to selective enforcement. Unless they release a list of the pit in speeds of all the drivers, I'm going to be cynical and say they had many other opportunities to nab drivers yesterday, and they did not do that. That being said, Juan did not need to gamble with speeds that cut it that close to the speed limiter with the lead he had. Which is also why I tend to believe him when he said he had all green lights on his dash, he didn't think he was pushing it.
I'll let you in on a little secret about tachometers. They're not always accurate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wade91
well, you probably have a point there, i think when nascar made the COT car, one of the changes should have to put speedomerters in the cars,Quote:
Originally Posted by call_me_andrew
on a nascar on fox pre-race show eaileyer this year, a someone sent in a question asking why the cars dont have speedometers and the comitators said that it would be possable these days, but the teams are already so used to useing the tachometers,
i think speedometers would be alot easyer to use though :s
You guys are DREAMING if you think Juan got selectively screwed. We had this same argument on the thread when Edwards got nailed 3 times in one night. I wont go into again how they measure this stuff, but Juan was on the edge and went a hair too fast. Speed limit is 55mph and they give you 5 mph grace so gettin nailed doing 60.11 sucks but that is the rule.
It is a skill, just like handling a bad handling race car is a SKILL.
Believe me, nothing would make things look good for NASCAR more than having Juan win this race to be the only man to win this race AND the Indy 500.
The panel on NASCAR Now tonight discussed this situation at length. As Ray and Rusty explained it the driver himself sets the tolerances on his tach based on the pace car speed during parade laps. There's a four light panel on the tach with yellow on the bottom, two greens in the middle and red on top. If the driver sets the yellow light at a speed too close to the pit road speed the top green light will be off enough to push it beyond the 5 mph grace NASCAR allows. I was under the impression that the crew or car chief did the RPM calculations for the driver based on rear-end gear ratios so I learned something watching NASCAR Now. I guess it's true that old dogs can learn new stuff now and then. :D
The Panel on SPEED's NASCAR show explained exactly the same thing, and Mikey Waltrip and Biffle both were right on the money when they said their scoring monitor for pit row is available and they can watch NASCAR's monitoring the speeds in each segment. I suspect that feed of that monitor is available to any of the teams along with the regular scoring monitor. It isn't selective enforcement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparky1329
Montoya was making time in the pits entering and exiting. I think NASCAR was seeing the TV information showing he was making 2+ second on people like Stewart and others. They probably cut him some slack and then had to do something. Not saying it's right but 60.11 or 60.001. He was speeding.
Speedometers are even less reliable. To use a mechanical cable gauge, the gauge would have to be calibrated to read up to 150% of the car's expected cruising speed. And an electric gauge with a hall-effect or permanent magnet sensor could be used to create a traction control system.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wade91