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Atlanta’s pit street offers key problem for NASCAR Cup drivers
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Atlanta’s pit street offers key problem for NASCAR Cup drivers

By Miles Cooper February 23, 2025
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HAMPTON, Ga. — Pit street might show pivotal in right now’s Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

There have been quite a few incidents on pit street with automobiles making contact and a number of other rushing penalties final yr at Atlanta.

Not less than half a dozen drivers had some contact on pit street in final yr’s playoff race.

“I undoubtedly assume, particularly because it continues, we’re most likely going to wish just a little bit one thing totally different of a pit street sooner or later,” Carson Hocevar stated. “Simply wider. The bins are small and it’s tight, so if they may in some way make it wider in some way, I believe, it might be an even bigger deal.

“On the identical time, all of us must determine it out, too. They don’t have to vary it. … The one fear is that there’s crew guys out on pit street that issues get actually tight.”

Atlanta’s pit street offers key problem for NASCAR Cup drivers

The problem is that it’s such a penalty to pit below inexperienced — pit street entrance is in Flip 3 as an alternative of off Flip 4 — that the sector will wait to pit below warning if doable. With pack racing, few automobiles are off the lead lap, that means when pit street opens for the primary time it’s prone to have greater than 30 automobiles head to the pits.

The 1.54-mile observe produced the closest three-wide end in NASCAR historical past a yr in the past.

With automobiles getting into and exiting their stalls, that may create contact.

“You watch movies again on this place and there was lots of people that had contact on pit street,” Chris Buescher stated. “It does get actually tight right here. It’s a superspeedway now in numerous methods. It’s like Daytona, all of us come down on the identical time, very shut collectively. This pit street is extremely small in comparison with Daytona.

“(Pit) field is small. Pit street is basically slim. Sure, we’ve got an exit via the grass. I raced Legends automobiles round right here rather a lot rising up and spent most likely an unlucky period of time in that grass. I can let you know it’s not clean, both. It’s an escape however you actually don’t wish to be there. The whole lot is tighter right here for pit street.”

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One other subject are the pit street rushing penalties. There have been 10 in final yr’s playoff race and 14 in final February’s race. These had been the 2 highest whole of pit street rushing penalties final season in Cup.

Underneath inexperienced flag situations, the pit street pace restrict is 90 mph from the doorway of Flip 3 via Flip 4 on the apron. As soon as drivers get to pit street — marked by a yellow line — the pace restrict is 45 mph.

Underneath yellow flag situations, pit street pace is 45 mph from when groups enter the lane on the entrance of Flip 3.

Groups are warned that in the event that they minimize the radius an excessive amount of on the apron in Turns 3 and 4 that may trigger them to exceed the pace restrict for these zones.

“It’s a tough pit street,” Alex Bowman stated. “The straight a part of pit street is tremendous bumpy, so it’s arduous to carry your lights (gauging pit street pace).”

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