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Pit Crew Challenge
For the past few weeks all the teams that are eligible for the pit crew competition have been over to the facility to set a time for there qualifying position. Each team did 3 stops, you took the best of your three and that is your qualifying time. All the qualifying does is help set the order of who you will go up against Monday night in the competition. Our teams over here at Penske Racing qualified like this: 2car-24th, 12car-2nd, 77car-21st. There are a total of 40 team in the competition. 30 cup teams and 10 busch. The Challenge will be this Monday night in Mooresville at the PIT Facility. It should be a pretty cool deal. They have stands set up on the pit road area so that fans can see what happens up close during a pit stop. In order to win the whole thing you have to win four rounds. After each round they eliminate teams. The winner of the competition gets 200,000 dollars. Its more for bragging rights than money. You want to be the best on pit road and this is one way to prove it. I'll let everyone know on Tuesday how the teams did.
May 5, 2005 in Race week | Permalink
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Trent,
Good luck. If you win you get 200k to split and I'm sure all the Miller Lite you and the boys can drink!!!!
Posted by: Cliff Wahl | May 5, 2005 9:21:58 AM
Way to go 12 crew, now go kick some ass!
Posted by: Shane | May 5, 2005 10:31:31 AM
Good like, guys! (psst.....I bet the #8 crew would pay y'all a hell of a lot more than $200k for your secrets!)
Posted by: Sara | May 5, 2005 11:07:19 AM
D'OH! Luck, good LUCK! )Man, do I need to learn how to type!)
Posted by: Sara | May 5, 2005 11:07:57 AM
Trent, did the Roush teams enter? You said they weren't going to because Jack didn't feel it worthwhile or something. I hope he changed his mind on that one!
Good luck!
Posted by: Doug | May 5, 2005 12:59:55 PM
To make the pit stop competition as realistic as possible, during the bonus round of pit stops the teams will also have to Dodge Rusty Wallace as he speeds down pit road???
Posted by: uncle Buddy | May 5, 2005 1:26:27 PM
Doug I think the Roush teams are doing the competition now. I guess 200,000 changed his mind.
Posted by: Trent | May 5, 2005 2:30:41 PM
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Good Luck Trent! Have fun and good luck at Darlington this weekend. Thanks for the awesome posts!
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Posted by: Mandy24 | May 5, 2005 4:22:52 PM
Uncle Buddy...That was low...funny but low
Posted by: Baker | May 6, 2005 7:58:49 PM
Gordon not only wins consistently, he often does it on his own, when everyone else is talking about needing drafting partners. Also, he doesn't even drive the same car each weekend, yet he could feel when he had a washer stuck in his tire! It sometimes takes a while before I figure out the air is low in a tire on my Camaro!!
Posted by: Allison | May 12, 2005 1:05:11 PM
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