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NASCAR requires spotters at all times a car is on the track, including series in practice, qualifying, and the race. In many cases, a spotter is a former driver. At some tracks, mostly the road courses, NASCAR mandates multiple spotters at key locations around the track.
Spotters atop the tower at the Milwaukee Mile – 2009. Spotters became commonplace in NASCAR and CART in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Two-way communication between the driver and pit crew began in the 1970s and early 1980s, however, all communication was based in the pit area, and was primarily to discuss pit stop strategy and mechanical problems with the cars.
NASCAR logo. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) makes and enforces numerous rules and regulations that transcend all racing series.. NASCAR issues a different rule book for each racing series; however, rule books are published exclusively for NASCAR members and are not made available to the public. [1]
NASCAR teams compete in all three national NASCAR series: the Cup Series, Xfinity Series, and Craftsman Truck Series, as well as in all the regional touring series. A team is limited to four cars in each of the NASCAR series.
In 2010, he joined Germain Racing as a spotter for drivers Casey Mears and Max Papis in the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series. Three years later, he left the organization to join Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) as the spotter for driver Ryan Newman in the Sprint Cup Series, and followed Newman in 2014 to Richard Childress Racing in the same role. [19]
Blazing fast cars, racing inches apart. An endless number of parts that could fail at any moment. Exposure to radically inclement weather. If that sounds like a recipe for disaster, you wouldn’t ...
A spotter is a person used in vehicle maneuvers to assist a driver who may not have a clear view in their direction of travel. [1] [2] They are most commonly used in: Off-road rock crawling; Reversing truck and trailer combinations, such as semitrailers, b-trains and road trains; Placing oversized freight using a forklift
NASCAR is trying something completely different from the rules changes it has tried in recent years.