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On February 8, 2017, NASCAR announced a new Damaged Vehicle Policy, also taking effect in the 2017 season across all three national series. Cars may return to pit road for up to five minutes for minor repairs if they are involved in accidents, including repairing sheet metal, use of fasteners and/or tape to re-attach body panels, and ...
Vehicles on the Damaged Vehicle Policy (DVP) may drive to the garage or be towed there if necessary. A repair clock of 7 minutes (8 minutes for Atlanta) is activated for vehicles undergoing repairs on pit road. Once the clock expires, the vehicle must move to the garage to continue repairs but will not be disqualified from the race.
NASCAR will assess such penalties for violation of the Vehicle Testing Policy, wind tunnel policy, event roster and Code of Conduct policy. Performance obligation. NASCAR did not give many details on this change other than “verbiage around the 100% rule is replaced with a focus on “manipulating” the outcome of an event/championship.”
On February 8, 2017, NASCAR announced a new damaged vehicle policy for all three national series. Body panels can no longer be replaced after a wreck, and a team has five minutes on pit road to fix the damage before they are eliminated. [4] As in the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series, all Truck races will be split into segments.
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]
On February 8, 2017, NASCAR announced a new damaged vehicle policy for all three national series. Body panels can no longer be replaced after a wreck, and a team has five minutes on pit road to fix the damage before they are eliminated. [43] Like the NASCAR Cup Series, all Xfinity Series races were split into three segments.
Safety in NASCAR has evolved into one of the biggest concerns in stock car racing's largest sanctioning body. Mainly after the death of Dale Earnhardt , a seven-time Winston Cup Series champion, NASCAR has decided to change all of their safety policies, such as the use of the HANS device .
He finished 11th but the No. 42 team was docked 10 driver and 10 owner points after the team violated the damaged vehicle policy by using metal tabs instead of fasteners and/or tape to repair the torn right front fender. [51] Larson finished 3rd at the Kansas fall race but was eliminated from the Round of 12. He finished the season ninth in the ...