Nascar SCS Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway Sunday August 31 on ESPN at 7:30 PM ET

Nascar ^

[mabarker1]

LOL!

Why am I seeing the insurance commercial with the 2 goofy guys trying to break into the office in My head?

[mabarker1]

On RaceHub Tonight they talked about this. The limit on line PSI is 150#, they use Nitrogen not compressed air because it is moisture free and also cools the guns. They said that most guns run in the 30,000 to 40,000 RPM and that Gibbs has upped it to around 50,000 in their guns- hence the change in sound.

So whatever JGR has done is all internal. I’m guessing maybe some of the parts are either exotic metals or composite of some kind.

Basically a SUPER Blueprinted gun, lightened components that are super reliable.

I know that all day long every day they are running practice stops because We can hear it from Mama’s Office all Season long.

[Chode]

strong wrists required...

[nascarnation]

Interesting.

Impact gun technology war.
I’m sure that’s a topic of intense study this week.

Or the Nascar domos can spec an “impact gun of the future” where everybody will have to use it.

[happydogx2]

I’ve lived in the land of “flakes and quakes”, as Mrs. Happydog calls California, for a few years during the 50’s/60’s & 80’s. There are still some very livable areas in the State particularly in the north of the 600 mile long coast. I like the Sonoma area and readily admit that it’s the only road course I’ve been too - have a good time down there so…..do the road courses you’ve mentioning have the undulations in the track?
We keep talking about going to Watkins Glen. Maybe one of these days.

[mabarker1]

OK

Yes there are "Upies and Downies" at all of them.

Sir Chode can give You details about WG.

I also forgot about the Circuit of the Americas in Texas that is going into it's ?3rd? year with F1.

P.S. just watch out for the Looney Left there at "Berkley on the Colorado"

[mabarker1]

UPDATE: As the JGR team of Denny Hamlin consistently beat the Stewart-Haas Racing team of Kevin Harvick off pit road Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Harvick crew chief Rodney Childers told Harvick that JGR had some new air guns they were using. Mike Lepp, the JGR athletic director who oversees the pit crews, swears that these are the guns that they have been using all year to loosen and tighten lugnuts during a pit stop. He said the team typically has some pit stops under 12 seconds and others over 12 seconds but Sunday whipped off all pit stops under 12 seconds. With JGR not having been in contention to win as many races this year, it just became noticeable Sunday with Hamlin and Harvick battling for the lead. Lepp said he believes it was just Childers trying to calm down his driver. "There wasn't anything new or anything," Lepp said in a phone interview Tuesday with the Sporting News. "It was an attempt to calm his driver down. ... (Like the cars), it's the same thing with these guys, you still have to have good athletes. But there's nothing that we brought to Atlanta that we haven't been bringing. The difference is we were running up front. When you go from 12th to ninth, you're not going to be feature (on TV)." Childers said Monday in an email that he wasn't trying to knock the JGR pit crew ability and talked to Lepp to make sure there were no hard feelings. Childers did say he believes the JGR air guns are better than the current ones SHR uses. But what about the sound of the guns? The guns might sound different depending on the tire changer, Lepp said. Each of the major teams make their own guns, which must be air-powered, and each tire changer is responsible for determining how fast they go. The only rule on air guns dictates that they must be NASCAR approved, air-powered and can only do one lugnut at a time. A NASCAR spokesman said Tuesday that it has "no issue whatsoever" with the air guns that JGR is using.(Sporting News)(9-3-2014)

[Chode]

but NASCAR doesn't run the boot...

[Chode]

ate lunch with a guy monday said they are going to repave the whole track next year... not simply resurface it

[mabarker1]

Cool!

That’s an AWESOME Track Map!

Thanks, I knew You would have something;)

[happydogx2]

Thanks. Maybe I should start saving my pennies.

[Chode]

it's a good time...

[Chode]

i had that on a tee shirt once