Nascar Got Rid Of Pit Lane Speed Limits During A Qualifying Session And It Was Chaotic

Nascar's exhibition 'All-Stars' race saw the series ditch pit lane speed limits for qualifying and it made for some fairly spectacular moments
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Pit lane speed limits have been a thing for decades, and for good reason. With people milling around and equipment everywhere it’s not exactly the ideal environment for cars to be gunning it, but Nascar decided to revive the practice (safely, of course) for a weekend.

The non-championship All-Stars race already has a unique qualifying format since drivers have to perform a pit stop at some point during their three-lap run. But this year the series implemented the added challenge of allowing drivers to go full chat into the pits (but only for qualifying) and it made for some serious misjudgements as drivers flew down off the banking at over 150mph.

It looks just as mad from onboard, too, as you can see from Kurt Busch’s helmet cam.

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Tomislav Celić

Just why? What sane person goes “I wish we didn’t have pit lane speed limit!”

There are many things to improve, yet people focus at the most stupid…

05/21/2018 - 15:24 |
116 | 22

Because it’s entertaining. The fact that this is in automotive news proves that it’s entertaining, in my opinion. Racing is just entertainment, after all.

05/21/2018 - 15:37 |
102 | 6

All I can say is… Welcome to Nascar!

05/21/2018 - 16:16 |
2 | 0

Maybe someone said “Do it for Dale!” and they responded “Hell yeah, brother!”.

05/21/2018 - 16:52 |
38 | 0

First, it’s just for the event, qualifying at that where they went one at a time around the track so the chance of hitting another car is impossible and the pit crew arent allowed to come out until the car is at a dead stop. Second at least organisers are trying to throw in some entertainment. If this was F1 they’d implement 53 new rules and a 2 cylinder drop just for the special event. Nascars are one of the safest high speed racecars atm, as seen by how many drivers walk away from serious accidents, not because that pea brained idiot Bernie eclestone and his band of merry idiots in the FIA killed off every entertaining race series by sucking the fun out of it means everyone should do the same

05/21/2018 - 17:18 |
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Ewan23 (The Scottish guy)

Enter your comment…

05/21/2018 - 15:37 |
4 | 8

have you seen how severe crashes these things can take?

05/21/2018 - 17:39 |
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Alex Webster

When the jackhammers for the wheel nuts sound better than modern F1 cars.

05/21/2018 - 15:38 |
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eXoZGaming

it looks like alot of fun doing that, scary sure….but really fun

05/21/2018 - 15:40 |
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CannedRex24

And people wonder why NASCAR had more fans than F1

05/21/2018 - 15:41 |
12 | 6

In the US sure but outside definitely not

05/21/2018 - 17:43 |
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Anonymous

And people say Nascar is boring :D

05/21/2018 - 15:49 |
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KPS Lucky - Inactive

What happened to the post you wrote yesterday? Didn’t you write about this?

05/21/2018 - 16:02 |
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Duggan (koalafan) (koalafan7) (Esprit Team) (Z32 Group) (Lot

Today I learned Nascars don’t have ABS

05/21/2018 - 16:26 |
6 | 4

I dont know about any racecar which has ABS.

05/21/2018 - 19:10 |
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BoostAddict 1

This needs to be an Olympic sport.

05/21/2018 - 18:09 |
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Anonymous

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05/21/2018 - 18:38 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

F1 cars do have reverse gear.

05/21/2018 - 19:08 |
14 | 0

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