Obviously pit stops and pit strategy get bathed in the spotlight when the circus goes to the roadcoarses. The basic idea is to get as good of fuel mileage as you can and be the first one to make your last pitstop. Of course for this to work well, you have to have a good pitstop and you have to have good pit in and pit out laps, so the pit road speed calculation becomes of paramount importance.



At the road courses ( and the 2 short tracks) the pit road speed is 35mph, which is… Read More

Welcome one and all back to the engineering blog....For those of you who don't know, I used to do one on the Uprising when I used to work as an engineer at RGM. I don't work there anymore, but the masses have spoken, so I am bringing it back.



Thought I'd start with a little diddy about tires since they were such an issue this week. The obvious question would be "How did they miss it so bad?" Unfortunately I have no idea. They obviously tire tested there, so it baffles me. I have been… Read More