Q: Generally ..... maybe it differs from espn, fox, tnt......when they make stops they show a few cars and their times in the pit boxes, showing how many seconds their pit stop took. And what about that final pit stop? Not one driver got hit with "too fast down pit road"....kind of suspicious that Johnson went to pit road 3rd came out first, and there was no coverage as to why it took the 1st and 2nd place cars so long on their pits. Is this a case of Johnson cheating again? Team #48 crew cheif suspended, 2006 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Chad+Knaus+suspended Bobby Labonte got a speeding on pit road penalty under green, the only one the whole race, broadcasted. No one on the last pit stop, the most crucial pit stop, got caught speeding down pit road. And I just asked the question " Is this a case of Johnson cheating again?" touche' lisa- in my mind that is a possibility(Johnson cheats) they all push the envelope at some point. So my response to the question was that of my own opinion. I posed the question to see if there were any others out there with the same opinion of that possibility, since we can't know for sure unless it is exposed in the next week. And BTW I haven't given thumbs either way to any one, so you received your thumbs down from someone else. If I had given it to you I would admit so. Not like you're going to clobber me through the computer. There has always been controversy surrounding Nascar on the subject of favoritism. Debris cautions for......what debris? And no penalties for the Golden Child in his year or two of super-popularity (Jeff Gordon), when he was guilty of bumper bashing, that others were penalized for when it happened to him.
A: johnson's team had a great pit stop and he had the first pit - nearly every race whoever has that first pit manages to come out in front if they came in as one of the top three. as speed is averaged from one line to the next in sections along pit road, the driver with the first pit has a great advantage - three actually: 1) no one in front of him when he's ready to go, 2) no need to look out for other cars as they don't have to blend in with traffic on pit road, and 3) that box is usually half-way through the last "scoring box" where speed is calculated. that means the driver can speed leaving his pit as the time between him crossing the first line in that last scoring segment and him leaving it also includes the pit stop - so average speed is very low.