Winning a race often comes down to more than just gaining and holding a leading position on the track. Sometimes, races can be won—and lost—in the pits.
Back in the May 2013 issue of Grassroots Motorsports, we observed the strategies that Team Sahlen used to minimize the time its car spent in pit lane during the 2013 Rolex 24, and …
Something super weird just happened. I opened that eight-year-old issue, and there was an article about a new version of the 370Z in it. It's amazing how some things stay the same while everything else changes.
https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/sports-cars/370z-coupe.html
Time marches on. Except when it doesn't.
In reply to Colin Wood :
Isn't the tittle wrong? I thought in racing the goal was to minimize time spent in the pit not maximize?
And as the Green flag drops all the racers head for the pits.
Perhaps a better tittle would be optimizing pit time.
Good question. The editor in me likes both--as in, maximize efficiency of those pit stops. But I do like optimize, too, now that I think about it. Thanks!
The older I get, the more important this is to me. I often ask if I need to do anything else when making a pit stop.
In reply to captdownshift (Forum Supporter) :
At my SCCA school, they stressed making a pitstop before getting in the car.
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