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No bowl of cherries.(NASCAR)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Imagine you and 42 other drivers are attempting to parallel park at 55 mph in 43 adjacent spaces that are 29 feet long and 16 feet wide--while legions of people in firesuits dash around you and the others. Most of us are not professional drivers, so mayhem would ensue. But after watching the incidents on pit row at Daytona and California, it appears some Nextel Cup drivers are having the same problems ordinary drivers would.
The pressure of coming into and getting out of the pits is evident when you hear the emotion coming through on a scanner late in a race. For some drivers, getting tangled up with another car simply is a matter of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. For others, mechanical issues, such as locking brakes, come into play.
Daytona 500 champ Jeff Gordon knows the perils of not pitting well. At New Hampshire last year, Gordon clipped two Hendrick Motorsports team-maneuvering mates, from Jimmie ...