Pit Lane Speeding: Should NASCAR Make Changes After Jimmie Johnson’s Comments?

Racin' with Russ–This is a topic that comes up every year with no real resolution, the general public doesn't see the process in action and so on. But when five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson goes off after a recent race that he was not speeding and NASCAR was wrong for penalizing his team, it raised some additional eyebrows. Several days after his rare bashing of NASCAR, Johnson retracted his comment and apologized for the indiscretion, but you could tell there is still an “air” about the process in his comments. The process of catching drivers speeding down pit lane has evolved over the past few decades, where they used to simply and arbitrarily pick a driver to time and possibly punish by using a handhel...

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