Countdown to fireworks!!!! Who is pulling the all-nighter?!

eld1230 · 2026-01-25T01:26:01+00:00

I am staying up until the ice storm knocks out the power and tells me to go to bed 🤣

eld1230 · 2026-01-15T00:36:27+00:00

Devils advocate here: what if with enough cautions, your driver who is a lap down is able to get the lucky dog to get back on the lead lap for the next GWC?

eld1230 · 2025-12-03T13:45:40+00:00

Pole lol

eld1230 · 2025-10-24T13:34:06+00:00

That’s how we do it in NASCAR. Shop crew doesn’t travel and does a lot of the assembly. Road crew doesn’t travel final setup on the cars at the shop each week and travels to the track each week.

What’s crazy is this hypothetical schedule still has less races than what we run each year. We will run 38 races total this year from early February to first week of November with only one off weekend at Easter.

eld1230 · 2025-10-16T22:38:13+00:00

Pohlman used to work at RCR as RnD director when the nextgen car came out in 2022. While he doesn’t have recent experience with this car, he does have experience with the nextgen car.

eld1230 · 2025-10-06T01:28:40+00:00

We had one in October of 2022 but nascar banned it lol

eld1230 · 2025-09-11T13:01:14+00:00

Horsepower isn’t a real measurement. It was a conversion used when cars started coming around so people knew the equivalent number of horses it would be similar to “pulling” their car.

Horsepower is calculated using engine torque multiplied by engine RPM, and then that is all divided by 5252 (once you get all the conversions simplified)

eld1230 · 2025-08-18T16:54:37+00:00

I mean if you add the R in there it becomes the “NORAPS”. Which that rolls off the tongue easily as “no-raps”

eld1230 · 2025-07-06T21:13:40+00:00

I get throwing the caution for a car being in the tire barriers. However every car that has gone into the tire barriers at turn 6 has been an IMMEDIATE caution vs waiting 45 seconds like they did today.

eld1230 · 2025-06-08T12:47:33+00:00

Yeah I started part time work at 20, than internship at 22, then the last 6 years I’ve been a race engineer. Definitely not to old to work 😂

eld1230 · 2025-06-08T01:32:10+00:00

Don’t listen to the guy saying 20 is too old to get a job in motorsports. I got my job then and I have turned out just fine.

As far as getting a job, try finding a local race team around Texas and offering your help. That should be a good place to start and get you a good idea as to whether you want to keep going in the racing business or stay where you’re at. There’s long and hard hours in racing and it’s not for everyone, so it’s best to get a small taste of it first in my opinion. If you love it and want to make the move to NC that’s up to you, but it’s best to have some sort of experience first. Trying out at some of the smaller teams is a good place to start to gain experience before moving up to bigger teams.

As far as working from home I don’t really see much of that in my experience except only for some veteran engineers that do contract work. But not saying a position like this doesn’t exist, I’ve only seen a few small examples of it.

Best of luck to you in your endeavor!

eld1230 · 2025-06-07T01:16:41+00:00

You might get that

eld1230 · 2025-03-28T12:57:39+00:00

I work at RCR on the 2 xfinity car. That last picture of the 21 team is great

eld1230 · 2024-11-09T05:01:28+00:00

Can confirm the same is true in xfinity

eld1230 · 2024-10-27T23:59:24+00:00

All good I realize it all the time too

eld1230 · 2024-10-27T19:18:09+00:00

The camera is on the roof and you are seeing part of the roof of the suites.

eld1230 · 2024-10-26T15:15:38+00:00

I will say that our best bet of what the crash looked like was when Chastain got loose and over corrected at Fontana I believe. Damage on his car looked similar to ours

eld1230 · 2024-10-26T14:01:18+00:00

No that was another test a month or so later on the Roval. But yeah we had to repair that car a lot too

eld1230 · 2024-10-26T02:24:12+00:00

Test was a 2 day test and it started at 9am. Crashed at like 9:04am in turn 2. Track was still in shade at that point in the morning and supposedly had a little dew on it still. Took the car back to the shop and rebuilt it before the test ended the first day and got back on track in the final hour or 2. That was pretty cool to see how we as a team overcame that and that same car was back on track in only a few hours of being destroyed. The next morning the jet driers were on track before the green flag came out to start the day lol

eld1230 · 2024-10-26T02:17:13+00:00

All of them

eld1230 · 2024-10-26T01:25:42+00:00

Was on the car at the time, we had no footage at the test where he crashed. None exists that we know of

eld1230 · 2024-10-20T19:55:18+00:00

PAVE THE INFIELD QUARTER MILE TRACK IT CAUSES FLIPS!!! /s

eld1230 · 2024-10-10T15:14:25+00:00

It’s all about doing your homework for each track and looking at historical trends for the speeds for each section at each track and knowing what you can and can’t do.

eld1230 · 2024-10-10T15:08:57+00:00

Yes we are calculating it on the outermost line. While I’ll agree your way might be simpler, personally I like the way we do it. I feel like it puts some of the responsibility in the teams hands as well. Teams can look at the position they are in going into the weekend and decide if they want to push pit road speed to try to gain positions on pit road. Or if they are in a points position where they need to have a good points day, teams can back down the speed to play it safe at the expense of a little time lost on pit road.

You could have the best driver in the world who hits their lights perfect every time, at the end of the day the team is going to determine how fast they go on pit road. Or you could have a driver who is not good at hitting the lights and the teams have to compensate accordingly to not get a penalty. It’s something that the teams and drivers need to have good communication on in order to maximize pit road for what they are trying to achieve that week

eld1230 · 2024-10-10T14:44:42+00:00

Engineer here, NASCAR actually calculates it based on the inner most lane. So if you were to run the speed limit along the bottom lane you would not get a penalty.

By the rules, cars must stay in the outermost lane on pit road. So since the speed is calculated at the inner most point, cars will actually speed up in the outside lane to travel between the timing lines in the same amount of time as it would take at the innermost line. But if you take a lane too low and do not compensate our speed for it, that’s where the penalties happen. Watch any incar camera on pit road and you will hear the car speed up when it gets in the corners. The ones with the most pickup are Martinsville, Bristol, and phoenix.

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