Montoya robbed ?

The red and green light is tach driven, it is a separate rev indicator that is programmed to go red at .1 under the maximum allowable speed. The issue is if the tire is molded with .25" of tread and the "speeder light" was set to 59.9mph with new tires the car will be slow on pit lane when the tires are worn. The crew will tweak the rev light for "worn tire speed" but if the tires are not as worn as the light the car will be a little fast.

redemption of sorts?

NASCAR allowed him to finish second. "I don't think Americuns are reddy fer one o' them forners to win jes yet."

maroon92 wrote: redemption of sorts? NASCAR allowed him to finish second. "I don't think Americuns are reddy fer one o' them forners to win jes yet."

Is that maybe because he has already won in the Nationwide and Nextel Cup series?

Yeah, but that was on one o' them road courses. Not a real race, like on a owval.

Racer1ab wrote:

Wally wrote: The speed limit was 55, they give them 5 mph because they have to use the tach to judge there speed. There is a site where you can pick a car and see it's in car camera and telemety at home. And if I remember from the last time we played with it there was a way to see pit road speeds. He broke the rule and got caught. He wasn't the first and won't be the last but it doesn't mean its fixed, or like many of you want to believe, because he's a furriner(sic).

Did anyone else remember seeing the coverage and hearing Montoya talking about some box that has a red or green light that drivers use to judge speed on pit row? Apparently, if the light is showing green, you are within the limit, and Montoya said that the light was green the whole time. Maybe it was just a calibration issue, but I had always heard the same thing about pit road speed being determined by RPM's. Just found it interesting.

yes they do use a series of lights to help them .... green under the limit... yellow above the limit but within the +5 mph.... red you're busted.... so maybe a calibration issue... except all the rest of his stops had been ok.... IMO he just got careless ...

now some drivers have "perfected" the art of speeding up where they are not being checked and slowing down where they are... JPM has complained in the past of drivers passing him on pit road while he was doing the speed limit and they aren't penalized

bludroptop wrote: Just like the kid from CT who won his first race a few weeks ago at the track he 'grew up at'. Makes a great story. Was it engineered to be that way? I don't think so but like I said - NASCAR has a credibility problem.

That only happened because he spun out earlier and had to pit out of sequence. He had more fuel than everyone else and was able to stay out when it started raining. Had the race been able to resume, he was boned.