NASCAR to use extra pace car behind jet dryers: NASCAR officials
announced a change to have an extra pace car with flashing lights behind
the last jet-dryer truck on the track in all races in all three series
-- Sprint Cup, Nationwide and the Camping World Trucks Series. The
change, which was explained to the Sprint Cup teams during the drivers'
meeting Sunday morning at Phoenix International Raceway, comes after
Juan Pablo Montoya's car spun into a jet-dryer truck during a caution
period in the Daytona 500 Monday night. The drivers of the jet-dryer
trucks also will wear helmets and fire suits during each race, but that
is a change agreed upon by officials at race tracks that play host to
NASCAR events, not a rule instituted by NASCAR.
03/05/2012
