{"id":190454,"date":"2025-09-01T01:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190454\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:24:10","slug":"nascar-crew-suffers-through-brutal-comically-long-pit-stop-in-first-playoff-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190454\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Crew Suffers Through Brutal, Comically Long Pit Stop in First Playoff Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_7mdtm1udl\">Every second counts for a NASCAR pit crew as they work to get their driver back onto the track as quickly as possible. In the playoffs, it&#8217;s even more essential for these pit stops to go down without a hitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_m3nohmtio\">Unfortunately for Alex Bowman, his crew let him down massively at Darlington on Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_o33za3eqb\">Following a poor qualification, Bowman knew he needed to make up for it on the track, but things went disastrously wrong for the No. 48 car during a crucial stop. The average NASCAR pit stop lasts from around 8-12 seconds. Bowman was in the pit for over 40 seconds, and as a result, he found himself two laps behind the leader when he returned to the track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_1gkxi8mu3\">Have a look at the pitstop-gone-wrong:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Things go from bad to worse for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alex_Bowman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Alex_Bowman<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Following this extended stop, the No. 48 is 36th, two laps down. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCARPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NASCARPlayoffs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/06Kk8GEFfT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/06Kk8GEFfT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASCAR (@NASCAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR\/status\/1962287555447058808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_kguorhlew\">That&#8217;s a moment that would have any driver fuming inside their vehicle. Bowman had to sit there helplessly as his crew fumbled what should&#8217;ve been a 10-second stop and turned it into a lengthy stay on pit lane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_0vxp5orns\">Bowman will have his work cut out for him if he hopes to catch up to the pack at the Cook Out Southern 500. <\/p>\n<p>More on Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every second counts for a NASCAR pit crew as they work to get their driver back onto the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-190454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115126433679567326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}