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Hauler Parking and Pit Practice

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Rusty Wallace Visits Former Blue Max Racing Shop: 1980's NASCAR History Hiding in Plain Sight!

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The speaker points out a large crane inside the building, which was used for moving metal. He also indicates the area where race haulers were parked, mashed as close to the fence as possible, and where pit stop practice for the real race cars (not dedicated practice cars) took place. He recalls the constant presence of tires being measured, aired up, and broken down from wheels by the team's tire guy, Todd Parrott.

Goal: Illustrate the logistics of hauler parking and the realities of pit stop practice.

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well i'm sure it was multiple uses after we left but i remember this he had a big crane inside there i thought which i thought was real strange the first day i saw the building right down to the center there's like a big crane they would bring metal in and out of or something i bet it's still there uh but right here against his fence all the way against the fence remember we used to get the hauler smashed against the fence all we possibly could and that's where the taller would sit and so we back the cars out of these garage doors here and roll them over and start them up and run them and do pit stop practice out here and everything out this little parking lot really and the trains are flying by because there's the train tracks pretty crazy huh that is crazy it doesn't seem big enough to have all that going on back here i know no i mean the haulers you park a hauler back here there's not much room to do anything that building over that little piece sticking out the back i remember we had a big air compressor in there and i remember todd parrot was our tire guy back then he always had tires laying everywhere out in the back here he was measuring them and airing them all up and getting them all ready and breaking the tires down off the wheels it was it was a lot of tires over there i remember that but uh yeah boy stay in the back here right now it sure does look smaller than what i remember it you know what is it when was the last time you stood back here probably 1991 wow i never have come back here until you called me up about this and i said okay i'm glad i did because i'm interested to see what it looks like you know that's cool but um there was enough room there to win a championship back then we had 30 no i think we had like 28 total employees and we won a title wow you know and now where do they got two 300 yeah per team yeah protein i don't remember all this

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