Anyone remember before the season and hearing how the EFI system was bullet proof because it's used in other racing leagues? Anyone not believing that any more?
Well, I know a few teams that aren't believing it. And Tony Stewart's team is one of them.
Last weekend Tony Stewart tried to play the fuel-saving game by cutting off his motor to save gas, then found that he could not restart it.
Turns out that Stewart's new crew chief, Steve Addington, at least found the culprit as being a breaker switch that shut off. It didn't affect the car until Tony had turned the car off... it was then that the impact of the switch was made apparent when it wouldn't let the car refire... grr.
And it seems this situation may have been seen at both Daytona and PIR.
I had a car once that wouldn't turn back on... it had to do with no heat shield over a solenoid.. but that's not a breaker, unless the breaker is heat sensitive... but that's my uneducated guess.
Until then, I'm thinking the teams need to be more careful about killing the engines to save fuel, as that doesn't look like it's saving positions!
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