JGR Publicly Calls Our Hendrick Motorsports & SHR Amidst the Ultimate Next Gen Pit-Road Battle

It has been a while since Cup Series teams have taken shots at one another on social media, but that’s exactly what fans were treated to recently. Joe Gibbs Racing essentially took the mickey out of Hendrick Motorsports and Stewart-Haas Racing, thwarting their claims for having the fastest pitstop in the current era of NASCAR. The race was won by a HMS racer, but at least JGR was able to get the win on social media, We have to celebrate even the small victories.

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It all started when Hendrick Motorsports, probably high on confidence after winning the race, shared a video of one of their pitstops on Chase Elliott‘s #9 car on Sunday and claimed it to be the fastest pitstop of the mono-lug era. It was an 8.49-second four-tire stop, which is quite an impressive feat. However, it did not take long for Stewart-Haas Racing to clap back as they shared their time of 8.45s at Kansas last year to be the quickest pitstop of this era.

And then came Joe Gibbs Racing. The team posted a video of its pit crew going to work on Christopher Bell‘s #20 car. The video was captioned, “@StewartHaasRcng @TeamHendrick correct us if we’re wrong but 8.39 comes before 8.45 and 8.49.” Fans had a fantastic time in the comments as they enjoyed the back-and-forth. One of them even commented, “this is about to be an ongoing battle for generations to come.”

Pit stops are when new tires are put onto a car, and Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin recently revealed the exorbitant amount of money the team has spent on tires in the first year of the Next-Gen car coming into the fray.

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The issue was not exactly the cost but the fact that a lot of those tires were never run out, hence they went to waste. In a recent episode of the Actions Detrimental podcast, the driver of the #11 car said that Joe Gibbs Racing had spent a whopping $1 million on tires in the first year of the Next-Gen car. The worst part is that they did not even run on those tires. Hamlin’s big idea is for NASCAR and Goodyear to implement a refund system for unused rubber.

“How much JGR had in extra tire inventory in the first year of next-gen, 2022? How much money was spent and never ran? Nearly one million! Nearly one million dollars worth of tires that JGR spent on tires that it never ran,” the 43-year-old had said. “We keep talking about cutting costs, cutting costs, cutting costs. How about we just get a f***ing refund for the tires we don’t use. Like can they go back in the recycling bin Goodyear? Please take them back, it’s just a waste of money,” he added.

Regardless of that, Joe Gibbs Racing will be quite pleased with their fastest pit stop record (unless even that is proven untrue). Maybe all those extra tires were for pit stop practice, maybe we will never know.