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At the start of the green flag for Friday night’s Craftsman Truck Series race in Las Vegas, roughly 10 teams were without pit crews, several of them having to leech from Xfinity and Cup Series teams until their own pit crews arrived.
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As reported by Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports, this put the plane’s estimated arrival time at 5:52 pm pst. just 25 minutes before the already rescheduled drop of the green flag. A police escort will accompany the teams to the track.
The main characters of the story are the NASCAR teams left suspended in the air just moments before the race began. Many teams, such as Front Row Motorsports, got Cup or Xfinity crews to pitch in until their teams were able to safely arrive to the facility.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Twitter account tweeted this video of the crews finally arriving to the garage area.
Kenneth W Lee Jr. tweeted this stilled image of the plane touching down at the Las Vegas Airport.
Here, Twitter user DennyDeliversYT tweets a Kyle Busch pitstop with several RCR Xfinity crew members going over the wall in his team’s absence.
NASCAR reporter, Matt Weaver, pokes fun at the situation as he plays career BINGO!
Matthew Burroughs continues the criticism of FOX’s coverage of NASCAR.
Here Bob Pockrass Tweets that Kyle Busch’s pit crew is geared up and heading to pit road.
Jeff Gluck Tweets that the pit crews have arrived during caution.
UPDATE: With the pit crews now at the track, hopefully the rest of the race will go on without a hitch.
