What happens when a top tier series gets their wheel guns from Harbor Freight

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What happens when a top tier series gets their wheel guns from Harbor Freight

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The gun situation in NASCAR is a bit of a farce right now. Why did they even make the decision to change everyone's setup?

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Maritimer wrote:
27 Mar 2018, 00:25
The gun situation in NASCAR is a bit of a farce right now. Why did they even make the decision to change everyone's setup?
Smaller teams insisted that NASCAR standardize the wheel guns.

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FightingHellPhish wrote:
27 Mar 2018, 06:01
Maritimer wrote:
27 Mar 2018, 00:25
The gun situation in NASCAR is a bit of a farce right now. Why did they even make the decision to change everyone's setup?
Smaller teams insisted that NASCAR standardize the wheel guns.
Why though? Was there an airgun development war happening? I never heard anything about it before.

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When would a racing team leave the smallest stone unturned for time? Of course there was an airgun development war, F1 had one as well, a war that was causing injuries to the wrists of the gun men, so they had to regulate the max air pressure.
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ENGINE TUNER wrote:
27 Mar 2018, 07:36
When would a racing team leave the smallest stone unturned for time. Of course there was an airgun development war, F1 had one as well, a war that was causing injuries to the wrists of the gun man, so they had to regulate the max air pressure.
This. NASCAR teams were spending hundreds of thousands on wheel guns between dev and race by race rebuilds.

Though, NASCAR turned it into a SNAFU

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I've seen the indycar guys throwing their guns over and sometimes into the pit wall, do the Nascar guys do the same?

Be good to your tools and your tools will be good to you.
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Do now tell us - was Team Haas so supplied, by any chance? L.o.l...
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I agree that the guns in NASCAR take a lot of abuse from being thrown around. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
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ENGINE TUNER wrote:
27 Mar 2018, 10:46
I've seen the indycar guys throwing their guns over and sometimes into the pit wall, do the Nascar guys do the same?

Be good to your tools and your tools will be good to you.
Didnt seem to be a problem before now

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