First, he had to guess how fast he was going on pit road because the needle on his tachometer fell off, costing him valuable position in a battle with . "I have never seen a needle fall off a tach before, but ours sure did," he said. Then, during one stop in the middle of the race when he went in as the leader, a lugnut fell off during a tire change and he had to back his car back into the pit to have it attached.
But the time he got going again, he left pit road running 10th. "That was kind of frustrating," he said. WEATHER WATCHER: Eddie Wood of the famous Wood Brothers is a huge fan of The Weather Channel, and he had lots of fellow viewers on Sunday at Martinsville.
With overcast skies and forecasts that suggested there was at least a 40 percent chance of rain, Wood said it's tricky trying to decide a race strategy if it rains. "If it's one of those deals where you think it's going to be rain-shortened, you want to be on the race track at the right spot as much as possible," he said. "You don't want to pit and then it rains, that kind of thing.
You kind of do what the majority of people do. It's not smart to gamble on the weather." As the race goes deeper, the factors can change, however.
"It's always in the back of your mind, is this shower the last one and that kind of thing, because you can kind of tell by the tone of the way NASCAR is proceeding drying the track," Wood said. "They usually know more about the weather than we do.
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