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The difference between 1st and 6th on the racetrack = $millions. Don’t settle. #nascar #success

23 Jan 2023 · 0 min

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A short YouTube interview (Andy Neary) highlighting how tiny time differences in NASCAR — e.g., a 0.2s blink during a pit stop — translate to large financial consequences. Speaker explains tire changers must hit five lug nuts in under a second; at ~190 ft/s, 0.2s equals ~56 ft, which on Daytona 500 finishing order separates 1st ($1.5M) from 6th ($500K).

But you made a comment while we were visiting the headquarters there. From a money perspective, what is the difference in NASCAR between first and ninth?
It's one lug nut, right? Like our our tire changers are tasked with hitting five lug nuts in under a second. So if you go ahead and blink your eyes, that's about two tenths of a second, right? Now, if you look at what that what that costs us in real world is a million bucks. And now I'm sure your listeners are like, well, there's no way that can be true. But if you look at the race car math, these cars are moving at 190ft per second. So 2/10 of a second equates to about 56ft. If you go look at the finishing order from the Daytona 500, the difference between 56ft is the difference between first and sixth. First place, $1.5 million. Sixth place is.
$500,000.