Watch as Kevin Harvick's tire changer practice hitting five lug-nuts before the NASCAR Cup Series Race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
5 on 5 off: Watch Kevin Harvick's tire changer practice a pit stop | #shorts | NASCAR
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44 comments
They practice, and practice and practice, and still missed 2 nuts.
sometimes that’s done on purpose and you hope that there’s a caution for 1 last pit stop
He’s almost as good as Guido from cars
Nah, Guido is a whole different league!
Peet Stoppe
He kinda looks a bid italian
Almost!
I was looking for this comment
The only thing I don’t understand is how the bit lands on the nut perfectly every time
Google?
@Christian Rodgers ??? sounds cooler in your head!
Muscle memory and a spring-loaded socket.
@slapshot3897 *nuts
Well not only are these guys pretty damn accurate the bit is flanged to sort of funnel the nut into the socket
I don’t fear a man who practices a thousand kicks. I fear a man who practices one kick a thousand times.
I fear a man who has a gun
@42 I fear someone that has a bomb
I am this man
Good 1
@Broccoli Side Dish yes, cause saying it the way he did is the same thing lol
I was a fire pit crew member for Kevin harvick I’m Atlanta motor speedway this year and it was amazing the crew and crew chief had the best hospitality and gave me a great time to remember and memories
This is my local tyre shop, 5 off and 5 stripped nuts back on
Lmao
Lol
@Liquid Mike facts… I tell them to get them snug, I’ll tighten them my self.
Haaaaaaaaa
5 off and 5 on torqued to Thor
That takes skill. Next year I am applying for the 1 lug nut. I think it will be much easier
For everyone that is interested in what impact they are using it’s most likely the “Thunder Gun” made by Ingersoll Rand. It runs up to 15,000 rpm at 1000 ft-lbs. Don’t even think about buying one unless you are apart of a race team, not for general public.
@James Lalone You missed the point entirely, stupendous job.
You can buy a not street legal Thunder gun on ebay right now $350
That little pissy gun ain’t s***. Wait till you see the one that will be used on the next-gen cars for the single lug nut. They’ve been using them for years and trans amps and other race classes they operate on $275 PSI of nitrogen
@John Madden Not that matters because they use a special bit that ruins the lugs and the bit has to be replaced every like 100 used because the spirals strip out
That’s how fast I change a tire when it’s freezing outside.
FIA be like : “Under 2 seconds stop is too fast, it increases the risk of failures!”
No failures happen.
-Forces 2sec minimum stop
NASCAR be like : “4 ppl take it or leave it, don’t care how fast/how slow, just do it.”
-Lugnuts flying everywhere, absolute chaos around the car
Well I’m guessing that in 2022 with only one lug nut to only worry about pit stops will drop even faster.?!?!? We shall see to be continued….
Lol they WERE getting dangerously fast, go watch Kimi snap his rear tire changers leg in half a few years back, there have been plenty of injuries the last few years before pit stop regulations were changed, and for good reason. When’s the last time you’ve seen a horrific injury due to the cars being released too soon since the new system has been implemented.
And hell, I’m a Red Bull/Verstappen fan, with plenty of distain towards Mercedes…so no bias here.
Especially with the money equipment and like a 10 person crew to remove one lug nut….
@Ian Jones Not to mention they even refill the drivers camelpak in some cases and even rip off body panels or apply tape over damage to reduce drag DURING the 15 second stop. NASCAR pit teams are nutty
Wow those guys have got skills plus total muscle memory its amazinb
I do brakes all the time and take tires off for several repairs and I can’t hold a candle to that. I’m extremely fast at my job and this is just insane to me
You could tell this guy helped alot of people on the side of the road lol
For those of you wondering about how hes able to hit those lugnuts @10000-14000rpm accurately, the socket isnt hexagonal. Think of a bolt extractor nut, but without the spiraled rifling. Its still rifled just straight down rather than at an angle. This gives a smaller engagement on the faces of the lug nut, and damages it in the process, yet still tightens it to proper torque. The socket is also set screwed onto the drive of the thundergun to prevent it flying off. With the thundergun spinning at that high of rpm, you would never be able to tighten the lugnuts with a normal socket. Its impossible for the human body to move fast enough to overcome the tool spinning so fast. It would round off the faces of the lugnut before it ever hit correctly.
That sound will be forever the most iconic.