From The Sprint Cup Garage

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I hung around the garage area earlier today and watched the Cup cars go through their inspections. The process seemed quite a bit more assembly-line than Nationwide inspections yesterday, as the cars passed through a number of stations in close succession. First, an overall check, including underhood, suspension setup, and ride height. Second, the cars went on the scale to get weighed. Third, the teams rolled the cars outside into a tent for body templates. Finally, the cars went on what looked like an alignment rack, where they checked camber settings, toe, and the like. It was loud, because the Nationwide cars were doing their practice session while this was going on, and for the most part, I tried hard to stay out of everyone’s way. But I managed to snap a few pics of the cars and the activity in the garage area. Look!

First station:

Second: getting weighed.

Next, into the body-template tent:

Last station: alignment.

Other pics from the garage…