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Alex Bowman and the No. 48 Chevrolet team has swapped four pit crew members with Carson Hocevar for Playoff Cutoff race at Bristol <\/p>\n
Playoff pressure in the NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series increases for the 16-eligble drivers as each Round decides who moves on, and who\u2019s out.<\/p>\n For the race at Bristol Motor Speedway<\/a> on Saturday night, the pressure is really on for the No. 48 Chevrolet team of contender Alex Bowman who is 15th in Playoff standing 35 points behind the Cutoff Line. Because of costly pit stops in the last two races, the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports and the non-contending No. 77 Chevrolet team of Carson Hocevar are swapping pit crews. The only member remaining with the No. 77 Spire Motorsports team is the Fueler of Zico Pasut.<\/p>\n The Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 team will now have the Front Changer \u2013 Daniel Boch, Rear Changer \u2013 Rod Cox, Tire Changer- Jarius Morehead and Jackman \u2013 Cody French, servicing Bowman\u2019s car. Hendrick Motorsports trains the pit crews for Spire Motorsports<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hocevar Crew Has it Going On<\/p>\n According to Bozi Tatarevic on his X account, the No. 77 Chevrolet pit crew was the fastest non-playoff crew at World Wide Technology Raceway last Sunday and had the third-fastest average of all crews.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, for the second-consecutive race, Bowman\u2019s Hendrick-trained crew had another pit road mishap resulting in a 26th-place finish. Not where one wants to be trying to fight their way into the Round of 12 after Bristol.<\/p>\n While running in the top 10, Bowman had to wait while the jackman had to lift up the left side a second time during a stop. The reason was the left rear tire wasn\u2019t properly tightened with the delay causing a 29.3 stop.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was just really poor execution on all angles today, it was a bummer,\u201d Bowman said after WWTR. \u201cI thought our No. 48 Ally Chevrolet was okay once we were kind of towards the front-half. We just struggled in the back. S<\/p>\n \u201cSuper frustrating, but all we can do is keep digging. There\u2019s a lot of people working really hard to continue to be better. I thought, race car-wise, we were heading in the right direction once we had some air on it.<\/p>\n \u201cWe just have to go to Bristol (Motor Speedway) and go to work.\u201d<\/p>\n Bowman\u2019s Struggles on Pit Road at Wrong Time<\/p>\n The need to make this crew swap can be easily ascertained from the last two races.<\/p>\n During the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway to open the Playoffs, Bowman suffered a disastrous stop to put him out of contention<\/a> 70 laps into the race. After pulling this No. 48 Chevrolet down pit road and into the stall, the rear tire changer went to the right side only to discover the air gun was not working properly.<\/p>\n This forced him back to the wall and the front changer jumped to the rear after completing his front tire change. As he went around the front of the car, the car moved forward trapping the only working gun and air hose under the right front tire.<\/p>\n Once the jackman came back around, lifted the car to free the hose, the front changer completed the left front as the rear changer, now back in service, completed the left rear change.<\/p>\n This all resulted in a 40-second pit stop for Bowman, who finished two laps down in 31st place.<\/p>\n Jeff Gordon, vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports, told Kelly Crandall of Racer<\/a> \u201cI guess we\u2019ll see\u201d when asked about the changes.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tTim Packman<\/a> Tim Packman is a journalist for Heavy.com covering NASCAR. He grew up around the short tracks of Western New York watching his dad, stepdad and step brother race. His uncle was the head starter at many area tracks and member of the FOAR Score Hall of Fame.
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\nTim’s passion for racing took him to the announcer’s tower and writing program stories for multiple tracks in the area, namely Lancaster National Speedway. In 2000, he moved to Mooresville, NC to become an award-winning journalist for NASCAR.com. He took a job with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. as the team’s Communications Director and was part of two Daytona 500 wins and two NASCAR Championships.
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\nThe announcing experience led to becoming a Pit Reporter and News Director for MRN Radio. A return to the team side at Richard Childress Racing as the Director of Corporate Communications took place, which also included another Championship.
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\nFrom 2015 to 2018, Tim returned to where his career began in 1994 – Lancaster National Speedway & Dragway – as the Track President. He earned Short Track Promoter of the Year awards in 2016 and 2017.
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\nUpon returning to NC, he joined The Garage Shop as Communications Director and host of it’s Podcast and MAV-TV docuseries “Legacy of Speed” talking about Land Speed Racing at Bonneville, and other places.
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\nTim has hosted two other Podcasts, namely “Pub Table Racers,” and wrote three books. One was with NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison titled, “Bobby Allison, a Racer’s Racer” and two Children’s books, “Funny Dan the Race Car Man” and “Petey the Pace Car.”
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\nHe also served in the US Navy. More about Tim Packman<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n