Former jackman Jeff Hammond breaks down who’s responsible on pit stops

One thing that has been puzzling me is we had a situation that developed at Dover with both a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team and a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series team having pit stops where the execution of the stops were so bungled that a wheel literally came off each vehicle as it exited pit road.

And NASCAR, based on how their rules are set up, reacted and penalized the teams because it is a safety violation.

When you think about the danger a wheel coming off on pit road creates — possibly hitting a crewmen or a fan on pit road — these wheel-and-tire assemblies will do a lot of damage it they hit something.

So I understand the safety issue.

I also understand when you’re making an…