RICHMOND, Va. — NASCAR plans to review the circumstances surrounding a pit fire that injured three pit crew members during Friday night's Xfinity Series race at Richmond International Raceway.
Two Richard Childress Racing crew members and one member of driver Eric McClure's team were injured when fuel ignited at the rear of RCR driver Brendan Gaughan's car during a mid-race pit stop.
A huge fireball erupted at the car, sending pit crew members scrambling. Safety workers extinguished the fire quickly.
"We'll go back to Concord (N.C., the NASCAR Research and Development Center) and look at all the parts and pieces and try to recreate what happened," said NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp.