NASCAR defends pit road timing system

Roughly a third of the field in last Sunday's Pocono 400 presented by #NASCAR was busted for speeding on pit road. Several drivers received multiple penalties. Among them, the offending drivers collected 22 speeding penalties, eight more than the previous record of 14 doled out at Kansas in 2006. NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton said NASCAR was satisfied with the way the system worked at Pocono but would take another look before the Sprint Cup Series returns to Pocono in August.

"We'll go back and we'll look at the equipment and things," Pemberton said. "All of our inputs were correct. The dimensions (of the pit road segments in which cars are clocked) were correct. We go out of our way to not penalize — contrary to popular belief. We'll go back and make sure if, for some strange reason, something went wrong, but we haven't seen that. We looked at it all with all our backup systems during the event. We never saw any of that. But we'll go back, just like they (the teams) did, because we want to make sure that everybody's OK." NASCAR Wire Service