Winning the GTE class and placing fifth overall, the nascarg56 entry impressed during the LeMans24 pit stop challenge on Tuesday. NASCAR
NASCAR’s Garage 56 entry in the Le Mans 24 Hours has been able to taste victory at the endurance classic after all.Garage 56 is the entry that the Automobile Club de l'Ouest sets aside for the “technology of tomorrow and beyond” of innovative machinery.
However, the entry’s Hendrick pit crew topped 16 competitors in the GTE class to win Tuesday’s Pit Stop Challenge despite being the only team competing with a manual jack. They were also fifth overall.The five-person crew changed four Goodyear Eagle tires in 10.364 seconds, edging Northwest AMR by 0.12 seconds. They finished fifth overall, just 0.3 seconds behind the top finishing team.
“Over the past eight months we’ve put this team together and we’ve rolled with them the entire time and knew this is what we were going to bring to Le Mans, but we had to get them up to speed together,” Kureczka said.The crew includes Dawson Backus , Mike Moss , Donovan Williams , Cody French and Jarius Morehead . All five compete for HMS in the NASCAR Cup Series.
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