NASCAR announce pit road and caution vehicle speed limits for 2018 season

NASCAR have officially announced the pit road and caution vehicle speed limits for each track on the schedules of the three top series in the 2018 season.

The release of the speed limits on pit road and for caution vehicles across NASCAR‘s top three series, the Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Truck Series, in the 2018 season was officially made on Wednesday.

There were no changes to any of these speed limits among the tracks that were previously on the schedules of NASCAR’s top three series in the 2017 season.

In terms of additional tracks coming to any of NASCAR’s top three series in the 2018 season, there is one new track on the schedules of both the Cup Series and the Xfinity Series. That track is the road course at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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The 18-turn, 2.4-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway road course will host a playoff race for both the Cup Series and the Xfinity Series in the 2018 season. Previously, the Charlotte Motor Speedway oval had hosted the race.

According to NASCAR.com, there is some leeway when it comes to these speed limits, however. Drivers are allowed to five miles per hour over these speed limits at most. Nothing beyond that is permitted.

Here is a chart that lists each track that one of more of NASCAR’s top three series will visit in the 2018 season and the pit road and caution vehicle speed limits of each track, courtesy of NASCAR.com. All speeds are listed in terms of miles per hour.

Track	Pit road speed	Caution vehicle speed
Atlanta Motor Speedway	45	55
Auto Club Speedway	55	65
Bristol Motor Speedway	30	35
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park	40	45
Charlotte Motor Speedway oval	45	55
Charlotte Motor Speedway road course	40	45
Chicagoland Speedway	45	55
Darlington Raceway	45	50
Daytona International Speedway	55	70
Dover International Speedway	35	45
Eldora Speedway	30	30
Elkhart Lake’s Road America	40	45
Gateway Motorsports Park	45	50
Homestead-Miami Speedway	45	55
Indianapolis Motor Speedway	55	70
Iowa Speedway	40	45
ISM Raceway (Phoenix)	45	50
Kansas Speedway	45	55
Kentucky Motor Speedway	45	55
Las Vegas Motor Speedway	45	55
Martinsville Speedway	30	35
Michigan International Speedway	55	65
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	35	45
New Hampshire Motor Speedway	45	50
Pocono Raceway	55	70
Richmond Raceway	40	45
Sonoma Raceway	40	45
Talladega Superspeedway	55	70
Texas Motor Speedway	45	55
Watkins Glen International	40	45

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How many penalties will we see issued to drivers who do not adhere to the pit road speed limits across NASCAR’s top three series in the 2018 season? With everyone doing everything they can possibly do just to gain fractions of a second, we may see drivers going over these limits, and thus we may see these penalties issued quite frequently like usual.

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