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Nascar Pit Crews Are Using AI for the Perfect Pit Stop
In a sport where speed is everything, Richard Childress Racing has embraced artificial intelligence to time its refueling down to the millisecond.
Formula One’s paymaster, Liberty Media, may have thrust the sport deep into its American heartland—there are now three grand prix in the US—but it’s Nascar that continues to build its TV audience there against a slight decline for the “open wheel” F1 and IndyCar championships. The cars themselves aren’t fitted with fuel gauges in the cockpit, so it’s down to the teams’ strategists to constantly monitor the amount that goes in during a pit stop and the rate at which it’s consumed. Lenovo’s response was to devise a system that used in-car transponders and a camera mounted above RCR’s pitbox to identify when a car has entered the box and begin a real-time videofeed.
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