This NASCAR Team Is Using an Electric Stock Car for Pit Crew Practice

Joe Gibbs Racing had a problem. Its well-drilled pit crews spent recent years training on a stock car similar to the "Gen 6" cars the series raced for nearly a decade.

But NASCAR moved away from that car and decades of five-lug pit stop history when it changed to the "Next Gen" car in 2022. The team got by with a converted previous-generation car in 2022, but it was not quite an accurate representation of the exact parameters teams would see in a race. A new Next Gen car is expensive to build and maintain, and the engines and transmissions necessary to actually build one are in short supply. The team's solution? Simply make an electric stock car.