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Christopher Bell’s Crew Chief Reflects on His Early Next Gen Pit Road Fears

In 2022, Adam Stevens predicted the single-lug-nut Next Gen car’s quicker stops would cause “crisscrossing traffic” and “several cars making contact.” Looking back, he says the chaos never came. Timing just tightened—“instead of 25 or 30 cars, it’s 15” a driver passes entering/leaving his stall. He called it an adjustment that raised awareness but ultimately “hasn’t been a huge deal.”