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“Think Inside the Box” (Pit Crew Fantasy Camp)
This is your chance to experience what a Sunday afternoon on pit row is really all about.


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“Think Inside the Box” (Pit Crew Fantasy Camp)

This is your chance to experience what a Sunday afternoon on pit row is really all about.

You will watch and review film from previous races, learn and practice each position, and perform up to six actual stationary pit stops under the coaching and watchful eye of PIT's professional instructors.

Your Pit Crew Experience includes use of actual racing fire suits, pit crew gloves, pit crew kneepads, and all the same equipment and cars the professionals use for practice at PIT. In addition to an experience you're sure never to forget, you will take home an overhead video of your performance, a pair of PIT safety glasses, a PIT t-shirt, and your Fantasy Experience Pit Pass and lanyard.

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Classroom Experience Session (Morning)

Location: In a theater using PowerPoint show and videos

Objective: To introduce the racing industry, its development, operation and performance-based metrics while creating correlations to the client's industry

Content: Presenter/audience format. Questions and relative interactive discussion are encouraged to bring focus to specific client issues. The session includes an introductory video of racing pit crews, actual overhead pit stop analysis and comparison, and video of team communications during race conditions.

Outline:       

  1. Welcome and Introduction
  2. Development of Racing Industry – History, Pride and Tradition
  3. Environment
  4. Standardization of Work
  5. Quality
  6. Preparation
  7. Duties
  8. Regulations of Governing Agencies
  9. Team
    • Anatomy
    • Development
    • Potential
    • Values
    • Characteristics
    • Communication
    • Objectives
    • Stages
  10. Conflict
  11. Performance Metrics
  12. Continuous Improvement
  13. Adaptation to Change
    • Cause and Effect
  14. Quality Improvement
  15. Customer Service

    Activity Experience Session (Afternoon)

    Location: In the Motorsports Room and on Pit Row. Outdoor, hands-on activity with PIT coaches and instructors as team leaders.

    Objective: To create unique situations and experiences that require practical application of the concepts integral to a successful team

    Content: The hands-on experiential program puts into practice the developed concepts from the classroom session. Participants form pit crew teams of five participants per team (seven participants per team is an option but not preferred), and each team is assigned a "coach" from the PIT staff. Each team will perform a series of pit stops in an attempt to complete the task in the shortest period of time. Over the course of the session, each team faces a variety of challenges in order to demonstrate the effects of communication, standardization of work, efficiency, and other topics previously addressed.

    Outline: Each pit stop presents a different scenario and challenge that the team must resolve. Such situations may include:

    1. Performance expectations

    2. Performance feedback

    3. Exchanging team members

    4. Exchanging team member duties

    5. Loss of a team member

    6. Equipment failure

     

    PIT Instruction and Training occupies a 24,000 sq. ft. building on 5.5 acres located adjacent to the NASCAR Technical Institute in Mooresville, N.C.  The PIT facility features a state-of-the-art physical conditioning and rehabilitation facility, multi-purpose training room, therapy room, steam room, motorsports training shop, 98-person auditorium, merchandise shop, locker rooms, catering kitchen, classrooms, offices and more. The PIT campus includes a ¼-mile track and pit road with six pit stalls, eight-lane competitive running and jogging track, ½-mile natural terrain fitness trail, regulation beach volleyball court, natural turf multi-sport training area and 15 garage stalls to store and maintain racing vehicles and equipment.