NASCAR Advanced: War Wagons

State-of-the-art pit boxes streamlining crew work

In every NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pit stall you will find a state-of-the-art pit box, often referred to as a war wagon. A NASCAR Sprint Cup war wagon contains anything and everything a team could need during the course of a race.

The top of today’s pit boxes are the command center for each race team, featuring multiple rows of seating for team officials and VIPs, computers, and flatscreen monitors. Pit boxes started off in the form of small red Radio Flyer toy wagons that teams would use to transport their tools to and from the track. Like the sport of NASCAR, the little red wagons have evolved into the state-of-the-art command centers seen today.

A Radio Flyer wagon today will cost you about $100; a Sprint Cup war wagon will cost a little over $100,000.

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