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BDI Racing Team Takes Media Pit Crew Challenge Title
Over 40 Charlotte-area and national media participated in the event, which followed the same format as the NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge that will be held Thursday night. In addition to the team competition, winners were also crowned in four individual skills competitions for quickest jack man, front tire changer, rear tire changer and gas man.
BDI Racing Team, which included Dillner as jack man, Dustin Archer as front tire changer, Bob Backner as rear tire changer and Matt Kentfield as gas man, beat teams from WBTV (Charlotte NBC affiliate) and WSOC-TV (Charlotte ABC affiliate) in the preliminary rounds before besting the Bobcats in the finals. The Bobcats team defeated the Charlotte Observer and WCCB (Charlotte FOX affiliate) to reach the finals.
Other teams were fielded by the UNC-Charlotte Niner University Times, Sprint Vision and SPEED.
Prior to the event, the media teams were tutored by members of the No. 12 Alltel Dodge pit crew, the defending NASCAR Sprint Pit Crew Challenge championship team, and defending individual jack man champion Mitch Lash of the No. 55 NAPA Toyota crew.
In the individual skills competitions:
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