What is dvp in nascar?

In the first year of the DVP(Damaged Vehicle Policy) that was instituted was any car on pit road and making repairs were put under a five minute repair clock. There are two changes planned to the DVP, based on discussions with teams and with the reduction of the number of over-the-wall pit crew. Tower Talk Terms with Cassie! October 11th, 2017. NASCAR further explains the L1 penalty process in regards to Kyle Larson. The biggest tweak came under NASCAR's Damaged Vehicle Policy (DVP), a rule that knocked Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoff driver Matt Kenseth. NASCAR also is adding a minute to the time allotted for teams to make repairs, giving them 6 minutes under the DVP clock.

CONCORD, N.C. — Alex Bowman watched the rain-filled skies over Charlotte Motor Speedway Saturday with more than a touch of disappointment.

As weather threatened to cancel Saturday night’s scheduled NASCAR Cup Series practice at the speedway, Bowman saw his chances to testing his car — and his body — dissolving in the raindrops. NASCAR ultimately cancelled practice and qualifying because of rain.

Bowman suffered a fractured vertebra in a sprint car accident last month and has missed three Cup races while he recovers. Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600, the season’s longest race, is scheduled to mark his return to the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 Chevrolet.

“It would have been really nice to kickstart that with practice today,” Bowman said. “I haven’t raced or competitively driven a race car in a month. I’m trying to understand where my rusty areas are going to be and where I’m still good.”

Bowman ran 200 laps in a test season at North Wilkesboro Speedway this week, but, of course, that doesn’t compare with the faster speeds and tougher G-forces he’ll experience over 400 laps Sunday at CMS.

Bowman admitted that he is still experiencing pain from the back injury — his car flipped several times — and that he expects some pain during the race. But he said he is confident he’ll be OK and that the longer race distance won’t be an issue.

“I broke my back a month ago, and there’s definitely things that come along with that for a long time,” he said. “I have some discomfort here and there and there are things I do that don’t feel good. That’s just part of it. It’s stuff I’ll have to deal with. But, for the most part, I’m back to normal.

“I’m easing back into being in the gym. I’m trying to be smart with things. If I twist the wrong way, sometimes it hurts. In the race car at the end of a six-hour race, I’m probably not going to be the best.”

The sprint car crash interrupted what had been a fine seasonal start for Bowman. Although winless, he had three top fives and six top 10s in the first 10 races.

“I’m excited to be back,” Bowman said. “Hopefully, we can pick up where we left off and be strong right out of the gate.”

He said he hopes to return to short-track racing but not in the near future.

“Someday I want to get back in a sprint car or midget,” he said. “I felt like we were just getting rolling in a sprint car. That night we were pretty fast. Definitely a bummer there. That’s something I really want to conquer and be competitive at in the World of Outlaws or High Limits races. Somebody I’ll get back to that. It’s probably smart if I give my day job a little alone time for a bit.”

In NASCAR, DVP means Damaged Vehicle Policy. The DVP is basically a set of rules that determines the continued eligibility of a stock car once it's been damaged. NASCAR has a clearly defined policy so that cars that are damaged to a certain point or in a certain way can no longer be on the track.

The rule was a necessary one, especially considering how fast NASCAR vehicles are moving around the track. It doesn’t take much and a piece of debris that drops off of a damaged car endangers the entire field of drivers.

NASCAR dove headlong into a new DVP back in 2017, further updating it in later years as events dictated. The original DVP essentially eliminated damaged cars that could no longer perform to their maximum potential.

In the past, a stock car that was badly damaged and clearly could no longer compete, would still get patched up in the pit and spend the remainder of the race gimping around the race track, sometimes returning to the pit multiple times.

They end up finishing last, of course, but there was an incentive to finishing the race, especially if you were in the points battle running. The DVP put an end to all of that and has since been enhanced as more details came to light or more ideas bore fruit.

The entire point of the exercise is to eliminate an obvious safety hazard on the track that really has no reason to be there at all.

According to Scott Miller, NASCAR’s Senior VP of Competition, “We have a lot of cars that are going back on the track that ends up in 38th position, for instance, that probably don’t need to be out there from a safety and competition aspect.”

The Damaged Vehicle Policy, in its original form, had a few stipulations. It didn’t end up being an overly bloated, ridiculously overextended user manual on damaged vehicle safety like many expected it to be. Governing bodies are often guilty of doing such things.

The DVP is almost entirely based on safety. Of course, it's not just the driver’s safety that NASCAR is concerned with either but the safety of the crews and the safety of the EMT response teams that have to come out onto the track in the event of an accident.

Not only that, but according to the aforementioned Scott Miller, it’s a safety matter in terms of trying to get some of the damages repaired in the garage as well. NASCAR is trying to keep crew members safe from having to scramble around in the pit as well, especially when there is a lot of debris everywhere when some of the cars are able to limp into the pit.

With the new policy in place, NASCAR is going to award a single point to any driver who finishes 36 or further back in the pack. Even a last-place finish will still be enough to merit a single point.

Some of the additional enhancements to the rule include a speeding penalty in pit lane. When the rule was first instituted, with a five-minute time limit to effectuate the limited type of repairs the new policy restricted them to, the drivers were speeding into the pit, knowing they only had five minutes.

The new enhancements to the original policy include a 15-second penalty for any driver that exceeds the speed limit in the pit, even if it isn’t a scheduled stop and is simply a driver coming in for repairs after an accident.

The new rule is also designed to eliminate repairs that sometimes took place on the track. For instance, a team may run out onto the track in the event of a wreck, with panels and other parts to quickly throw on. That is no longer necessary.

During the five-minute repairs, the crews are also limited on the number of people allowed to work on the car. This includes an allowance for one or two members to actually go under the car once it's lifted.

One thing is for certain, it has certainly reduced the amount of confusion and craziness that goes on in the aftermath of an accident out on the track. Now that damage from a blown tire is considered to be “crash” damage, rather than “mechanical failure,” it can be fixed in the pit, not in the garage.

In the first year of the DVP(Damaged Vehicle Policy) that was instituted was any car on pit road and making repairs were put under a five minute repair clock. Citing discussions with those involve and a learning process from 2017, NASCAR will increase the DVP clock from five minutes to six at all tracks.

Additionally, NASCAR will no longer park cars if hit with a penalty for too many crew over the wall. Instead the car will sit on pit road in their box and serve a two lap penalty before being allowed to return to the event.

On the qualifying side and to increase on track activity in a shortened window of time, NASCAR has cut five minutes from the first round of qualifying. In 2018 the first round of qualifying at all intermediate track and short track will now be reduced to 15 minutes in total.

No change is being made to qualifying that will be held at either Daytona International Speedway or Talladega Superspeedway.

Earlier today all three national series stage lengths were released for competition in 2018 which the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series will see no changes in 2018 aside from the Charlotte Motor Speedway roval race which will be announced prior to the event.

The Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series will see slight changes in 2018. In the Xfinity Series will be the stages at ISM(Phoenix) Raceway and Dover International Speedway ending on laps 45, 90 and 200.

In the truck series will see both events held at Las Vegas ending now on 40, 80 and 134.