Racing Episode 9

The man keys for great team work.

Ryan Newman: "There's a ton of different responsibilities that go into a race team. Ultimately, what you see is the racecar and the racecar driver on a given 500-mile race or any 500-mile race competing and seeing a result. But what you don't see is all the behind the scenes work that goes into building the racecar; maintaining the racecar; prepping it logistically; taking it to the racetrack. And being a part of what NASCAR does each and every week. When they bring the haulers in, when everything has to be on time to the minute, there's a lot of prep work that goes into a racecar."

Ryan Newman: "When I'm driving, two people I only ever usually talk to is my crew chief and my spotter. And more often than not I'm listening to my spotter, and it's a 50/50 balance between talking and listening to my crew chief ‘cause I need to know what's going on with the race to understand you know our strategy, our pit window, what our tire cycles are, and things like that.'"

Staff Sergeant - Kristopher Smith: "Yes, communications is, that's one of the biggest things that we need to fight. I mean if you can't communicate, then you won't know where guys are on the battlefield. And the same thing I guess with the racing guys. They got communications with commo, where they're driving and they're talking to their pit crews and giving them updates about what’s going on. We do the same thing in Army. We'll call SITREP back to headquarters if we're out and let them know we're at this grid such and such so they can keep a track of us while we're out. So commo it's big. It's one of the biggest things."

Specialist - Nathan Miller: "Communication is important to anything. It's the flow of information and ideas to one person to another. And if you have a team that communicates really well and keeps everybody informed then you have a very highly effective team whether there be trained lieutenants or in combat."