In a move that has shocked the Nascar world, journeyman driver Timmy Hill has signs with Joe Gibbs Racing shortly after this weekend’s race at Martinsville.
“I don’t know how this happened, its such a shock to all of us”, Hill said. “I guess my pit signs just got mixed up with some of JGR’s equipment and they took it back to their shop by mistake.”
Hill debuted his brand-new Truck Series team on Saturday. With so many first-time employees and Hill himself both driving for and running the team, that may have been what caused the mix-up.
“We took our equipment back to the shop late Saturday Night—by the time we unloaded Sunday Morning, we saw that we were missing the pit road sign we used to stop the truck in the right stall”, Hill said. “We put something out of Twitter, half-joking, asking if anyone had seen a slightly-used pit board and the backup sign we hang over the stall.
“We got a response pretty quickly from the Joe Gibbs Racing guys saying they found it in Kyle Busch’s pit stall Sunday before the race”, Hill explained. “They joked about holding it for ‘ransom’, but they said they can drop it off on their way back to Huntersville (North Carolina) Monday.”
The news has rippled quickly throughout the sport.
“This reminds me of the time I signed with Team Penske”, driver Corey LaJoie said. “It was one of those track-wide signings on pit road, and by mistake I sat down with Brad (Keselowski) and Joey (Logano) instead of where I was supposed to. Boy, was my face red!”
Hill said that once his pit sign is returned, he will continue to focus on growing his Truck Series team into a weekly contender for top-20s and separating his unibrow.