| Auto racing is a sport that has some simple roots, but | | | | the track because the drivers can communicate track |
| has grown very technical and complex over the last | | | | problems to their crew before they become too big. |
| decade. One of the areas where it has become a little | | | | NASCAR also saw a way to take advantage of the |
| more complex is in the communication. In the early | | | | two way radios to help the marketing of their sport. |
| days of racing, crews would communicate to their | | | | Uniden NASCAR scanners became a very big part of |
| drivers through a pit board. They would right thinks on | | | | the races once the two way radios became a part of |
| the chalk board and then hold it out for their driver to | | | | the sport. The reason that this was the case was |
| see as they went by. | | | | because NASCAR mandated that each team give |
| Today, drivers use two way communication radios. | | | | them their channel on the radio so that those in the |
| The driver is able to push a button on the steering | | | | stands with the scanners could listen in on the |
| wheel and talk to their team and they are able to push | | | | conversations of their favorite driver with their crew |
| as button on their headphones and talk back. This has | | | | chief. This gives the guy in the stands a chance to |
| been a way to improve the speed with which the | | | | know what is going on and to hear the strategy that |
| races are conducted as well as improve conditions on | | | | they are planning to win a race. |