Pitwall and the person behind it
The person
I am Bart, a lifelong car fanatic with a passion for racing. I started following NASCAR in 2020, for the simplest of reasons: in the European off-season, Daytona is basically the only racing going on. I have been hooked ever since.
NASCAR is one of the very few things that brings together everything that gets me excited: fast cars, spectacle, drama, the real-world roots of the sport, the storylines, the history. Part of that is the American dream, which lives strong in me. NASCAR has become my weekly gateway on Sunday evenings and Monday mornings, dreaming about dirt roads and, well, the American dream.
On a personal note: in 2020 I planned to visit the United States and a NASCAR race for my honeymoon. Then the pandemic happened. Since then life, and kids, have overtaken me and I have not yet had the chance to make that bucket-list item come true. It is still on the list.
By day I run ByteBolt, where we build software for electrical engineering and installation companies. Pitwall is what happens when that toolbox meets a Sunday-evening obsession.
The project
Pitwall is a fan-built NASCAR data site: every race since 1949, every lap, pit stop and caution since 2020, NASCAR's official points with the playoff rules of each era, running-speed statistics that go past the box score, a live race center with commentary transcription, pre-race previews, and an assistant you can ask anything about the sport.
It is independent and not affiliated with NASCAR. Data comes from public NASCAR timing feeds and community box scores; the computed metrics are documented on the pages that show them (hover any column header).
It costs money to run: a server, data, and the AI behind the assistant. If it earns a spot on your race-day screen, chip in.
Found a mistake? Tell me. Correctness matters more here than polish.