Telemetry Boxes: A total of 31 teams ran Sunday’s race with telemetry boxes that were made optional after a battery pack powering one caught on fire in Robby Gordon’s car caught on fire last week at Watkins Glen. All 43 cars ran the boxes in all of the previous Cup races this season. Ten cars ran in-car cameras.(That’s Racin’) AND The latest on the TV telemetry box debate: Jeff Gordon, Ricky Rudd and Dale Jarrett were among the most prominent drivers whose car owners rejected mounting the boxes this week(Winston Salem Journal)(8-20-2001)
