Crew chief Alan Gustafson answers your questions  NASCAR Icons
readers had a number of technical questions that only someone
like Hendrick Motorsports crew chief Alan Gustafson
could answer.  Updated: August 11, 2008, 1:39 PM ET's NASCAR
Icons took some readers' questions and went to Hendrick
Motorsports' Sprint Cup series crew chief Alan Gustafson for the
answers.  [+] EnlargeAlan Gustafson Icon SMINo. 5 crew chief
Alan Gustafson has the answers about shocks and springs. After
some experience as a crew chief in the Craftsman truck series
and Late Model Stock Car series and chief engineer in the
Nationwide series, Gustafson joined Hendrick in 1999. He worked
in the chassis shop before becoming the shock specialist for the
No. 5 car in 2000 and the lead engineer for the No. 5 in 2002.
In 2005 Gustafson became the crew chief for the No. 5 car driven
then by Kyle Busch. That's where Gustafson remains today,
although Casey Mears took over as driver for the 2008 season.
Here are your questions and Gustafson's an