NASCAR Executive Vice President of Racing Operations Steve O’Donnell spoke at the Front End of Innovation conference in Boston on Wednesday morning, and announced some NASCAR officiating news for next season.

Starting next season, NASCAR will be implementing their automatic pit road officiating technology, becoming the first sport to use technology to officiate their events.

“Innovation helps drive NASCAR, and it is central to the sport’s evolution,” said O’Donnell. “The next wave of NASCAR innovation is the pit road officiating technology, which will increase the overall quality of in-race officiating.”

O’Donnell said that the technology will be used “on every lap, in every race,” and that testing of the automatic officiating technology is currently underway.

According to the press release from NASCAR, “this innovative pit road technology will employ numerous video cameras, which will be mounted to inspect and gather data – in real time – from all areas of pit road.”