CHEATER!!!
I knew some of these.
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Smokey was just real creative when reading the rule book. I do recall when Dale Earnhardt got caught with bumpers that had been cast out of aluminum and chromed.
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Who said, "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't winnin'!"?
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The fun with anything governed by "rules" is seeing how far you can "bend " them :)
Had a friend that raced NHRA "Modified Production" back in the '60's. When he got the car built it's weight/displacement but it in the middle of the "B" class.
Since ballast wasn't allowed in MP he got to thinking and decided he needed some traction bars.
So he made a set.
They weighed about 150 pounds, just enough to put him at the top of the "C" class and he commenced to win a bunch of races.
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Yunick played at Indianapolis. I hung out there as a child with Dad. Everyone could go in the garages and look see, things were not even close to what they are now on spectators. I was a pest and in the way looking at the cars. At the car in the link I was real interested, the seat was to the left. Mechanics and Smokey were around the car and so was I . Smokey actually said for the kid to get back out of the way.. one Mechanic told him, hey leave the boy alone , someday he might want to race. Smokey looked at me and said..hey kid you want to get in her. I crawled up in the seat and looked around. They pulled me out in just a couple minutes so I could run off and bug someone else. Dad took a black and white picture of that day. He was a grumpy old man , but made my day. This is the car I sat in, it didn't qualify for the race.
https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/another-look-at-smokey-yunicks-capsule-car/
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Wild Turkey: 31547506642203/comments/31547507320731
The fun with anything governed by "rules" is seeing how far you can "bend " them :)
Had a friend that raced NHRA "Modified Production" back in the '60's. When he got the car built it's weight/displacement but it in the middle of the "B" class.
Since ballast wasn't allowed in MP he got to thinking and decided he needed some traction bars.
So he made a set.
They weighed about 150 pounds, just enough to put him at the top of the "C" class and he commenced to win a bunch of races.
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Along those lines bustedknee , "It ain't cheating until you get caught". 😀
A few decades ago before I retired from Allison Gas Turbine, Smokey visited our research lab where I worked. We had a device called 3-D Laser Anemometry where we could see air currents. Before that we could use static pressure taps and (believe it or not) dots of carbon black/ oil dots on surfaces! Smokey contracted us to study cylinder head air flow. Wish I could have met him darn it.
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bustedknee: 31547506642203/comments/31547515828635
Who said, "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't winnin'!"?
Junior Johnson - NASCAR
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