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by arwineap
1327 days ago
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You're thinking of Smokey Yunick, and that's just a taste of his antics Check out the "reverse torque special" where he reversed the direction of his engine, so the tq pull would naturally turn him in the correct direction for nascar Or when he modified the roof and raised the floor to get a more aerodynamic car Or when he qualified with wheel covers, and cut them out before the race ( rules didn't stipulate you had to cut them before qualifying ) The guy was a legend, and I think racing would be much more interesting if we had more of him |
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Or load the car with cold (more dense) fuel.
Or (allegedly) race a 15/16ths scale car with a matching 15/16ths scale street car strategically parked in the track parking lot so the scrutineers could compare against a stock car and see that it matched.
Or built a race engine with the correct size cylinder in the easiest to measure location and oversized cylinders in every other position.
Other racers had special lead-filled radios and overweight helmets that would be in the car for tech, then get changed out before qualifying. Or lead shot filled in the frame rails and a wax seal or threaded fitting to keep it in. Darrell Waltrip tells a hilarious story where the threaded seal was in the jack point and NASCAR jacked the car to go look for it. Moving bars of Mallory (tungsten, basically) from the right to left after passing tech. Another racer was caught with a 22 gallon tank (20 was the limit at the time), apologized and agreed to change it. (He changed it to a 28 gallon tank.)