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CHEATER!!!
Ricci.Wright
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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.
Who said, "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't winnin'!"?
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.
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/
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.
Junior Johnson - NASCAR