The greatest CHEATS in racing history

He claimed that half of Nascar's rule book in the '70s was due to him. I love

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cars. I love old race cars. I love modern

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cars and racing is great and great racing is great and great racing drivers are great, but. What I really appreciate about race cars are the tricks. I love traps. One of the biggest cheaters of all time. I mean, the all-time rules interpreter was Smokey Eunuch. Smokey Eunuch was a Nascar model. He went over all the rules. Back then, Nascar's rules were relatively weak. He said if he's not in the rule book, that means he can do it.

If you didn't put it here, it's allowed and he tried all kinds of crazy things over the years, but he nailed it. in his most famous car that he never actually raced, a 1968 chevy chevelle, that chevelle that i got very close to in all its materials and all because bruce kampa with mark mantanos and some other people owned it and it went through the shop and went to a museum and briefly got to see it and put my hands on it and I never forgot it my head was like oh this is amazing I want to see if all the rumors are true now here are the rumors here is Smokey told these stories a lot Many times he has a great autobiography that I would recommend reading, it's like three volumes, the man could talk and even told the story differently each time, but they had been developing the Chevys and he had been doing all kinds of difficult little things for him and this car was kind of a masterpiece and he built it just for the Daytona 500.

He kept it completely secret and the legend was that it was 7 8 scale of a regular Chevelle and that's actually not true, it was a regular Chevelle, it wasn't going to downsize a car, but it did all kinds of interesting things to it, as the chassis itself never stipulated where it had to be on the car, so we moved the chassis back and to the side. Like everything, the driver, the entire centerline of the car changed under the body to get better weight distribution for the Daytona corners. So they never really stipulated what the floor was supposed to be like.

These cars never had fins like the prototypes and things like that, but that fin works aerodynamically cleans the air moving under the car, so he lowered the floor a few inches so that it surrounded the exhaust in all the lines and essentially made a car with a floor flat. He grabbed the front bumper and shook it. He put it on the end so the air would move perfectly around it, then he lengthened the bottom to make it an air dam, then he took the back of the roof and just curved it up a little so the air would flow up. above and on the rear spoiler and this famous story tells that he took the car for inspection and they took it apart and one of the inspections is to see how much fuel is in the gas tank.

He now he had already cheated on this before he was famous for putting a basketball in a gas tank, so you brought, I don't know what the exact size was, but you said you could have 26 gallons. He would make a 28 gallon tank, put a basketball in it and they would measure how much liquid. came out and it would be 26 gallons and then he would deflate the basketball, take it out and have two extra gallons in there, so there you throw the tank, a lot of rules in Nascar, in fact, he claimed that half of the Nascar rule book over the years 70 were thanks to him and I wouldn't be surprised, so they dropped the tank and the story goes that it's like you have 10 or nine violations, we have 10 violations with your car and we have to fix them and he yells that that's stupid and he gets in the car and he makes 11 start the car and he leaves without a tank of gas and drives all the way back to his store in Daytona Beach and it's one of my favorite ridiculous stories, now no one seems to remember that this really happened, Smokey says yes, Smokey says no, the truth behind that story is that they never stipulated how big the fuel line could be, so the fuel line on Smokey's chevelle was 11 feet long and two inches wide and could hold. itself, a couple of gallons of fuel, another story I heard that I'm not sure was ever confirmed was that he knew the car would be examined.

Everything he got was examined, so he made another chevelle, a street chevelle with all the little adjustments he had made. and he parked it in the parking lot and made a template for his car and now they make a template that is pretty standard in Nascar, you fit the template over the profile of the car, it's legal, if something sticks out of the template it's illegal and smoke is another . The reason for these rules and Smokey says I made a template and he fits it on the race car. Look, and they say, "Well, how do we know it's a real Chevelle template?" He's going well, let's go out to the parking lot and look for a Chevelle and conveniently right in front there's a Chevelle park there and they take it and put it on top and it fits perfectly because it's the default car that he made.

Now I don't have confirmation of that either, but that's another big hoax.

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but I think they are really good cheaters, I mean the ones who find the unfair advantage because they had Mark Donahue racing for them and Mark Donahue is an absolute hero to me because he was not only a brilliant racer but also an engineer like his cars they wouldn't have done it. which they did without his exact input in engineering and hard work, so they brought him into Penske. Penske was doing Trans Am in the late 60's. Trans Am cars are pony cars like Mustangs, Camaros, Javelinas, etc., and are relatively available for training. and technically they have to use off-the-shelf parts so that car you see racing on the weekend is the car you can buy on Monday.

It's the idea to run on Sunday, shop on Monday, so they're looking for ways to make them. lighter, faster, whatever, so their camaro they dipped the whole car in acid, they put the whole car in a tank of acid that burned the steel and they had a special equation like it was this amount of time that you would take it out and you would neutralize. and it would shave hundreds of pounds off of these cars because these are not chassis cars, they are unibody cars, so the entire unibody goes in there and the steel is so thin that they essentially have to build a roll cage strong enough to hold the car. together like in wipe situations, the transfer of loads from one corner to another goes through the body, but the body would have collapsed, so they built a roll cage and people said it's a huge roll cage and they say it's just we want to be We sure want Mark to be safe and the story goes that when the technicians came and put his clipboard on the ceiling and went to get it, they leaned against the ceiling and the ceiling just went paper thin and he says: what's going on?

Go on with it, but I don't know, that's, um, that's unfortunate, it must be the sun that caused it, which possibly could have happened and they figured it out and supposedly in that race they went to a local dealership, bought another camaro and they changed it. but that submerged car was supposedly moved with different numbers so they wouldn't know which car was submerged in acid and Penske had this fantastic clean image, his cars were always beautiful like he was one of the first owners of equipment that the car had to be perfectly painted everything is clean everyone is clean was like a professional organization that led that type of process that led to the incredible organization that has that type of attention to detail today but he was a cheater and Donahue helped him every step of the process. the way because after that year, I think it was '68 or '69, so in '70 they started running javelins and they need to find the unfair advantage in the javelin.

Now I have to get my hands on this javelin because it was the only one, Bruce. Canapa drives it now and it's a fantastic car. Bruce knocks it out of the park and if you ever get the chance to watch historic Trans Am racing, I highly recommend it. Everyone knows each other and if you want to see a display of these cars. Taking it on is great and the noises are great, but that javelin has a few tricks up its sleeve. Like I said before, they had to use factory parts and they don't really tell you what factory it had to come from, so at that point.

The Porsche 917 was going to be the dominant car in 1970 in drag racing, so Penske said: Hmm, you know, I could use some bigger front brakes for my Javelin, go get some Porsche brakes, take them to a dealer. AMC and ask them to put in an AMC part number. In it and sell it to me at the counter. I now have AMC brakes that look eerily similar to the 917 brakes. He puts them on the Javelin. Another thing they would do in Trans Am would be the pit stops and they would change the brakes during the race because They are heavy cars, you can imagine changing the brake pads on the hot brakes and in the heat it would take minutes, so they got another brake booster, so What a brake booster in a car is there to provide vacuum advantage when you press the brake, they show power brakes.

There is a vacuum that helps your foot to push the brakes well, they got a second brake booster and put it inside the car, it is like on the foot, it is a factory part that technically does not do a factory job because what it was used for was when went into the pit and stopped, pulled a lever to make the vacuum run in reverse and sucked the brake pads away from the rotor, so all they had to do was go dink dink dink, the brakes went They had gone, so instead of minutes it was seconds. they could change the brakes on this car illegal unfair advantage not technically what I liked the most was that they messed with the way they fueled these cars now up to that point you had fuel jugs and you stuck the fuel in and you waited and you put it in and it took a little while of time and these cars used a lot of fuel, they had big fuel tanks, so it would take time to fill them with fuel, well, they said they didn't want to wait that long, so in a race there is a huge fuel tank, this big fuel tank.

Sunoco fuel and is about five feet off the ground. It has a hose that goes to the back of the car and they connect the hose and they open the thing and gravity pulls it into the fuel. tank and this is during a practice and the other teams say what is that and it actually wasn't that fast and they say okay so they didn't raise a stink and they're looking and is it legal? There's nothing in the rules that says you can't do it, well, the next morning comes and the fuel tank is now 20-25 feet in the air.

Now physics dictates that every foot in the air increases the pressure on the fuel by an enormous quotient. They come in, plug this thing in, flip a switch, and in about three and a half seconds there's 30 gallons in the car. Donahue says in his book that the card just goes boom, like boom. The gas is on click bam and gone and then our team says, come on, really, and of course it was only used a few times and it was made illegal because of the danger of it blowing away in the wind or whatever, but here it is this incredible advantage that they simply invented. out of nowhere at all levels, from the extremely rich racers to the extremely poor, everyone is looking for that unfair advantage and I guess that's life, we really are all looking for the unfair advantage, we are all looking for that little moment where we can sneak through. pass and get a little more, but it's always more fun when that happens at 200 miles an hour.

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