the 67 Chevelle with all the tricks, like moving the body on the chassis for better weight distribution
and the 2" diameter fuel pipe that alone, could hold gallons of gas, allowing the fuel tank requirement to be ignored
The lightweight Camaro was 270 pounds under a stock Camaro, mostly through acid dipping
the stuff others came up with was the trunk rule - that a car had to be able to carry a suitcase, so, they made the gas tank big enough to fit one, and avoided having a trunk wasting space and adding material to the race car
the stuff others came up with was the trunk rule - that a car had to be able to carry a suitcase, so, they made the gas tank big enough to fit one, and avoided having a trunk wasting space and adding material to the race car
the T Rex Jeff Gordon car
the Double Diffuser
the suspension trick that Gordon Murray came up with in 1981, to allow speed to push the car to lower than spec height, but return to spec for pre and post race inspections
the Red Bull flex wing,
I love racing cheat information, how they innovated to get around the rules, and what they did that succeeded, or were caught doing
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I heard Mark Donahue and Roger Penske had two identical cars. One to qualify, one to race. One was so thin you couldn't lean on it for fear you'd punch a hole in it.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the Smokey Yunick fuel thing: After he won a race, the officials challenged him about the size of the tank and made him remove it. After a while he got tired of dealing with them, threw the tank in the back and drove back to the pits on the fuel in the lines. Also heard he, or someone like him, used to run the lines all over the car. Even heard someone ran it through the roll cage.