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| rob guess (Beast)
New member Username: Beast Post Number: 24 Registered: 5-2003 |
Damon; If you look at some of the on board camera shots from this year you can still see the front wing end flap flexing down on a fast straight and then once the driver goes to break the end flap flips back up. I am suprised that the FIA has not had anything to say about this one the cars of note have been Williams, Jordan, And Minardi that i have seen this on all the other cars Ferrari included i have yet to see a front wing shot that shows the end flap. | ||
| Bruce R. Morehead (Brm)
New member Username: Brm Post Number: 29 Registered: 4-2002 |
Don't forget Penske's dry ice cooled fueling rig that gave his car more fuel per 22 gal. load as the fuel expanded as it came to normal temp. Also the 4 bolt wheels that saved time on tire changes. They were legal at the time but were outlawed by NASCAR. | ||
| DamonB (Prova7)
Junior Member Username: Prova7 Post Number: 67 Registered: 7-2002 |
Don't forget Ferrari's flexible front wings. | ||
| DamonB (Prova7)
Junior Member Username: Prova7 Post Number: 66 Registered: 7-2002 |
I forget who deserves the credit, who was it in the NASCAR 80's with "quick disconnect" rear bumpers on their Buicks? They rigged the bumper so it would fall off with the slightest contact. A slight bump draft in the race and the whole rear end would come off! Less drag and more speed on the super speedways! | ||
| DamonB (Prova7)
Junior Member Username: Prova7 Post Number: 65 Registered: 7-2002 |
My favorites are still Penske's acid dipped Camaros in Trans Am. They had to add vinyl tops because the roof skin got so thin it wouldn't stay smooth; the vinyl hid it. They also had the fender liners and the front/rear edges of the doors removed so air could travel from the engine compartment, through the doors and out the back of the cars. The refueling rig was like 20 feet tall with big hoses. A full tank of fuel would literally slam into the tank within a couple seconds and the car would be off! All these stories from Mark Donahue's book. | ||
| arthur chambers (Art355)
Intermediate Member Username: Art355 Post Number: 1924 Registered: 6-2001 |
A current classic, I won't name names: Formula USA has a Horsepower limit. Both before and after the race, you must put the bike on a Dynojet, and if it makes more than 143HP, you are disqualified. One of the teams wired up an ignition box, with a trigger on the front wheel. When the bike is going over 15 mph, the ignition changes, HP goes up to 165. They've not discovered this, and the 20 HP advantage has turned into a win or two. Probably legal. Art | ||
| Tillman Strahan (Tillman)
Member Username: Tillman Post Number: 694 Registered: 11-2001 |
My favorite is the 1966 Ford Galaxy designed by Junior Johnson. It too ran only one race, and was banned due to it's excessive body modifications...  It's known now as the "Banana Car", for obvious reasons | ||
| rob guess (Beast)
New member Username: Beast Post Number: 19 Registered: 5-2003 |
Bob; I could go on for days with this one from my own antics when i raced motocross and jet ski's. For example here are a few of my twisting of the grey areas in the rule book. 1. at one jet ski national i was running 50% Nitro Propane 2 in my fuel. The only problem was the fact theat my jetting was so rich to keep the motor from melting down i used 6 gallons in a 12 miniute race!! The real dead give away was the toxic fumes comming out of the exhaust outlet that made you want to claw your eyeballs out and toss your lunch!! 2. Running a ported and polished cyl in the "Stock" class. the only way the tech inspectors never caught on to it was the fact that i repainted the cylinders with the OEM color intentionaly over spraying into the ports, so to the naked eye it looked as if the cylinder had came straight out of the factory. 3. I know of a few cart teams that was running titanium brake rotors with a cast iron coating applied to them so when the rotors were teched the inspectors magnets would stick to them. Give a racer a couple of inches to play with and we will try and take a mile or more. Also dont forget after Nascar started to spray the intake manifolds the engine builders started to drill holes in the blocks the went back to the bell housing area allowing more air into the engine in the plate races. after that Nascar started to X-Ray the blocks. | ||
| Bob Campen (Bob308gts)
Member Username: Bob308gts Post Number: 669 Registered: 9-2001 |
In all racing venues there are rules that can be interpreted different from what was meant. A few I know about are mainly from Nascar, but are interesting. Smokey Yunick was famous for his rule bending, one time he showed with an 8/10th scale Chevelle, I think it ran once, profile templates came into use in Nascar soon after. Another time he was being checked for fuel capacity, after a long check including removal of the fuel tank they couldn�t find anything, and released the car, Smokey hopped in and started it up and drove away, fuel tank was still on the ground. A more recent one involved special casting of the intake manifold so it was pourous, this was only used when the restrictor plates were used, the pourous casting helped make up for the lost air flow, spraying the intake manifold became a normal check in tech inspection soon after. |