C-Post Template Coming

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New C-Post template to debut at 'Dega: NASCAR will add a new template to its inspection process when teams go through tech May 4 at Talladega Superspeedway. It's a template inspired by Hendrick Motorsports and five-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson's team. Starting May 4-6 at Talladega, NASCAR will begin using an additional template for the C-post, the area of the car from the roof to the top of the rear quarter panel.(Sporting News)(4-13-2012)
 
:D Sure did'nt take them long to develop this template. Gosh if Chad and JJ's car was legal why'd they have to come up with another template ;)
 
FlFlash said:
:D Sure did'nt take them long to develop this template. Gosh if Chad and JJ's car was legal why'd they have to come up with another template ;)
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Actually, I thought they'd already have a template by now.
 
FlFlash said:
:D Sure did'nt take them long to develop this template. Gosh if Chad and JJ's car was legal why'd they have to come up with another template ;)
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One could say, the opposite. If the C-post was illegal then why the new template?
 
Had to see this coming, but I still say "cheating " is a relative term, if your not pushing the rule book to it's limit your not competing. Remember Smokey Yunick? I hope someone figures a way around this template as well.
 
Dwayne said:
Had to see this coming, but I still say "cheating " is a relative term, if your not pushing the rule book to it's limit your not compeating. Remember Smokey Yunick? I hope someone figures a way around this template as well.
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Referring to Chad as a cheater is just lazy.
 
Dwayne said:
Had to see this coming, but I still say "cheating " is a relative term, if your not pushing the rule book to it's limit your not competing. Remember Smokey Yunick? I hope someone figures a way around this template as well.
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Smokey never cheated he was just the reason for more new rules than any other crew chief in history.

Now Gary Nelson is an entirely different story he was the cheatingest CC in NASCAR before Chad came along.
 
FlFlash said:
Smokey never cheated he was just the reason for more new rules than any other crew chief in history.

Now Gary Nelson is an entirely different story he was the cheatingest CC in NASCAR before Chad came along.
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Were you ever a barber , Flash ? Yall seem pretty good a hair splittin.:D
 
ted@economy said:
Were you ever a barber , Flash ? Yall seem pretty good a hair splittin.:D
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Never a barber.

Smokey followed the rules that where written at the time he exploited the areas in the rule book that where Not Covered, thats not cheating in my opinion.

Most of the guys now a days spend their time looking for ways to hide the cheating their doing instead of finding the areas that can be worked in to go faster, thats cheating.

Gary Nelson did things way way on the far side of cheating, hidden nitrous systems, bolts that sheared at low contact, driver adjustable wedge bolts, flexing panels, lightened rollcages, shifting and dropping ballast.
I personaly saw a qualifying engine that had a 3.48 stroke and 4.030 cylinders in four cylinders and a 3.750 stroke and 4.125 bore on the other four. NASCAR inspectors used to always pump the right front cylinder due to ease of access invaribly testing a legal cylinder.
 
FlFlash said:
Never a barber.

Smokey followed the rules that where written at the time he exploited the areas in the rule book that where Not Covered, thats not cheating in my opinion.

Most of the guys now a days spend their time looking for ways to hide the cheating their doing instead of finding the areas that can be worked in to go faster, thats cheating.

Gary Nelson did things way way on the far side of cheating, hidden nitrous systems, bolts that sheared at low contact, driver adjustable wedge bolts, flexing panels, lightened rollcages, shifting and dropping ballast.
I personaly saw a qualifying engine that had a 3.48 stroke and 4.030 cylinders in four cylinders and a 3.750 stroke and 4.125 bore on the other four. NASCAR inspectors used to always pump the right front cylinder due to ease of access invaribly testing a legal cylinder.
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Sounds like you know allot about this, maybe you can help me, one of my favorite stories about cheating was a Car back in the 70's, it was getting way to much gas mileage so after the race Nascar tore it down, they couldn't find anything and the owner was so pissed off that they tore his car apart he drove the car back to the garage with no fuel cell...LOL Can't remember where I read this, can you help?
P.S. In my opinion that's exactly what the 48 team did, they found a part of the rule book that wasn't covered and tried to exploit it.
 
Dwayne said:
Sounds like you know allot about this, maybe you can help me, one of my favorite stories about cheating was a Car back in the 70's, it was getting way to much gas mileage so after the race Nascar tore it down, they couldn't find anything and the owner was so pissed off that they tore his car apart he drove the car back to the garage with no fuel cell...LOL Can't remember where I read this, can you help?
P.S. In my opinion that's exactly what the 48 team did, they found a part of the rule book that wasn't covered and tried to exploit it.
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Before the Fuel Injected cars we have now the cars had carburetors, mechanical fuel pumps fuel logs and lines on them. The carburetors used a fuel bowl on each end which would hold almost a pint of fuel an additional couple pints would be left in the fuel pump, fuel lines and fuel log. Thats more than enough to start the car and drive it back to the garage area.
That story is normaly circulated around a Smokey Yunick incedent that occured in 1966 at Daytona NASCAR, tech officials had removed the fuel tank from the car and found it legal but told Smokey he could'nt run the car anyway....... a PO'd Smokey got in the car and drove it back to the garage area....without the fuel tank.
There's Alot of storys about Smokey some embellished some not, Smokey himself was very good at distracting people by having them look at one thing when what was really happening was somewhere else. Incredible inovator and the originator of "Thinking Outside the Box" and a Real Charactor!

I disagree on the 48's C-pillar they where illegal according to NASCAR, the failure in the system was NASCAR did not have the correct wording to cover the infraction according to todays "system" thats why NASCAR has developed another template.
 
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