How to Cheat at NASCAR

if you go to nascar race you ever notice that cars are all parked right next to each other the best officials are your competition because if they see something they're going to tell on you so today we have i mean you know go to a nascar inspection today because of us cheating call it what you want cheating nascar has had to step in and we have a thousand templates we have a hundred officials we have i mean it's gotten ridiculous i mean but if they don't do it if they set an eighth we take a quarter if they say a quarter we take a half i mean you they have to do it so nascar at the end of the day draws a line if i go to the racetrack and i see a car they didn't get through inspection the first time because the fender didn't fit the template whatever i don't think they're cheating i think they're just trying to get a little too much when the race is over if if the quarter panels are half inch high and hey they were cheating you know they were cheating and so it really it really is the type of thing that you do you know a lot of cars don't go through inspection the first time they have trouble going through inspection but you better not have it after the race and and if the back of a car gets high or the roof gets low then then you know or if the engine wasn't built you know then then we can talk about cheating i had so much stuff i had a hydraulic water power inside the car where i just adjusted a wedge i had cool coming into the engine air cool nitrous you know hydrogen peroxide i had the big fuel tank i used to have with the electric pump inside it the tank would hold 28 gallons you know you only allowed 22 gallons you know it was just this 55 chevrolet i built nascar the first race told me if they could find one thing legal they were going to pass me that was at hickory motor speedway and they found the steering wheel that's all they found andy petrie i don't know if you're going to talk to him of this but you should because he was earnhardt's crew for a while and andy andy actually taught me a lot some good things some not so good things but andy and those guys uh i won't say who he was with because i don't know if they got away with or not but andy and those guys and he's retired now so i can tell the story they built a deck lid for daytona and they used uh deck pins that were mounted on kind of an electronic antenna screw so that when the driver went down the straightaway he could just push a button and the whole deck lid and spoiler would would go down and let the car go faster on the straightaway and then when he came in for inspection he just raised it back up like a power antenna so that was that was pretty cool nowadays they use precision digital scales that are down to the nth pound and they're measured at all four wheels and it's very sophisticated process in the old days in the 60s nascar used to use grain scales and freight scales that really weren't very accurate and a lot of times what guys would do is they'd load stuff up in the cars that would add increase the weight of the car as it went over the scales there was one case where a guy had a helmet made of lead that he had pain in the helmet probably weighed 50 or 60 pounds junior johnson used to have his guys carry thermoses in the car and they'd be filled with mercury they've been cases where radios have been made out of lead one of the most famous incidents um involved gary nelson he was crew chief for kyle petty and and did this with daryl walter also is they would take 300 pounds or so of buckshot and fill it in the frame rails and on the opening laps of the race when when they're under yelling and pace laps the driver would hit a lever and a door would open up and all these pellets would come running down and all of a sudden the car would be 300 pounds lighter and you wouldn't necessarily they'd all run to the inside because you're on a high bank track where it's going to be rolling downhill and the genius of it the real genius of it was nobody could ever find it on nelson's cars and that's because the exit the door where this opened was where the car was jacked up there's a little post where you put the jack and lift the car up on the side and the the door was right under there so they'd lift the car up and they'd get under it and they'd look and they'd spend hours looking for it and they could never find it and and that's because he knew they'd be looking for it so he camouflaged it it was genius i'm not going to mention any team's names but there was a team that that they built their tires would have like 50 pounds of lead in the right side tires and the first pit stop they would went as soon as they could they'd pit and get those right sides off the car would be 100 lighter they'd have a whole lot more left side balance and all of a sudden here this car would come up through there and he'd drive away the coolest thing is you teach guys how to carry the car through and when you got ready to go especially checking the weight card we have to weigh you know 3 400 pounds at that time or 3 700 pounds whichever it was you'd have guys designated all right this is your corner this is your cornish your corner now if so-and-so looks at you you know you got to pick it up everybody had to be paying attention everybody had to understand that when this was all said and done the car had to weigh so much and not get caught with your hands on the car i mean it was like everybody my hands would be up but there need to be on the bumper my hands would be up what do you back away from the car as soon as you back away the other guy had to come up and hold the same amount of pressure on it and you'd work on that we had a camshaft in the frame rail underneath the car so the inspector bring the cam over you know to give it to you and you'd hand it to you know he's standing there watching and one of the guys would walk up and bump into it we just give a switch you know you'd be surprised some of this stuff that was being switched around and this kind of stuff you know working with the engine was the most common because you need horsepower and they and when you was at a super speedway you had to pull one cylinder head off and they inspect the carburetor and stuff like that and you put a cheater head on on the left side so you put a legal head on the right and then when you pull it off for the inspector and you let him inspect the one that's legal well then between you've got to get him to look away or something and you have one under a a fender cover and you yank the good one out and put it and hide the other one such as a carburetor the car had a a in a firewall had a place where the heater goes so you take the heater out and you put a box in there out of aluminum and you put that thing on with zeus fasteners so you got the cheater carburetor in where the heater was and uh so they give you time to get the the carburetor they set it there and then they come back they'll walk away and go and come back and seal it once you get it all hooked up and the throttle link is checked well you switch them and he maybe just walked to the back of the car well the oven goes in the heater box one of the classic faints also is when you when you get caught with an illegal part to replace it with one that's equally illegal um it martinsville in the 60s fred lorenzon drove for holman and moody and the rules stipulated 22 gallon fuel cell and he got caught with one that was 23 gallons and the nascar inspectors raised all kinds of cane with him and the holman moody guys went back to the truck and said fine and put one in the car that was 28 gallons and he won the race to run good to trick somebody to to win a race is is a high on its own that i don't i've never found any other way to substitute it and once you get it once you feel it once you find it it's uh you just yearn for it again and again and again and again and it's that's true you will go at any length to make it happen now nascar knows that because about half of those guys at some point or time in their life were razors so they know what it's like they know what that drug is all about they know what we're looking for and the ones that do it and do it good from nascar's side they they don't take it personal they know that we're there to trick them and they're there to catch us and it's almost like a big game

Channel: NascarAllOut

Views: 309,178

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Id: H0ChDihVUu4

Length: 8min 31sec (511 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 09 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/RotaryGunner]

Rodney Childers on Cole Pearn

"We respect each other, don’t rat each other out. We see things on their car and don’t say a word and they see stuff on ours and they don’t say a word. That’s a lot of mutual respect.”

[u/mcmustang51]

Larry Mac did a sponsored video series about different ways teams "innovated"

Pushing the Envelope

[u/Mother-Row-1995]

Welcome to the National Association for Scheming, Cheating and Racing, folks!

[u/VladimirSteel]

I need to hear more about the trunk pin trick. That one sounds pretty over the top

[u/Welcometopopmart]

I thought this was a really interesting video talking about the history of bending the rules in the sport from members of the sport themselves and thought i’d share.

[u/ImaginaryHippo88]

For anyone who's interested, the dinner with racers series on prime has a great episode about smokey yunick

[u/MutatedSpleen]

Holy shit, Michael McSwain looks terrible. Is he okay?