This is one of the most awesome racing videos we have seen in a long, long time. Called, “Racing Around The Rules,” it is a panel discussion of crew chiefs, racers, and innovators who pushed the rules. The stories about finding creative interpretations of the rule book, outright cheating, hiding stuff, and walking the thinnest line the rulebook allowed are great.
Maybe our favorite part is the tech guy who talks about all the stuff they KNEW was going on with IMSA and how they kind of let it go because the racing was really good and there was no black and white letters in the book to strictly prohibit it.
The man leading the panel is Ray Evernham and he’s a really good moderator because he knows the panelists, was a man who worked hard to beat the rule book in his career, and is respected all over the world of racing.
Andy Petree is one of the guys and he tells a real great story about trying to make his car work better when NASCAR came up with a spoiler rule. A trip to the grocery store in his wife’s car helped him make his car car much faster. It is fantastic.
This is the type of stuff that we love about racing and it is still going on today!
Damn cheaters! Love them all!
Swearing on Smokies book…..
Truth as far as you remember it.
I wasn’t a hard core IMSA guy,but a certain AMA Superbike team would refuel with a closed system.
In the book Chevrolet In Drag Racing by Doug Boyce, he spills some of the beans on Grump’s second Monster Mash 55 Chevy. He hogged out all the body mounts and slid the body back on the chassis. He melted lead and coated the rear inner fenders. The cam NHRA said he had to run didn’t meet GM’s own specs, so General Kinetics made a cam to the exact spec and stamped GM part numbers on them. The grill was made out of a TV antenna, Grumpy felt the stock grill was too heavy. And like the Porsche team, years later someone got ahold of Monster Mash Two and called Grump while trying to restore it and the quarter panels didn’t fit.