Absolutely hilarious "tweaks" that used to go on .
Absolutely hilarious "tweaks" that used to go on .
your you tube feed must be similar to mine , i also saw that last night.
there are lots of ingenious stories in Motorsport, the toyota restrictor , already mentioned, the ford focus wrc: boost tank in the rear bumper, twr did some clever alteration of volvo touring car heads at great expense to 'comply' with the rules too.
that smokey chap in nascar was very clever, the one that i remember was an inflated basket ball in the fuel tank to reduce capacity of the tank to within the rules, then once deflated allowed more fuel to be added, simple and you really wish that you thought of it first.
its like the kids who were able to put a toe in each corner of the sack and run, rather than jump, in the primary school sack race.
there is a fine line between innovation and cheating, that's why there is a court of arbitration i suppose, its just that in motorsport people aplaud it, but if your a track athlete or cyclist then your innovation is 'sports medicine' and before you know it your lance armstrong or ben johnson.
You aren't wrong at all.
It's an interesting attitude that the guys are quite open about it too. One guy exclaiming it wasn't bending the rules, it was blatant cheating.
Then again many motorsports have a set of rules you have to adhere to. If there isn't a catch all in the rule book, it can be open to interpretation.
I'd favour that era of motorsports personally... when people are able to think or design something radically different to the next person.
that smokey chap in nascar was very clever, the one that i remember was an inflated basket ball in the fuel tank to reduce capacity of the tank to within the rules, then once deflated allowed more fuel to be added, simple and you really wish that you thought of it first.
I think it was the Chris Harris podcast where they were talking about some race where they measure the capacity of the fuel tank after the race, and on the way back to the pits the driver had to manually pump something up in the fuel tank to decrease its capacity. By the time they got back to the pits the drivers were exhausted.