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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4264635" data-attributes="member: 5412">Like back in the good ol&#039; days when Smokey Yunick was Crew Chief for lots of racers. &quot;Ninety percent of the so-called cheating that was innovated, it wasn&#039;t cheating,&quot; Yunick said, citing as an example a Chevrolet he entered at the Daytona 500 in 1968. &quot;There was no rule on how big the gas line could be. Everyone else ran a 5/8-inch gas line. That was adequate to supply the race engine with gas, no question about it. I chose to run a two-inch gas line, which was obviously much too big, but it was 11 feet long and it held five gallons of gas. Nobody ever [specified size]. A week after the race, the gas line couldn&#039;t be over a half-inch in diameter. The day that I did it, it was not illegal.They won the race because they could carry an extra five gallons of fuel!That was NASCAR back in the day. Real racing and &quot;innovation&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 4264635, member: 5412"] Like back in the good ol' days when Smokey Yunick was Crew Chief for lots of racers. "Ninety percent of the so-called cheating that was innovated, it wasn't cheating," Yunick said, citing as an example a Chevrolet he entered at the Daytona 500 in 1968. "There was no rule on how big the gas line could be. Everyone else ran a 5/8-inch gas line. That was adequate to supply the race engine with gas, no question about it. I chose to run a two-inch gas line, which was obviously much too big, but it was 11 feet long and it held five gallons of gas. Nobody ever [specified size]. A week after the race, the gas line couldn't be over a half-inch in diameter. The day that I did it, it was not illegal. They won the race because they could carry an extra five gallons of fuel! That was NASCAR back in the day. Real racing and "innovation". [/QUOTE]

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