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I remember a story about a touring car team.......
They had an illegally light car, and so decided to use it in qaulifying. It went out and of course, set pole by a good couple of seconds easily. When it came back into the garage, the team immediatly washed it and changed the tyres with an identical (legal) car next to it. They even went to the trouble of coving ther front with sqaushed bugs the the like.
The scrutineers came over and inpscted the car with the bugs and hot tyres, completely oblivious to the gleaming car that had just set pole....
Another story of rule bending in TCs.
There was a team that was so quick, the officials had big doubts over their engine's eligibility. On the Friday of a 3 day meeting, he officials decided to inspect the engine, but with nightfall approaching, they simply welded metal strips over the bonnet gaps to see if the car was tampered with overnight, before the checking it the net day.
The team, knowing tht they had a bent engine in the car, got around the strips. The mechanics worked all night, cutting the engine out from underneath the engine bay, and successfully swapped it for a legal one.
Engine swapped with the seals entact.
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