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20 Nov 2003, 13:53 (Ref:789515) | #51 | ||
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I remember reading about a Canadian GP where a storm blew up while teams were preparing the cars for a practice session. As such, there were pieces of bodywork in the pitlane, all of which blew away--except one team's, which didn't move an inch...
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Roll cage tubing has been used in the past as a container for extra gas or nitrous oxide.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by verglas This was a clever one..At Spa for one of the first GP's on the new circuit the timing beam was still sited by the old pits, at the bottom of the hill rather than by the new F1 pits. Keke Rosberg's Williams, in qualifying, overshot La Source hairpin and sailed up the road towards the circuit entrance, under the Stella Bridge. I was marshalling on the inside of La Source and was a bit perplexed because there did not seem to be a problem, he just overshot the corner big time. Suddenly he re-appeared going like a bat out of hell, and proceded to set the fastest time of the session, simply because he had fantastic speed through the beam at the start of the lap. No one else realised what was happening and he was the only person to try the scam.... Black Jack Brabham did the same thing at Rheims; by "outbraking" himself at Thillois and going up the escape road he could get a much better run up the finishing straight and a greater speed at the start of the next lap. Paul |
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I heard of a Mk1 escort which ran with a roll cage made out of exhaust tubing!! All very good and light untill it rolled.
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Uniroyal Saloons, purple Sierra, sponsored by Hoosier tyres, always had a perfectly clear view out of the rear window as the the heated rear screen switch was actually the boost switch for the turbo.... Formula Palmer Audi, only 10 years earlier!! ALLEDGEDLY of course........
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WHen it looked like Jimmy would take pole at INDY, A.J. Foyt said something to the effect of 'no damn Engishman is gonna take the pole' and he promptly went out a blasted Jimmys time...rumor has it he had nitros in the frame rails to do it, though it's never been confirmed.
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Although interesting, I always feel rather disappointed when I hear of teams cheating (some of the examples here go way beyond rule bending), especially if it is a team or driver that I'd been fond of. It's always more impressive to win within the rules. What's the point in doing otherwise? Anyway, I seem to recall a story about the rear wing on Jochen Rindt's Lotus at Brands in 1970. It was too high, so whilst wheeling it back before being checked, a mechanical used his knees to bend them, thus reducing the height sufficiently. |
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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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Didn't touring car teams add weight to the rather loosely attached rear bumpers, so first bit of contact with another car saw bumper and associated weight fly off?
And what about the VLM exhaust problem @ Donnington in 1991? The exhausts were outside of the noise limits (due to them being totally illegal!) and their cars were likely to be deducted points if they failed scruttineering after race. Only first 6 cars would be checked, so VLM car running 6th stopped at line to let team-mate through, team-mate checked and disqualifed, driver promoted to 6th to get points and not checked. |
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I thought the Foyt story was that he wore rather baggy trousers, so that he could have the nitrous cylinder strapped to his leg.
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22 Nov 2003, 12:38 (Ref:791408) | #63 | ||
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Sneaky Vauxhall Lotus scam from Spa, to counteract the car creeping on the downhill start, simply fit a handbrake!!
Only embarrasing if you get caught........ which is what happened to Van Amersfoort and Verstappen. |
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Coming to the last round at Brands Hatch someone needed to win the race and get the extra point for fastest lap. Apparently 1300GT pistons in a 1600 Mexico provided a helpfully high compression ratio. So far so good but the driver, a hefty, flamboyant gentleman better known for his escapades in Dealer Team Vauxhalls and manslaughter on the public highway and what not couldn’t do the job subtly of course; he had to win at a gallop and break the lap record by a country mile [Rule 1; - when you’ve got a REALLY good tweak … make it look difficult! ]. All hell broke loose! Of course they’d planned for that. The car was road-registered and one of the mechanics often took it home so while the driver was talking to Brian Jones the car went out through the paddock gate, off down Scratcher’s Lane and disappeared. The row in the paddock went on for several hours while Larry Sevitt explained that the mechanic had gone off to a family wedding somewhere and since it was still 1971 and noone had invented mobile phones yet they couldn’t contact him etc etc. Finally, as per plan, the car came back around midnight and since it was late and cold and dark and the scrutineers were tired they sealed the engine with every seal known to man and announced the RAC inspection would take place on the following Wednesday. Monday and Tuesday were quite busy at a workshop in Cricklewood. They unpicked the bodyshell seams at the A-post; took the whole front off the car from the windscreen forward, pulled the engine backwards out of the front half of the car leaving all the nice seals intact, rebuilt it and then re-welded the two halves of the Escort back together. Wednesday wasn’t so busy. The strip-down in front of the RAC scrutineers revealed no anomalies and the result [and the lap record] stood! Funnily the same mechanic had the same “creative” attitude towards scrutineers when he ran production saloons for me in the ‘80s. Although strangely I can’t believe or remember anything we did that wasn’t totally legal I’ll merely observe that you might just want to gave up and burst into tears when, hypothetically, you might have completely by-passed the wastegate on a Turbocharged car so you're running absolutely unlimited boost and another competitor in an identical model Production Saleoon breezes past you down the Revitt Straight! The same mechanic also ran Formula Three cars for Alan Jones and Brian McGuire and he uncovered the great Roger Williamson cheat. 1971 was the first year of F3 air restrictors and apparently James Hunt had made good use of a crude collar at the front of the airbox which he unscrewed as he sat in the car to expose some extra holes and let more air in. But that could be found easily. A year later when someone went up to Holbay to collect an engine for Jones he picked up the wrong one and brought Williamson’s special engine back by mistake. Knowing the guy I suspect he didn’t pick up the wrong donkey by accident. They found, Boy did it pull! It had been beautifully built so that when it was at high revs the oil pressure through a special feed opened a flap in the airbox. But whenever it was tested on a gasflow rig a very strong spring held the flap shut. This time the row went the other way and I gather that since they were Brabham customers even Mr Ecclestone got involved to hush that particular one up ...... |
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if the flap was opened by oil pressure, why wouldn't it open on a test bed (I'm not sure what you mean by a "gasflow rig") Do you mean that there had to be a good load on the engine before the flap was activated-and also, wouldn't an obvious flap be noticed-even if it was hidden inside somewhere -mind you, I guess that was the trick, to have the flap down somewhere where if not suspicions were raised, it would never get to that point of dismantling to see it.
This whole topic, as someone already stated, does touch on the whole grey area of coming up with something that is not in the rules-real sideways thinking, as opposed to good old cheating. If I were a competitor, I would be really ****ed off if I was working my ass off in braking late, and carrying as much speed as I could through the corners, and then still have some guy who's pants in the corners go bloomiing by on the straight. Sportmanship vs some interesting lateral thinking can be a sticky subject-makes for entertaining stories, but if you were a "straight" competitor, how would you feel about someone else cheating? Also makes methink though of how in bicycle racing, the whole drug scandal thing touched on how some competitors got into it because they knew that many others were doing it and they knew they had no chance at all against the competition without it....sad isn't it? |
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DJB . . . .what your describing sounds like avery historic saloon on the grid VS a hotrod yank tank . . . .smoothly through the corners . . . . .onto the straight, flat out, then when you get near the next bend, the Galaxy/Falcon/Mustang (delete as appllicable) uses you as a braking buffer, smashes your car up, punts you off, but looses enough speed to make it round the 1 degree 30 second bend to blast off down the next straight! Snettertons good for that.
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creative rule bendings
Some more NASCAR examples:
Here is a comparison of a stock '66 Ford Galaxie and Smokey Yunick's "Yellow Banana"" http://justacarguy.blogspot.com.au/2...1966-ford.html |
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Cheats...
At the Spa 24 Hours in the mid eighties a very well known team who were favorites to win were having problems with the diff in their leading car. The rules said you could repair but not replace he diff.
So the car comes in to the pits & the mechanics rip the hot diff out of the car & make a big drama about how hot it is & throw it into a large pale of water to cool it down. After a while they retreive the diff and work on it for a while before re-fitting it to the car. You might have guessed, the pale of water already contained a nice healthy spare diff. |
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Cheating or "exploiting the grey area" will always be tried to gain an advantage and in this day and age of software I would think that's the way it now happens as anyone who designs it must know how to "fool it".
Blatant clever engineering like the 2005 BAR F1 secondary fuel tank when drained made the car 5.4 kg underweight or the 1995 WRC Toyota Celica with the brilliantly engineered turbo restrictor are "probably" a thing of the past |
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They were not the only team to do so - and Verstappen was later reinstated.
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My FF2000 Wimhurst in 1979 had a choke-control cable fitted to the rear of the brake pedal which was activated by pulling the choke knob on the dash. Never once used it and soon disconnected it!
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