[AT] The Rules

rdhaskell at juno.com rdhaskell at juno.com
Sun Jul 12 10:30:22 PDT 2009


 Henry "Smokey" Yunick
Yunick was especially fond of bending the NASCAR rule book. In 1968
during Speed Weeks, NASCAR officials pulled the gas tank out of his
Pontiac after they thought his car was getting excessive fuel mileage.
After passing a rigid inspection, Yunick got in the car-- with the gas
tank lying on the ground -- fired it up and drove back to his space in
the garage area, leaving NASCAR inspectors dumbfounded.
"Smokey looked and saw where the NASCAR rule book wouldn't define
something and he'd make his own improvisations," said Bobby Allison, who
made a couple of starts in Yunick-prepared cars. "There's that gas tank
story. The gas tank was the right size but he made the fuel line so it
held a couple of gallons of gas. So he was able to drive away without the
gas tank. I don't want to say he didn't step outside the lines, but he
was really smart about those things."

Ron Haskell
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Riverside, California USA
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On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:54:48 -0400 Dave Merchant <kosh at ncweb.com> writes:
> There is a NASCAR saying:
> 
> "The rule book is your friend"
> 
> ie, whatever isn't in it is OK, and it's your basis for protests of 
> other cars.
> 
> I've been trying to track down which car owner said it first
> 
> Dave Merchant
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