Timtek wrote:
That's certainly a good theory. I feel like I'm thinking like a criminal here, but what's to stop a team from adding the (equivalent) motor weight in lead shot for the pre-season weigh in. I think I need to take off my tinfoil hat now.
Nope, keep wearing it.
You're at least 40 years too slow on that one.......
"NASCAR used to weigh the cars to make sure they were at the minimum before the race, but not after, and teams would do all sorts of things to get the cars through inspection, including placing solid lead radios and helmets in the car as they rolled across the scale. Darrell Waltrip's team would fill frame rails with BBs or buckshot, then when on the track, he'd pull a little wire that would open a trap door in the frame rail, and the BBs would spill out on the back straight. But once, a crewman washed the car and got the BBs wet. They all stuck together, and didn't escape until Waltrip was speeding down pit lane. As the BBs pelted crew members from other teams, as well as NASCAR officials, it did not take long for inspectors to close that loophole."