This is not a taboo in the garage Cup Sprint likes to talk on record - for fraud. Some call it pushing the envelope, or bending the rules. Some say it is part of the game. But what they will not tell you is that all teams to invest outside the envelope and stretch the rules to try to win.
This is something that is part of NASCAR since the first cars ran on the sand south of Daytona Beach was held more than half a century.
On the hunt began late last week in New Hampshire and press pack is in full swing mentions Kurt Bush crew director Steve Addington, an additional set of tires. NASCAR officials penalized the team with the loss of a framework of practices that followed, and the loss of practice time.
Clint Bowyer, however, shows clearly what happens when over the line. And the first to reveal this week that Chevrolet Clint Bowyer in Chase agreed - on the sidewalk in the previous race at Richmond International channel turned to non-race inspection post. However, since prejudice Boer Richard Childress NASCAR race back to the research and development center in North Carolina and complete once during a series of staff and is considered one of the rules and regulations, but the closure is inconvenient for some differences.
Then came his New Hampshire in more control, and NASCAR officials discovered endurance. Wednesday Boyer was assessed a penalty of 150 points and crew Wilson, President Chen has been suspended for six races and placed on probation until the end of the year and fined him $ 150,000. This step reduces Bauer finished second in the standings and 35 points in the race, 12 behind leader Chase, 185 points.
NASCAR remind you of competitors in the garage of football - we are looking at you.
This is a sporting advantage. Competition in the Sprint Cup series is closer than ever. Force race team to work long hours and spending huge amounts on research and development, in an attempt to find an advantage, although they will be placed ahead of the competition.
NASCAR officials, meanwhile, is doing everything possible to ensure that no one has an unfair advantage. So the result is a game that is something strange and he plays every weekend on the track where the crew chiefs are at the top will maintain through prerace, and after the process of verification of the race car that may or may not have parts or legal changes rules of NASCAR.
Problem, the crew chiefs will tell you that there is no real consistency in the rules. You never know where the border while have not passed.
Work teams of a very difficult situation. NASCAR is a sport and the business each week as he tries to even obsolete, or engines or by car. Trying to replace what you currently have with something better. Nothing means the status quo, even if they are successful. There is always something better just around the corner.
In pursuit of profit, taking into account three things: to make the car faster and easier to drive? What is the cost of integration in the current configuration? Legal?
Answer the last question is the hardest to meet NASCAR rules are a moving target. Often, when the head of personnel at least expect it, suddenly something that is part of your car for several races that is outside the rules.
This is done so by NASCAR designed to make you think about bending the rules.
When submitted to the contest, praised this race car Cup (formerly known as the car in the morning), it is safer and stronger. But it was much more difficult to manage. Meanwhile, put the car in the box, tighter construction, with more stringent rules about how to change or modify your car engine to make it faster and better job.
NASCAR said the new car is a clean sheet of paper.
But crew chiefs and team engineers were like what about a note on a clean sheet of paper. The box is more like Shoebox.