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'Innovations' are getting more difficult to hide

By Bill Borden
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, August 27, 2007

There is a legendary story about one of the late Smokey Yunick's more infamous confrontations with NASCAR inspectors many years ago when they knew he was cheating on his fuel mileage. They were determined to catch him that day and spent a considerable amount of time dismantling his car's fuel system in their attempt to figure out where he was hiding extra fuel. They removed the fuel tank and fuel lines and did everything they could think of to figure out just how he was doing it. They could n ...

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