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MAGNETS ON THE SOLES OF THEIR SHOES

By Ryan McGee

Monday, August 18, 2008

Magnets on the gas pedal. Brilliant. That's what Joe Gibbs Racing was busted doing during a post-race chassis dynamometer test of their Nationwide Series cars on Saturday afternoon at Michigan. During the test, which is used to measure horsepower output, the magnets kept NASCAR inspectors from being able to fully open up the throttles of Tony Stewart and Joey Logano's JGR Camrys. If you can't drop the hammer all the way, you can't accurately measure the amount of top end power the engine is p ...

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