The late Smokey Yunick, the greatest rule-bender in motorsports history, described slipping past NASCAR inspectors as "walking under a snake's belly." And that was long before the rule book became the airtight list of guidelines it is today. Cheating is a time-honored racing tradition, but it rarely makes as many headlines as it did at this year's Daytona 500. Six Nextel Cup teams got collared—including the cars of Michael Waltrip, Matt Kenseth and Kasey Kahne—resulting in five crew ...

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