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Pushing the envelope is what good crew chiefs do

By David Newton

Friday, October 2, 2009

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Sprint Cup cars of Jimmie Johnson and Mark Martin, which finished first and second on Sunday at Dover, were deemed "extremely close on some of the tolerances" during a postrace inspection at NASCAR's Research and Development Center. Big deal. Crew chiefs and now engineers have been pushing the gray areas for as long as the sport has existed. That is their job. As long as they stay within the rules, no matter how close to the tolerances, they have done nothing wrong. N ...

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