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5 and 48 pushing rules to the limit

By Terry Blount
ESPN.com

Friday, October 2, 2009

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Nothing like a little controversy and intrigue to spice things up. Officially, the cars of Jimmie Johnson and Mark Martin passed a postrace inspection last weekend at Dover International Speedway. Barely. After further inspection this week at NASCAR's R&D Center in Concord, N.C., both teams pushed the envelope right to the edge without suffering a paper cut. NASCAR inspectors found that both cars were in the gray area of tolerance limits on height and width measureme ...

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