[The Boss]

Originally Posted by Sirrotica

Smokey Yunick said he never broke any of NASCARS rules, he would work in an area that wasn't covered by rules until they found out his innovations and re-wrote the rules to cover that innovation. He then would never breach that rule, he just moved on to another area that wasn't considered in the present rules.

Knaus knew in the conversation with JJ before the race he was outside of the template rule, and he instructed him to mess up the sheet metal after the race so he wouldn't be caught. These 2 examples are not the same and the intent is different.

In my book cheating with a car that won't match templates is also poor sportsmanship............................

That's bull and you know it. The car passed inspection at nascar's R&D center, the template prior to qualifying & during the prerace tech. Do they use a different template after the race??? The same car was used in the Spring Talledega race and went back-and-forth to the R&D center then too! There's a huge difference between cheating out right on rules that are in the book and having a car bumped drafted out of tolerances.

Anyone that lies about the facts to prove their point doesn't have the right attitude in their life.

[Sirrotica]

Originally Posted by The Boss

That's bull and you know it. The car passed inspection at nascar's R&D center, the template prior to qualifying & during the prerace tech. Do they use a different template after the race??? The same car was used in the Spring Talledega race and went back-and-forth to the R&D center then too! There's a huge difference between cheating out right on rules that are in the book and having a car bumped drafted out of tolerances.

Anyone that lies about the facts to prove their point doesn't have the right attitude in their life.

I'm not lying, the same car was raced and won the previous Talladega race and fit the templates after the race so if it was undamaged why on God's earth wouldn't it fit again? Maybe it was something else that he had cheated on in the rear of the car and not the exterior sheetmetal. Whatever it was he wanted the rear of the car damaged so that whatever he did, wasn't apparent.

The cars that have to be teched 3-4 times by NASCAR before an event are the ones that I know are trying to slip cars by tech and even if they are cheating in one area they can use an alternate obvious area to draw attention away from another area they will try it. Most times Hendrick cars are the ones that fail tech inspection multiple times in one race, I find it funny that many teams go thru tech once, time after time.

Knaus has never taken responsibility when found cheating and it's been a multitude of times he's been caught. If you buy into his lie about bump drafting and changing the shape of the car is the reason, that's fine. The same exact car had won Talladega previously and succumbed to no damage and fit the template post race so why wouldn't it fit this time? He was trying to cover something up, it may not have been the exterior metal, there is no reasonable explanation for a crew chief to tell the driver to intentionally inflict damage on a car post race if he's not trying to hide something.

The nickname that the other teams have for Knaus, "Cheatin Chad" wasn't given to him, he earned it fair and square.