From the book: Intriguing Look At Illegalities Within NASCAR

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From the book: Intriguing Look At Illegalities Within NASCAR

From the book:

Intriguing Look At Illegalities Within NASCAR

Intriguing Look At Illegalities Within NASCAR

By
Michael Daly

Michael Daly
on December 14, 2002
Format: Hardcover Tom Jensen authors this overdue look at the "black art" of cheating in NASCAR, and along the way manages a decent job of seperating fact from fiction. He delves into the acts of cheating in the sport from its beginnings (when apparant Grand National winner Glenn Dunaway was disqualified and the race win went to Jim Roper) through the 1990s into the 21st century.

Three cheating scandals stand out here, and all three involve teams owned by Junior Johnson. If there is a theme to this book, it is that Junior Johnson was the sport's least honest team owner and the one who always seemed to get benefit of the doubt. The first was the 1973 National 500 at Charlotte. Cale Yarborough won the race, but his car and second-place Richard Petty were protested by Bobby Allison. An extremely long tear-down took place, and NASCAR ultimately said the race results would stand - which led Allison to file a lawsuit against NASCAR, because there was evidence that Cale's Chevrolet, wrenched by Johnson, ran some 70 cubic inches more than.................

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