No1Kiwi
As posters on this forum know, I will never forgive Rodger Penske for building the "cheater" pushrod motor. A flagrant violation of the spirit of the rules. These pushrod motors were allowed higher boost, because it was always assumed that they would be based on inexpensive production motors. An unwritten rule that all honored. Except the Captain. Pure poor sportsmanship on the Captains part. He literally bought the victory.

No1Kiwi jde, I've read "Beast". It's a superb read, and well researched. If you read it carefully, you will be hard pressed to come to the conclusion that Jade Gurss disagrees with me.

Rodger the Dodger right from day one knew he was skating on thin ice. Building a pure racing engine that obviously wasn't within the spirit of the "stock block pushrod" engine rules. That's the reason lImor was instructed to keep it secret. Not because any other team would copy his approach - no other team had a hope in hell of matching the Penske/Mercedes spending. But because he knew that USAC would probably put the kybosh on it. Even with his successful efforts behind the scene to have the rules "changed" he still knew that the engine had little chance of being ruling legal in '95. Right up until the day of the race, he knew that he was pulling a Smokey Yunick.. That's why he instructed Tracy and Emmo to sandbag big time in the month of May and in Qualifying. And sadly, USAC did not have the balls to disqualify this obvious "cheater" engine, until after the '94 race.
And most ironically of all, the engine was hardly a "pushrod" engine at all in the sense of American engine architecture and definitions. The "pushrods" were inches long in a complex overhead cam pure racing engine. No automotive engineer will ever be fooled into believing that this "cheater" engine was a production based pushrod engine like the rules envisaged.
GM's seeking to design and build a new block for the Buicks was entirely within the rules. And USAC was quite happy to humor Greenfield pushing the envelope. He was a bit player with little chance of upsetting the apple cart. Penske, however, with his deep pockets, used his huge influence behind the scenes to upset the apple cart big time.
This Indycar fan, will never forgive him for that.