How Richard Pettys STUPID Wax Cylinder Trick Made His Engine 15 Cubic Inches Bigger...
and the announcer justifies cheating......
and the hack reporters will read about it on Tampa Racing, and plagiarize it for their own article......
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What happens when you put wax in engine cylinders and then run the motor at 200 miles per hour? In this video, we explore one of NASCAR's most ingenious cheating scandals - how Maurice Petty used melting paraffin wax to illegally increase engine displacement during races. This simple yet brilliant trick gave Richard Petty's #43 car an extra 25-30 horsepower advantage that helped dominate the competition throughout the early 1980s. When NASCAR finally discovered this cunning scheme at Richmond in 1983, it forever changed how racing engines are inspected and revolutionized the sport's technical regulations.