Discuss Regulatory Changes and Team Adaptations

intermediate tracks. Um, at one point they made these mandatory at 24 in for the super speedway races like Daytona and you know, so that was actually a big thing at Daytona in about 2001 or two. Uh, Rick Crawford and and Ted Musgrave got up in the wall and qualifying on purpose to flatten these out. And then they had done a bunch of stuff with shifter boots and oil tank covers. And then they started making everything mandatory because everybody was finding all this stuff they were, you know, basically, for lack of a better word, they were cheating on, but they were just moving things around. And >> they ended up making all these rules where you had to like the oil tank lid on this doesn't have a real lid. Well, now everything had to be sealed off and welded down because everybody was doing things to prop them up and get air out of it and it would make it faster. Same thing with the wicker bills. We're just making you slower so you get up against >> the wall. >> Yeah. Then on a warm-up lap, come up and up against the wall and flatten that thing off a little bit. There you go. >> How did they catch on to that? Like, >> well, when the two trucks that did it qualified on the front and they come in and they were all, you know, they were worked off the right front and like, why are you guys hitting the wall with these things? They're they come up with a pretty good idea why they did that. Oil tank were falling apart. Like the whole lids were coming off, the shifters were all coming off. like all the boots and everything, everybody had holes in it cuz they were just letting air out >> and it made it faster. >> The hood is a actual stock hood, >> but is something that they actually sold sent to us from a Dodge manufacturer that just didn't have the internal parts of the hood welded into it yet. And the original hoods that we had, we had to strip all that stuff out of them. Like we would get street stock hoods and have to strip everything out of it. Really roofs the same way. Well, we finally by about 98 99 we're starting to get just skins. You see with the air cleaner previous to cow induction for the trucks. >> We didn't go to cow induction until about 2002 maybe three somewhere in there. And they had this air horn style all the way up until that point. And that's that's how we ran from I think about somewhere between 97 98 all the way through the about 2001 or two is when we ran this air horn style. >>…