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Gary Balough's Jail Time and Post-Race Tech Tricks

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Legendary Racer Gary Balough’s Cheating Stories: The Miami Gang was WILD in the 1980s

What happens here

The conversation moves to Gary Balough's past legal troubles, revealing that he served 45 months in jail in the mid-80s due to smuggling charges. This revelation prompts more humorous stories related to his time in jail, including how his crew handled a 'heavy bottle' (referring to mercury, which is heavier than lead) to pass post-race inspection while Balough feigned unconsciousness to distract officials.

Goal: Discuss Gary Balough's legal issues and his crew's inventive ways to circumvent race rules

Tools and materials

  • Duct Tape — Securing items to the go-kart
  • Sump Pump Housing N/A — Used as a container for mercury, attached to the car to influence weight distribution
  • Zip Ties — Securing items to the go-kart
  • Mercury — Used for weight distribution in racing cars

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the wall. And they're all cheating and you're not. Then you're just stupid. If you never heard of Gary Belaloo before, consider this your introduction to a super interesting guy. He was a wicked talented racer, car builder, very good mind to think of outside the box in terms of innovation and, you know, just straight up cheating. He admits that, too. Well, we came here to do video with Gary Belaloo on his car and it expanded very quickly. This is Tim. Tim helps us find videos. Yeah. I wanted to do a Miami project and so I started making phone calls and we got some heavy hitters here today. Thank you all so much. This means an incredible amount for everybody's future. Question becomes, how do you know it's all going to be truth? Do you know how many lies we've had to tell to get where we are? Well, no, we can tell that. It's not cheating. It's being competitive. Okay. But I was talking about a certain wreck with some silver liquid. Silver liquid? Yeah. I don't know about I don't know much about silver liquid. I wasn't involved in it, but one of my best friends said it got in his eye. He takes off and it rolls everywhere. And he thought he had a BB in his eye. We had my watch fell apart. Coming out the vent was the vent was the fire bottle. Yeah. Above my head there out my watch. My I guess the watch. It fell all apart. Gary called from the big house. That was the best part. First time he called in the house of Sunday dinner. They were all sitting there. The phone rings and my dad goes, "Who's calling on a Sunday?" So my mother answers the phone. She goes, "Excuse me, collect call for whatever wherever we were." And she goes, "Oh, it's your friend."

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