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Cheating.(Review)(Book Review)
Byline: Bill McGuire
Cheating: An Inside Look at the Bad Things Good NASCAR Winston Cup Racers Do in the Pursuit of Speed, by Tom Jensen, hardcover, 250 pages, $24.95, David Bull Publishing, (602) 852-9500, www.bullpublishing.com.
Auto racing, at least on the equipment side, does not share the same moral code of other sports. Where in baseball the discovery of, say, a corked bat is a major scandal, in racing that sort of thing is just another day at the shop.
If you don't think racing operates this way, listen to McLaren principal Ron Dennis discuss rulebooks sometime. For him the rulebook has no intent at all; there is only the letter, and the simplest declarative sentence has all the subtle shadings of a United Nations document. For racers, the rules exist to be stretched, pulled, deconstructed, tied in knots. And fans and observers do not condemn of this type of behavior from Dennis or any of the other clever racers who have made their bread pushing the envelope: Penske, Chapman, Smokey Yunick. They actually applaud their ingenuity, and feed on the intrigue they create, both human and technical, as they set about trying to thwart the rules, and then trying to get away with it. ...
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