How hard would it be for NASCAR to detect frame or chassis alterations?
May 30, 2010 by
Filed under nascar
NASCAR is kind of lame with their templates and specifications to how they think a race car is supposed to be. If a team wants to “try harder” to win why not just do it right. It just seems that racing has become a different kind of game
nascar is a no skill sports…DONUT tracks
well they detect it with their templates and measurements
If there weren’t specs involved they would all be driving rocket cars around the track at 300 mph , every car would look different and you would have an incredibly high mortality rate. Thers a reason they call them stock cars, if you don’t like it go watch something else.
I think they determine it by what kinda mood they are in and who they scrutinizing.
Surely they have ways of detecting if the cages are more flexible than others with machines that test stress wouldn’t they. I read something to that extent somewhere. Can’t find it right now.
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What I read was they do check for certain tolerances.
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“One official measures the distance between the rear wheel and the bumper. Another places a template in the wheel well to check it. No less than three officials scan the car bumper to bumper with tape measures and devices to check for gaps between the template and the sheet metal”.
also they still may be gathering data about the tolerances and how the cars reacts under normal racing conditions.
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“Obviously race cars twist and bend and move in a normal function of 500 laps or 500 miles,” Darby said. “Part of what we’re looking for and to understand is the amount of that movement and how much they return back to neutral, if you will, just through normal wear and tear, which helps us apply the tolerances to the certification program.”
from March 3, 2007
So there may be a limited amount of data available for them to even measure/monitor the chassis very closely.
They have certain chassis measurements that must be within specs. They also check the tube thickness. There are some areas in the chassis that are open to change. Just looking inside the cars you can see minor differences.
Yes I think they are making chassis changes since aero body changes are no longer legal. This just makes the car more expensive than the last one.
Nascar approves all chassis’ and bodies at the Nascar R&D center in Concord. They put over 30 RFD tags in all the critical locations so they can scan all the points at the track to guarentee that all the points have been been approved prior to coming to the race track.