Q: Right, bending the rules as opposed to cheating. Rule bending......e.g. something inside or outside the rules which was truly ingenious and lead to other teams wailing in protest and had said something banned.....e.g. Brabhams fan car....and it WAS a *cough* cooling device! Cheating......e.g. something inside or outside the rules which caused the reputation of the sport to be tarnished...such as Schumi's bumpercars or Mclaren's F1 car by numbers escapade. So, examples of the former please and add as many as you like. I'm just curious to know what teams got up to in the past to make themselves go faster. I believe it was one Mr. Big Bernie Ecclestone, Firefox. I just love the fact that their lie about what it did was so half hearted. Still, a classic example of rule bending. With the race fix though, I'd put that in my cheating list as it cheated the fans out of what they'd paid for and did make the sport look a bit foolish for a while. This is why I want examples of the technological rule bending or thinking outside the rules that has occured in the past.
A: Well water cooled brakes is my favorite, but I have been beaten to that one, so I will go with the McLaren "fiddle" brakes of 1997. I asked McLaren if I could film the pedal layout in their car and they said no (only Jordan agreed) and soon after that a McLaren ground to a halt and a photographer, Darren Heath I think, stuck a camera in the car and low and behold the picture revealed an extra brake pedal! People then noticed that McLarens rear brake discs were glowing on the way out of corners. The extra pedal seemed to work on the rear brakes only, a sort of traction control system. As a second how about the Ferrari's at the 1982 Long Beach GP. Rear wing was the correct dimensions, just that there were two of them! Apparently the rules dictated the size of the rear wing, just not how many you could have.