“in NASCAR they play with air pressure in the tires all the time. lol”
Ha! They don’t to much anymore. In the old days? Do a search for Smokey Yunick;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Yunick
The stuff he pulled was classic,,,, and hilarious!
I think it was Junior Johnson that once said (and I’m paraphrasing) “if you cheat on 10 things and NASCAR tech inspection only finds 5......well, your 5 to the good”. Priceless.
Ryan Newmans team got busted just a few weeks ago for drilling small holes in the tires so they we would bleed off some of the pressure that builds up during a run. Otherwise, that is the first tire cheating I've heard of in a long time.
AJ Foyt used to run extra gasoline in his role bars.