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Your Cheatin' Heart 

For NASCAR, The Song Remains The Same

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What Nelson hasn't changed -- nor will Helton or anyone else -- is the basic nature of racers to push the rules to the edge and beyond. "What we have is what we have," Nelson shrugged prior to the 2001 Daytona 500, when more than a dozen cars were caught in rules violations.

"We're not trying to gloss over anything. . . Racing is hard and there's always temptations, just like there's temptations in real life to break laws. But you try to understand that the majority of our garage follows the rules. There's only a few guys that try and take the shortcut and flat-out cheat. Life's the same way. If a convenience store has hundreds and thousands of customers, every once in a while, somebody tries to rob it. That's just a fact of life, and we deal with it in a way that we think discourages that kind of activity."

Just as they have from the beginning and likely always will.

Tom Jensen is the author of Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Winston Cup Racers Do In Pursuit Of Speed (David Bull Publishing).

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