NASCAR's campaign against the Toyotas

NASCAR confiscated Michael Waltrip's Camry and his intake manifolds after finding a "substance" in the manifold that shouldn't have been there at pre-qualifying inspection. Waltrip's team is claiming that it was motor oil.

NASCAR has shipped the whole kit-n-padoodah (Hi Dy.)to North Carolina for testing and will not say if it will get the car back to Waltrip in time for the qualifying races on Thursday.

NASCAR Online, quoting an "un-named source", says, "Speaking confidentially, another noted Cup engine builder said it "wasn't possible" under normal operation for lubricating oil to leak into an engine's manifold."

Mmmmmmm-Kay.

So one of the "noted" idiots building engines for a NASCAR team is certain that it is impossible to have an intake manifold gasket leak that would allow motor oil to enter the manifold like my Dodge truck had last year?

I wouldn't want to be running anything that guy builds...

UPDATE:

OK, so it looks like Michael was cheating. (And not very well, I might add.) Trying to hide a gooey octane booster of some sort in the intake. Not good at all. Oh well. He got lucky. NASCAR is still going to let him race in the qualifier on Thursday.

This looks a little like the Dodge-Boys/Nitrous debacle in the NHRA back in the '90s.

Hopefully Toyota keeps their engine shop locked up so nobody breaks in and ruins all their underpowered engines...