True
anecdote from the early part of the
2000 NASCAR season:
Driver Jeremy Mayfield and his team received disciplinary action from NASCAR for using a disallowed experimental fuel additive to increase engine performance in a race. The most memorable reaction to this was by a sportswriter in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, who wrote:
These days to cheat in NASCAR, typical mechanic's tools won't cut it anymore. You now need a masters in chemical engineering.