Does Rick Hendrick really have the capability to forge steel? To cast metal? to make 100% of all his race parts from scratch? If that is the case that is some serious manufacturing capabilty!If he has to get his parts from somewhere else, why don‘t other teams have the same issues?
Hendrick leaves no stone un-thrown in his attempt to win all the races. Maybe the Hendrick teams are running too low on rear end dope. Maybe they are bending their rear ends too much. Maybe the rear alignment is just a little too much in favor of turning. Maybe their rear end dope is just a little too thin. Maybe a combo of the above and some things I haven't thought of. Remember, it happened last year to Dale and it always happens to the inside bearing which should be the same bearing as the outside.
If he has to get his parts from somewhere else, why don't other teams have the same issues? Well this is an easy question to answer and pretty obvious to most people, Hendricks axle supplier screwed up and other teams use different suppliers. I guess we could jump to all kind of conclusions, but seriously, what does that accomplish except entertain the minds of people with no life.
It appears to me that a lot of writers here do not know that the rear axle housing is bent so that the car will turn better. Now some crew chiefs may be willing to do more of this trick then others to get more speed through the corners. Now steel is pretty elastic, but every time it goes around it flexes and the bend in the axle determines how much flexing it has to do. This flexing causes the material to fatigue and break. It is not cheating, it is a matter of how far do you push the limits. The perfect race car should self-destruct just as it crosses the finnish line. It it runs longer then that it was over engineered, if it breaks down before that it was under engineered. They took a chance and lost. It has happened before, it will happen again.
