Back in the day

It looks like the reason Haas/CNC Racing was caught with an unapporved wing before the Coca-Cola 600 last weekend at Lowe's Motor Speedway, and consequently penalized by NASCAR, was because another team snitched on them.
Mark Martin said that would have never happened when he started his Cup career. If anything, teams would try to figure out how others were cheating and try to duplicate it.
"Back in the old days, we didn't turn each other in. We got like them, you know," said Martin, driver of the No. 8 Chevrolet for Dale Earnhardt Inc. "That is what we did; our ethics were not to be a tattletale. If someone was doing something and getting away with it, we just did it too."
No harm, no foul. Just as long as no one else cried foul.
"But his is a different day and age," Martin said before the Cup race at Dover International Speedway. "You kind of felt like a man back then. You didn't tell on anybody. If they were getting away with something, you just did it too."
But NASCAR is different nowadays. WIth its new stock car, NASCAR does not want any team getting too creative and taking too many liberties with it. NASCAR says it's all in the name of safety, but it does take a degree of secrecy out of the sport.
"Certainly want to follow that same course of action in this day and age with the COT, with the penalty history and everything that is going on here. Things do change," Martin said. "Back then if you were doing something and it wasn't being policed or it wasn't whatever, then you figured it was fair game. If they wanted to stop it, they would address it, but now, it is different. It is a different time and day and age."