Easily win the Mafia 1 race - 100% Works

Win the Mafia 1 race by cheesing the AI. Takes a few tries to get all cars to pile up, but MUCH easier than winning with honour. Thanks to "CraigA" for original idea.

[SonOfExcess]

For anybody still attempting to win the race on classic difficulty, I can only recommend that THIS IS the best way to do it.

I (no exaggeration) tried and failed to win the race on classic difficulty legit probably 200 times, I rage quit and uninstalled the game, but tried again with this method last night and it DOES work. Took me about 25 attempts but it worked!

I have a few tips that this video doesn’t show however, these are invaluable -

1 - I wouldn’t do as the guy in this video does and position your car to the side, as the cars will just drive around you. It’s far better to ram the first car you see head on in the same spot as this video shows.

2 - Don’t worry if some cars go past you and don’t make it into the first pile up, as this video shows they will smash into the back of it later.

3 - You must make sure that you have at least 4 or 5 cars in your initial pile up. If you only get one or two and the rest drive past you just need to restart.

4 - Cars on their sides and flipped over are GOD tier for this method and are your best friends. The other cars will NEVER drive through them, so think of flipped over vehicles as brick walls.

5 - Block off the rest of the road that isn’t covered by the flipped over cars. So say if you have one or two cars flipped over / on their sides on the left hand side of the road, you need to block the right hand side with your car. You need to basically create a wall of cars that none of them can go through. You don’t need to push your car into flipped over cars as they aren’t going anywhere, just block off what is left of the road.

6 - DO NOT be afraid to let some cars go through to help make the pile up more nasty. You should keep an eye on which cars have done several laps so you don’t accidentally let any of them win, but once you have your pile up and are blocking one side of the road, don’t be afraid to let some cars through who are constantly moving to get around the crash. Let them pass and add themselves to the pile up at the back once they’ve done a lap.

7 - Once everything stops moving and the pile up seems to be achieved for the love of God TEST it. Do not just drive off and assume it’ll work out. Drive onto the nearby grass and create a space for any car that could move to go through, then wait for a few minutes. If nothing moves, you’re good to go. If a few cars move past you and out of the pile up just get back into position, wait for them to do their lap and wait for them to crash into the back of the pile up.

8 - Once you’re sure it’s all safe and nobody is going anywhere, GET GOING. Do not be slow, don’t risk that, still drive like it’s a race.

9 - Don’t be alarmed if when you do your lap and reach the pile up a few cars have gone. They will either smash into the back of the pile up once they come back around or will crash in one of the three scripted car crashes in the race.

10 - If when you do your first lap, you get to the pile up and most of the cars have gone, it meant you’ve failed and you need to restart.

11 - Keep track of laps is your friend here, it’s fine to let a few cars go around the track once or twice but as soon as you’re suspicious that a car might win if it makes it through you need to consider restarting.

12 - Good luck and remember that some awful individual at Hangar 13 approved this garbage. Curse them and their utter incompetence and ability to make a decent game forever.

[robertbooth]

i was stuck on this trash for so long that i forgot i was playing a mafia game

[N_]

If it was an actual mafia game they would have taken out all the racers and let me won

[Rayblade]

I bet you feel good winning like this don't you? Well you should this race is pure frustration so take the win sir or madam you have earned it.

[eziom]

Thank you for this cheese method. Had been softlock at this for hours.
I had to try it several times to work. The best is when they clumped together, try to ramp and wreck any car that are stuck but are trying to get out or wreck as much as you can. But you have to make sure that the clump is big enough, if they escape, they'll gonna end up at the back of the pile anyway.

[minneeagle]

“We can’t fuck with the racer himself, they’ll cry foul. Let’s fuck with his car.”

“What about blocking all of the racers during the race until they total out and I can just complete the race by myself?”

(…) “You are a GODDAMN GENIUS, TOMMY!”

[RizzySkibidiAmongus]

If I can’t beat the race using this method I will cry

[jofig]

Oh my gosh thank you!!! Finally able to pass it after a year!

[vikinglegacy]

Thank you so much for this video, i thought it was going to take me atleast 15 tries to get it done but i got it on my second attempt. If it wasn't for this trick i would have given up ngl

[Saith]

God. How did this make it past QA? This would have been a perfect joke homage to the original game in the form of a cute easter egg minigame that you can unlock during your adventures. The mandatory race should be moderately difficult at best. Why? BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE FILTERED OUT OF MY MAFIA-THEMED ACTION ADVENTURE BECAUS OF A RACING SEGMENT.

I shudder to think how much money they lost on refunds because they pissed so many people off with this race.
💀💀💀

[NoCommentaryGamer]

I hate i even had to come to youtube for help but the driving mechanics in this game are horrible

[hgh]

Just tried this today, and it still works. Probably finally got it on my 5th try. Getting a flipped car is a tremendous advantage.

[Polakyeah]

Thank you so much man I was looking how to complete this race by actually driving in it but I saw this method and I did it first try and won

[hyperplaygaming]

Can confirm that this works as of 2023 and this strategy does take some luck but not as much as the race what I found worked well is just to get a nice flipped or a car on its side in the middle of the turn and you should be good

[mixster_rules]

4 years. That's how long it's been since I played this game because of this stupid fucking mission. I decided to download it yesterday because I couldn't remember finishing it and I love the series, lo and behold I get to this mission. The horrible memories came back to me and I immediately hit the web and this was the first video I found. Cannot thank you enough, thank you so much friend.

[aaronofra]

It took a number of attemps to get the cars to crash in the correct way, but FINALLY I got passed this BS mission.

[Felix-ovxy]

This is what it happens when you combine trolling with genius XD
Masterpiece

[thisoneguy]

This worked for me, I know there’s a lot of people attempting this race and spending weeks on it like myself but do the pile up method it works just keep trying and don’t give up. I’ve been doing the race for maybe a week or 2 now when I have time I get on, but I was getting 4th, 3rd, and sometimes 2nd on the race and it was draining. There’s another pile up method video but this one shows a better placement of your car to start the pile up, thank you so much for uploading this.

[Hristiyan]

I swear this was one of the hardest levels from all the games I played. The other one is to put down the heli on the boat for a time from Far Cry.

[Eyes-Scream]

Thank you so much! I actually tried the legit race for 3 hours and decided to check for an easy win. Tried this for at least 15 times and it works.
Just a tip guys even if you failed multiple times just don't give up. I actually got 3 cars only on my 13th try and just drop my controller. Suddenly I noticed most of them piled up and starts crushing.
It's not important if you got only 3 cars at first as long as you are in the middle of the road everyone will start crushing.