Racing's most legendary CHEATERS!

John Ficarra from @FicarraClassic shares some stories of the most infamous cheaters in auto racing history.

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[iancarrey]

So refreshing to have stories that are not “how I bought my 7th Lambo”

[jauken]

Cheating stories are one of my absolute favorites on this channel. The ingenuity these folks had is hilarious.

[chuckschultz]

The biggest cheaters never got caught and never bragged afterwards.

[speedy]

Small side note about John's story on Jocko Flocko. Tim Flock never had him in a cage in the car, he had a custom race seat installed for Jocko to ride in while he went around the track.

The incident where Jocko attacked him in the car was because Tim Flock had a panel attached to a cord that he would pull to check tire wear while driving. During the race Jocko got loose from his seat and since he saw Tim pull the cord so many times, pulled the cord and opened the panel right as a large pebble came up and smacked him right in the face.

Poor Jocko wasn't freaking out cause he was in a loud race car, he was freaking out cause he got wacked in the face by a rock going probably 70mph

[kainm]

In our formula student car, we milled a steel plate for the chainguard. The requirement was a 3mm plate, we milled ours down with a big face cutter at an angle to less than a millimeter in the center. Outer face was exactly to spec... Saved about half a kilo of weight. Which is a lot on a 150kg car.

[yotafan]

John is one of the GOATS of Vinwiki!!!

[violinmiata]

John Ficarra always gets a fast click,
If you’re not first, you’re last!

[jdmmike]

Who ever snitched out Toyota is a scumbag lol. If you aint pushing the rulebook you aint trying bro. Great video.

[beamdriver]

John is such a great storyteller. I'm not a big racing fan, but I enjoyed this immensely.

[gofastandwynn]

The Tyrell got caught not because the shot leaked, but when the car left the pits it did a burnout and basically turned the car into the worlds largest shotgun, firing the led shot against all the mechanics in the pits behind them.

[Skydrag.V]

I always click on videos with John, no matter what I’m doing

[FicarraClassic]

I do love me some creative interpretation of the rules! Enjoy!

[jasonlanglois]

I love these stories. I worked at a really high end shop. The top guy (who took forever to get friendly) finally started to open up about his past. He was a crew chief for a privateer 962. He was telling me stories about (not the 962) having camber limits that they would beat by turning 2 degrees into the tire itself on a lathe. Shoving dry ice in places, then panicking because the car sat longer then expected and started to drip. And my favourite was fuel capacity limits they overcame because the rule book never specified *how long the filler hose could be.

[potcommitted]

I remember the Celica being the heaviest car with the most HP in the old rally video games, I never knew

[JeffHendricks]

It's also possible they sandbagged (i.e. weighted) the rear bumper, making the rest of the car lighter, knowing that weight would get knocked off...

[Celician]

FINALLY!!! He tells the Celica GTFour WRC story! Long anticipated! Couldn't believe it wasn't in the first one!

[nathanzimmerman]

I need as many Ficarra cheating stories as this man can tell. Dude is a legend at storytelling and has all the history knowledge to back it up. MOAR!

[alaeriia]

My all time favorite cheat was back in the 70s. Some wiseass shows up to a race with a 23 gallon fuel tank. Scrutineers see this and tell him that fuel tank is too big and he has to replace it. Well, he hems and he haws and curses up a storm and stomps back to the garage and, knowing full well the scrutineers arent going to check the replacement tank, replaces the tank... with one that holds 28 gallons.

[greggdavies]

Always loved the ford focus boost tank in the rear bumper

[benzina]

It is important to distinguish between a cheat and a creative interpretation of the rules. The latter is cool and awesome while the former is grounds for disqualification and punishment. In the case of Toyota the rules explicitly said that any air entering the engine had to pass through the restrictor. What Toyota did was a incredibly well engineered way of deliberately breaking the rules. The FIA comes down hard on deliberate cheats which is why they were excluded from the WRC. To me the real art in racing is to do something that (when discovered) leads to a changing of the rules because it was so clever.