Racing's most legendary CHEATERS!

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John Ficarra from ‪@FicarraClassic‬ shares some stories of the most infamous cheaters in auto racing history.
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[@iancarrey4123]

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

[@ChrisLoew]

bingo

[@jamesrowland2002]

or some cuck bootlicking the police while simultaniously boasting about driving dangerously and ripping people off

[@straphyr]

And how "They met right at the middle" at an absolute ripoff for the seller. Sometimes these people seem so out of touch, but the stories can be fun occasionally, especially with the right person

[@spoolyboi9434]

@@straphyrright thought I was the only one that noticed, definitely love the more down to earth guys that aren’t just some rich douche

[@NarwahlGaming]

_"Here's my 7th Lambo. I keep them parked next to my 5 Ferraris in my 500,000 square feet garage under my $300 million mansion."_ _"And, what do you do for a living?"_ _"I collect and re-sell bottle caps."_

[@chuckschultz7028]

The biggest cheaters never got caught and never bragged afterwards.

[@robertmaybeth3434]

Truth be told, I'm STILL reeling that the two guys, geniuses, really, who were brilliant enough to invent card-counting at the black jack tables, were ever dumb enough to kill their own golden goose, by explaining it to everybody else.

[@aaronarmstrong9776]

Chad Knaus comes to mind

[@ElAirHawk]

Because the biggest “Cheaters” didn’t actually cheat - they merely interpreted the Rules in a way that nobody (including the rule makers) ever anticipated. Then kept their mouth shut.

[@friedsensei]

​@@robertmaybeth3434card counting is not a genius level activity. I had a drunk uncle who did it. Like you said you can't believe they were dumb enough to tell everybody about it, I imagine there were people doing it before them who were smart enough not to tell anyone.

[@user-oe1mb9hu9i]

Go tell that to these "know it all" protein filled, gym queen, A-holes that speak on this show. THEY know EVERYTHING ..... LOL. Gee, if we knew ALL cheating that went on......

[@jauken83]

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

[@chucktaylor2772]

Cheat.... Rules interpretation stories on any channel are my favorite 👍

[@bmacx]

@@chucktaylor2772 Yep! part of my favorite thing of these stories are the guys/teams who went to great lengths to interpret the rules slightly differently for their advantage or whatever. The bending the rules stuff is my favorite lmao

[@tyleravery5598]

Dale Earnhardt jr has a few cheating segments from his podcast here on KZbin if you haven’t seen them

[@adeelahmed1319]

Hilarious? You mean ingenious.

[@speedy7892]

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

[@robertmaybeth3434]

I don't even wanna know what possessed this guy to imprison a live monkey in a NASCAR stock car with him for a 500 mile race. What I really wanna know is how he dealt with piles of monkey crap. Perhaps it was just another cheat, and the monkey threw dung at the windshields of his opponents.

[@speedy7892]

@@robertmaybeth3434 probably had him diapered honestly. I've known people where I live that had pet monkeys that they had diaper trained

[@acoffeewithsatan]

@@robertmaybeth3434 I’ve laughed way too much at the image you’ve pictured, honestly this was some South redneck kinda stuff, I don’t think he got bothered too much about monkey crap

[@overbuiltlimited]

Lol. That's hilarious!

[@randindragonheart4558]

@@overbuiltlimited I'm pretty sure hilarious is not the right word here

[@yotafan174]

John is one of the GOATS of Vinwiki!!!

[@gregortheis9483]

The GOAT

[@violinmiata]

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

[@dereckcensner4647]

John is by far the best story teller on here

[@MoreBollocks-ui2zs]

@@dereckcensner4647 Comments like that make me doubt that you actually watch this channel. I rarely click on his videos because frankly there are way more entertaining people to watch when you want to see a story poorly conveyed by an obnoxious dumbass.

[@lucatitoq4781]

@@dereckcensner4647 Yup, he rarely talks about his experiences, but mostly of his vast historical knowledge. Thats ehy he's so great.

[@nataliemadrid5275]

How did you know John was going to be on this episode for you to “click fast?” The thumbnail is a celica not John’s face

[@lucatitoq4781]

@@nataliemadrid5275 Because he was in a previeous video about cheating. Also most of VinWiki's history related videos are with him

[@Skydrag.V60]

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

[@BillyBob-im7og]

How did you know tho? I like how they used to show who it was in the thumbnail

[@duress8801]

​@@BillyBob-im7ogthumbnail autoplay i think

[@jauken83]

Absolutely, same with Chris

[@Tclans]

Here too. Instantly! #carcheatseries

[@speaker9694]

Nice v60!

[@jdmmike7225]

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

[@maybenot6075]

No one snitched, the fia and scruitineers demanded a full tear down instead of just inspection that's how the cheat was found. It was toyotas own fault for turning the boost up at the beginning of the rally, it was a super special with the cars side by side & toyotas shot off & pulled atleast 6-10 car lengths by the first turn on everything.

[@Celician83]

@@maybenot6075 yeah, but admit it, Juha Kankkunen was screamin in those cars! Took guts to go out there and whip it like he did!

[@rvarsigfusson6163]

Toyota did the most beautiful jumps of all time and always came down on the rear tires first. I got the story about the turbo that it was a crashed car that was inspected and it was stuck. Some one did claim that Toyota did have some NITRO in the spare tire at the back and therefor they did have a big and strong guy to change it and that it was his only job........

[@maybenot6075]

@@Celician83 completely agree hes an absolute legend of the sport & drove the things to a level way over what they are capable of. He did an interview many years ago (I cant find it, it was on itv here in the uk) and explained how bad the car handled "like a big boat" but the power delivery (he was apparently unaware of the cheating) made up for it. It's also the reason he drove for subaru, after the scandal came out he couldn't believe mcrae & sainz could keep up & even beat it being way down on power. He's got into commentary now and does abit for rally tv aswel which has made him a fan favourite to the younger generation.

[@Celician83]

@@maybenot6075 I follow a KZbin channel that takes old recorded VHS's of the 80's and 90's WRC races and upscaled them and posts them, especially the Royal Rally Championship and the Isle of Mann races

[@kain0m]

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.

[@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.

[@-ragingpotato-937]

so it leaked, but the others only found the leak because the burnout threw it their way?

[@JamesHolbrook-eh5sp]

The lead shot trick was a favourite of NASCAR too, they'd fill roll cages with it and then release onto the track once the race started.

[@parentsbasement7734]

NASCAR guys were known for loading shot and letting it loose during qualifying. NASCAR has the best and ingenious pushing of the grey areas and flat cheating

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Much like the original ground effect cars with fans, they would fling gravel at cars behind them is one of the reasons they originally banned fans and ground effect in f1 for so long.

[@FicarraClassic]

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

[@rmp5s]

As we said in the Corps, "if you ain't cheatin, you ain't tryin." 😁

[@AnomalousOne1401]

Thanks John! Always remember and Never forget, "This can be Red"

[@Iherb7365ket]

I love the celica gt4, group turned that car into a legend.

[@qwertykeyboardwarrior]

I misinterpreted the rules....

[@B0BBYGAMER]

So when are those car trek cheaters coming back? lol

[@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...

[@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus]

Or just made it from thicker than required material.

[@up.grayedd]

i mean it took out three other cars

[@beamdriver5]

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

[@potcommitted5355]

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

[@robertmaybeth3434]

If you can't trust the physics in a video game, by golly what in this world CAN you trust???

[@benzina5917]

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.

[@Megaphone77]

In 2011 McLaren's F-Duct led directly to the DRS system we have in F1 today. But at the time it wasn't against the rules. It just absolutely wasn't what the FIA had in mind. Plus every team scrambled to make their own version. Same with hot and cold blowing of the diffuser in F1.

[@nathanzimmerman1402]

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!

[@MikesAMiner]

In racing If ya ain’t cheatin ya ain’t eatin

[@jdmmike7225]

To me it's the fun part, to see what different interpretations of the rules come around.

[@jeremyhanna3852]

If your not making the Sanctioning body Examine the rules every time you win. Then you're not thinking creatively enough.

[@ssnerd583]

...and why i got out of autox....t

[@russellhltn1396]

If you ain't cheatin, ya ain't trying.

[@dwc4343]

Bullcrap, we never cheated and won many races. Cheaters are just loosers.

[@Celician83]

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

[@jasonlanglois7906]

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.

[@blauw67]

That last story was certainly short, but also the best lol

[@alaeriia01]

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.

[@greggdavies5916]

Always loved the ford focus boost tank in the rear bumper

[@ejkrakowiak6905]

John of course I'm gonna watch

[@AI.Overlord.X]

I don't watch racing. But I love listening to these cheat stories.

[@MrTheHillfolk]

Lets see what the rule book DOESNT say,and do that. ❤

[@rmp5s]

10:16 - Squoze?...is that a word? 🤣 EDIT: Apparently it is...kinda...it's a "facetious past participle of the verb 'to squeeze'"...well done, Ficarra. Well done.

[@FicarraClassic]

I do love me a facetious past participle!

[@rmp5s]

@@FicarraClassic Of COURSE you do.

[@patheddles4004]

I'd never heard the word before, but I immediately recognised it as an irregular simple-past-tense form of 'to squeeze'. No clue whether it was ever in common use anywhere, but hey I appreciated it. :) Should note btw, just because you seem like someone who'd be interested: it's simple past tense like "froze", not past participle like "frozen". Though I would be delighted to see "squozen" in the wild sometime. :P (bonus btw: "smote" and "smitten" have kinda gone their separate ways now, but they were just the past-simple and past-participle forms of 'to smite')

[@patheddles4004]

@@FicarraClassic And if you're going to use all the vowels in a single word in order, then it's definitely going to be facetious and not abstemious. :D

[@sparkyenergia]

@@patheddles4004 Seems like a good way of getting out of a murder investigation. 'Did you do it?' 'No, I was smitten on her.'

[@fawazsh4831]

We want stories like this. I enjoy listening to them 😊

[@gregortheis9483]

I do believe the John Ficarra is the best storyteller and one of the most genuine enthusiasts on VinWiki.

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

It's only cheating if the rules explicitly say you can't do it... The best wins are the ones that have the most creative interpretations of those rules. Especially when it's the classic "David vs Goliath" underdog tale. Everyone loves a creative and wiley underdog win.

[@straphyr]

Sometimes breaking the spirit of the competition/rules is looked at very negatively, but if it doesn't hurt anyone else and is clever, it might just be interesting enough to be cool

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

@@straphyr Yeah I think Toyota should have been given some sort of an extra award for creativity and the regulatory bodies would look so much cooler if they just said "ha, yeah you got us you wiley buggers! Ten points for being cunning, but we know what to look for next year" Rather than kicking them off the grid.

[@magnacars]

I only watch this channel when it’s John. Love your stories!

[@DrsharpRothstein]

John's stories of racing have the energy of a race with sly technology of the brilliant minds that find a way to win.

[@neilneilorangepeel]

The Focus 03 WRC Car with an air tank in rear bumper is another…

[@superrad1659]

Always love Ficarra's stories!! Such a good story teller, one of the best really, and always such fun/cool/interesting premises.

[@dannotarbartolo8830]

John always has the best stories! I love his knowledge of the cars and all the lore with early racing! I could listen to this guy tell stories for a long time!

[@VisorView]

Reminds me of Honda winning races years ago on the Isle of Man. There was a restriction on tank capacity. Honda used oversize tanks but made of thin alloy. When they crossed the finish line the rider would punch the tank in triumph, thus reducing the capacity back to what it should have been. ECU mods were commonplace. There was no way to check what the ECU programming actually was, the scrutineers could only check the filename. So all that race teams did was change the programming, but use a filename from an approved program.

[@LoganFord91]

I absolutely love hearing these tales and stories. These types of antics and rule bending ideas made racing so exciting. I miss the days when everyone had their own unique ideas and setups. It wasn't just a full field of the same cloned vehicles racing for hours.

[@MagicRemaps]

Love the videos! Always the first thing i search! Keep it up :) Love from ireland

[@enyionyeobia5103]

John F. It’s good to see you back in the Vinwiki chair

[@iiievolution]

For our friends that are not very familiar with WRC. It was the round headlight celica that had the turbo cheat, not the pop up headlight model. As both are shown in the video. Also the drivers were unaware of this. You can see them on KZbin videos being interviewed during the rally and being surprised at well the car performed. Search Corsica wrc 1996

[@DigitalJeremy]

Great stories John, keep em coming

[@redfbody1]

these are the best ...... we need more stories like these from John

[@zszszssz]

Saw the title and knew it'd be a Ficarra one. Love your stories mab

[@mrrolandlawrence]

i love the Schumacher story of the annual driver + helmet weigh in.. it was discovered his helmet was 40kg as it was filled with lead shot. this allowed the driver + car to be a lot lighter :D the 1984 lotus that had ground effect side skirts - ally sheets were so thin that they would give ground effect on a qualifying lap. just do 1 or 2 cooldown laps after to wear to the min height allowed by the FIA. for f1 there are just too many to mention.

[@simanphenix5436]

Love these stories.. Keep up the good work

[@TheCannonball79]

Thanks John for another great video.

[@colinboone9920]

MORE CHEATS VIDEOS! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!

[@bcgrittner]

Gary Nelson saying, “We had no idea”. I can’t stop laughing. You didn’t mention the hidden fuel in the trunk bulkhead. Nelson told that story on TV many years ago. On the TV show Car Crazy Sam Posey told the story of his Trans-Am Challenger that was a collection of cheats from one end to the other. Hilarious stuff.

[@jaball77]

More Ficarra content please!

[@AmandaBaker-qy7cr]

You're a star, keep shining bright!

[@thekydman01]

Not me binging the John Ficarra stories playlist last night just to have a new story today. AWESOMEEEEEEEEEE

[@jjones41988]

One of the best videos in a long time

[@one8s7n]

Kenny was such a good man. He dumped a bucket if water on my head by accident when I was like 8, he thought it was my dad walking through the door. I remember crying hysterical, but he's the man

[@crusherbmx]

Having a famous cheater become the tech inspector isn't just a NASCAR thing, Charlie Whiting, F1 Race Director, was quoted in an interview about his days as a mechanic for Brabham saying, " We never had a legal car."

[@gwaters8067]

"Poacher turned Gamekeeper" is an old saying from where I come from.

[@TheGraffiti600rr]

This was good. Its much appreciated.

[@jbake5022]

Not even really a motorsports fan, but I could listen to John talk racing all day. His passion comes right through the speakers.

[@ashp5406]

We need more of John...

[@Joe___R]

In racing, if you are not cheating, you are not trying hard enough.

[@pjdava]

VINwiki, Subscribed because your videos always make me smile!

[@wh4070]

I always love hearing these stories about ingenuous cheating. Having teched a few spec Miatas in my day, I've seen some pretty good cheats in my days

[@garyonnen7634]

I first heard about the Toyota on BOM, thanks for filling in the rest of the story.

[@craignesbitt7856]

I love the cheating/innovation stories with stick car racing. I grew up around dirt stick cars and have seen alot of cheating/innovation. A good one i have is a chassis builder built a fuel injected engine that looked like at used a carburetor - not legal in dirt late model stock car racing. Fuel rails and injectors were integrated into the under side of the intake in a way that they were harder to notice if you didn't know what you were looking for. The carb basically worked as a throttle body as the fuel injectors controlled the fuel mixture - gave you better throttle responce, more hoursepower and torque. It had a problem when starting as you needed a squirt bottle to spray in the bowls of the carb (fuel was not plumbed to the carb). A person i know fixed to problem with starting by running a secondary pump to pump fuel to the jets in tue carb when starting the car. The person who figured out the fix got to run the engine for a while but was told "don't get caught and dont be too dominant". Had an amazing season with the engine - won a few races but was always in the top 5 that year.

[@whirlingdanish1122]

Fantastic stories as always

[@ksteak27]

Love John's stories!!!

[@TheEutrophic]

Always love these stories

[@talk2thoran]

I haven't laughed this much watching a YT video in ages. More please!

[@Shroomdiffnuclear]

Where have you been John? Love your stories ❤

[@woodyholland9865]

It's always good fun when John sits in VinWIki chair!

[@Mart77]

Ohhh yess, another cheaters' story video! Today is a good day. Please make more of these !!!

[@bob1hebu1lder2]

Not "racing" but still competitive motorsports, in truck pulls, we are limited in engine size depending on class and they test this with a flow machine in the pits. One popular cheat is to put a couple cigarette butts into the combustion chamber through the spark plug holes to make it appear much smaller that it is in actuality. And of course, once you start the engine, they blow out the exhaust and are gone lol

[@grahamkelliher6688]

Love these stories. My Dad was rallying through the 60s, 70s and 80s in Ireland. He failed scrutiny in one Rally, in the 60s, when the Mini Cooper S was missing one crossbeam on the roll cage. They were only intruded that year. So with no time to get a new strut welded in place the got a Plastic Pipe, of the same diameter and similar black colour, and fixed in place with Sticky Tape. Passed scrutiny and off he went Rallying. Them were the days, eh ??? GK.

[@Onimalap]

What a stories!!! Haven’t laughed so much at car stories for a while.

[@forresttm]

John's slimmed down.. Well done him.

[@Pauu3R]

Back in 2003, WRC Ford Focus had a boost tank installed in the rear bumper to prevent anti-lag, absolutely genius

[@HamiltonJamesCars]

yes yes yes, more of these please!!

[@jimmysuperduty1484]

Ficarra is always an immediate thumbs up on the video before it begins

[@polloxdabollox]

Great guy, great stories 👍

[@jeffreyosborne7466]

Thank you for making another cheater video, my friends and I loved your first one and listened to it multiple times. Your new video made my day

[@mikelowery3635]

The story I heard about the Celica, was that the engineers noticed a difference when the car was started. They heard the turbo spooling from the get-go

[@EdBolian]

Creativity abounds!

[@crusherbmx]

I remember the bumber controversy, my teachers were even talking about in school the next day.

[@redneck4482]

Smokey Yunick’s reverse rotation Hudson Hornet ranks up there with some of the best stories as well.

[@KidFury27]

This is exactly the kind of content I come to this channel for. Plus, John is such an amazing story teller. #Moreofthis

[@andrewhunter180]

The head of FIA said about the Toyota one was the most brilliant bit of engineering he had ever seen

[@Mark_Proton]

I love that Toyota story. It was from a time when Toyota was an interesting manufacturer.

[@randomscribblings7192]

Group B racing was insane....I miss it so much

[@northwestrider369]

I was on teams for a while. Teams started to try this again in the 2010’s. NASCAR then made a rule that said the had to have the bumper cover on at all times and made teams start to have extra ones they could rivot or tape on if they were involved in a crash. If you didn’t have a spare or couldn’t get it to stay on, you didn’t go back out on track.

[@krishnapatel2863]

More of these plz

[@Svengali_Fishing]

Awesome story, much better than a boring guy talking about the time he bought a lambo

[@scottnelson1713]

I always love stories of cheating in racing. Thanks for this one.

[@stuartblack9258]

I totally agree with all these other similar comments that John is one of the best storytellers on Vinwiki!❤

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

The Celica GT4 is one of my favorite cars of all time, and I love that story but Toyota stopped running it after that which sucks, tho it supposedly ran by some privateers. The ST205 is so frickin cool.

[@mountainmandale1587]

FiCARra! I love it!

[@AraCarrano]

Filling the cage with birdshot for weigh in, was my favorite DiGard story.

[@mrbigw100]

If you ain’t cheating you ain’t trying

[@kenxiong6830]

This channel needs more Ficarra Stories

[@pierremigneault]

That GT4 rallye thing was just cheeky :)

[@davidlobaugh4490]

Man sure can tell a story 🤠

[@Proteus6684]

I love this guy. He's the only reason I subbed this channel

[@MuyokuDawn]

A VINWIKI STORY ABOUT A CELICA, I CANNOT WAIT!!!

[@davidkirk6249]

Being the owner of a 1989 Celica st185, I can confirm how brilliant these wee ct26 turbocharged cars are.

[@JeremyCulbreath]

Always loved the 90's Celica WRC livery.