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
    @iancarrey4123 Před 24 dny +2067

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

    • @ChrisLoew
      @ChrisLoew Před 23 dny +36

      bingo

    • @jamesrowland2002
      @jamesrowland2002 Před 23 dny

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

    • @straphyr
      @straphyr Před 23 dny +78

      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
      @spoolyboi9434 Před 23 dny +44

      @@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
      @NarwahlGaming Před 22 dny +53

      _"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
    @chuckschultz7028 Před 24 dny +635

    The biggest cheaters never got caught and never bragged afterwards.

    • @robertmaybeth3434
      @robertmaybeth3434 Před 23 dny +70

      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
      @aaronarmstrong9776 Před 22 dny +5

      Chad Knaus comes to mind

    • @ElAirHawk
      @ElAirHawk Před 19 dny +26

      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
      @friedsensei Před 17 dny +7

      ​@@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
      @user-oe1mb9hu9i Před 13 dny

      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
    @jauken83 Před 24 dny +309

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

    • @chucktaylor2772
      @chucktaylor2772 Před 21 dnem +2

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

    • @bmacx
      @bmacx Před 17 dny +1

      @@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
      @tyleravery5598 Před dnem

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

    • @adeelahmed1319
      @adeelahmed1319 Před 19 hodinami

      Hilarious? You mean ingenious.

  • @speedy7892
    @speedy7892 Před 23 dny +140

    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
      @robertmaybeth3434 Před 23 dny +17

      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
      @speedy7892 Před 23 dny +19

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

    • @acoffeewithsatan
      @acoffeewithsatan Před 22 dny

      @@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
      @overbuiltlimited Před 21 dnem +1

      Lol. That's hilarious!

    • @randindragonheart4558
      @randindragonheart4558 Před 17 hodinami

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

  • @yotafan174
    @yotafan174 Před 24 dny +203

    John is one of the GOATS of Vinwiki!!!

  • @violinmiata
    @violinmiata Před 24 dny +348

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

    • @dereckcensner4647
      @dereckcensner4647 Před 18 dny

      John is by far the best story teller on here

    • @MoreBollocks-ui2zs
      @MoreBollocks-ui2zs Před 15 dny

      @@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
      @lucatitoq4781 Před 11 dny +1

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

    • @nataliemadrid5275
      @nataliemadrid5275 Před 11 dny

      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
      @lucatitoq4781 Před 11 dny

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

  • @Skydrag.V60
    @Skydrag.V60 Před 24 dny +324

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

    • @BillyBob-im7og
      @BillyBob-im7og Před 24 dny +7

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

    • @duress8801
      @duress8801 Před 24 dny +2

      ​@@BillyBob-im7ogthumbnail autoplay i think

    • @jauken83
      @jauken83 Před 24 dny +1

      Absolutely, same with Chris

    • @Tclans
      @Tclans Před 24 dny +1

      Here too. Instantly!
      #carcheatseries

    • @speaker9694
      @speaker9694 Před 24 dny

      Nice v60!

  • @jdmmike7225
    @jdmmike7225 Před 24 dny +350

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

    • @maybenot6075
      @maybenot6075 Před 24 dny +42

      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
      @Celician83 Před 24 dny +11

      @@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
      @rvarsigfusson6163 Před 21 dnem +1

      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
      @maybenot6075 Před 21 dnem

      @@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
      @Celician83 Před 21 dnem +1

      @@maybenot6075 I follow a CZcams 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
    @kain0m Před 23 dny +41

    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
    @gofastandwynn Před 24 dny +57

    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
      @-ragingpotato-937 Před 20 dny +2

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

    • @JamesHolbrook-eh5sp
      @JamesHolbrook-eh5sp Před 18 dny +1

      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
      @parentsbasement7734 Před 9 dny

      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
      @bionicgeekgrrl Před dnem

      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
    @FicarraClassic Před 24 dny +122

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

    • @rmp5s
      @rmp5s Před 24 dny +3

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

    • @AnomalousOne1401
      @AnomalousOne1401 Před 23 dny +2

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

    • @Iherb7365ket
      @Iherb7365ket Před 23 dny

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

    • @qwertykeyboardwarrior
      @qwertykeyboardwarrior Před 21 dnem +1

      I misinterpreted the rules....

    • @B0BBYGAMER
      @B0BBYGAMER Před 20 dny

      So when are those car trek cheaters coming back? lol

  • @JeffHendricks
    @JeffHendricks Před 24 dny +20

    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...

  • @beamdriver5
    @beamdriver5 Před 24 dny +49

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

  • @potcommitted5355
    @potcommitted5355 Před 24 dny +30

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

    • @robertmaybeth3434
      @robertmaybeth3434 Před 23 dny +3

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

  • @benzina5917
    @benzina5917 Před 24 dny +30

    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
      @Megaphone77 Před 21 dnem +3

      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
    @nathanzimmerman1402 Před 22 dny +10

    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!

  • @Celician83
    @Celician83 Před 24 dny +29

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

  • @MikesAMiner
    @MikesAMiner Před 24 dny +96

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

    • @jdmmike7225
      @jdmmike7225 Před 24 dny +5

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

    • @jeremyhanna3852
      @jeremyhanna3852 Před 23 dny +4

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

    • @ssnerd583
      @ssnerd583 Před 23 dny +1

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

    • @russellhltn1396
      @russellhltn1396 Před 22 dny

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

    • @dwc4343
      @dwc4343 Před 12 dny +1

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

  • @jasonlanglois7906
    @jasonlanglois7906 Před 18 dny +6

    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
    @blauw67 Před 24 dny +18

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

  • @greggdavies5916
    @greggdavies5916 Před 24 dny +10

    Always loved the ford focus boost tank in the rear bumper

  • @alaeriia01
    @alaeriia01 Před 23 dny +5

    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.

  • @ejkrakowiak6905
    @ejkrakowiak6905 Před 24 dny +19

    John of course I'm gonna watch

  • @AI.Overlord.X
    @AI.Overlord.X Před 24 dny +8

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

    • @MrTheHillfolk
      @MrTheHillfolk Před 19 dny

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

  • @rmp5s
    @rmp5s Před 24 dny +30

    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
      @FicarraClassic Před 23 dny +10

      I do love me a facetious past participle!

    • @rmp5s
      @rmp5s Před 23 dny +3

      @@FicarraClassic Of COURSE you do.

    • @patheddles4004
      @patheddles4004 Před 20 dny +1

      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
      @patheddles4004 Před 20 dny

      @@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
      @sparkyenergia Před 20 dny

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

  • @fawazsh4831
    @fawazsh4831 Před 24 dny +10

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

  • @gregortheis9483
    @gregortheis9483 Před 23 dny +3

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

  • @C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13
    @C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 Před 24 dny +37

    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
      @straphyr Před 23 dny

      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
      @C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 Před 23 dny +2

      @@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
    @magnacars Před 23 dny +1

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

  • @DrsharpRothstein
    @DrsharpRothstein Před 23 dny +3

    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
    @neilneilorangepeel Před 23 dny +7

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

  • @superrad1659
    @superrad1659 Před 20 dny +1

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

  • @dannotarbartolo8830
    @dannotarbartolo8830 Před 22 dny +1

    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
    @VisorView Před 16 dny +1

    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
    @LoganFord91 Před 24 dny +2

    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
    @MagicRemaps Před 24 dny +2

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

  • @enyionyeobia5103
    @enyionyeobia5103 Před 23 dny +3

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

  • @iiievolution
    @iiievolution Před 21 dnem +1

    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 CZcams videos being interviewed during the rally and being surprised at well the car performed. Search Corsica wrc 1996

  • @DigitalJeremy
    @DigitalJeremy Před 23 dny +1

    Great stories John, keep em coming

  • @zszszssz
    @zszszssz Před 19 dny +1

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

  • @redfbody1
    @redfbody1 Před 23 dny +1

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

  • @mrrolandlawrence
    @mrrolandlawrence Před 19 dny +1

    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
    @simanphenix5436 Před 4 dny

    Love these stories.. Keep up the good work

  • @TheCannonball79
    @TheCannonball79 Před 24 dny +1

    Thanks John for another great video.

  • @colinboone9920
    @colinboone9920 Před 6 dny

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

  • @bcgrittner
    @bcgrittner Před 23 dny +3

    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
    @jaball77 Před 24 dny +4

    More Ficarra content please!

  • @AmandaBaker-qy7cr
    @AmandaBaker-qy7cr Před 24 dny +26

    You're a star, keep shining bright!

  • @thekydman01
    @thekydman01 Před 23 dny +1

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

  • @jjones41988
    @jjones41988 Před 24 dny +1

    One of the best videos in a long time

  • @one8s7n
    @one8s7n Před 24 dny +1

    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
    @crusherbmx Před 23 dny +2

    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
      @gwaters8067 Před 20 dny +1

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

  • @TheGraffiti600rr
    @TheGraffiti600rr Před 11 dny

    This was good. Its much appreciated.

  • @jbake5022
    @jbake5022 Před 22 dny

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

  • @ashp5406
    @ashp5406 Před 24 dny +2

    We need more of John...

  • @Joe___R
    @Joe___R Před 21 dnem +2

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

  • @pjdava
    @pjdava Před 24 dny +2

    VINwiki, Subscribed because your videos always make me smile!

  • @wh4070
    @wh4070 Před 24 dny +1

    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
    @garyonnen7634 Před 24 dny +1

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

  • @craignesbitt7856
    @craignesbitt7856 Před 23 dny +1

    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
    @whirlingdanish1122 Před 23 dny

    Fantastic stories as always

  • @ksteak27
    @ksteak27 Před 23 dny +1

    Love John's stories!!!

  • @TheEutrophic
    @TheEutrophic Před 20 dny

    Always love these stories

  • @talk2thoran
    @talk2thoran Před 20 dny

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

  • @bob1hebu1lder2
    @bob1hebu1lder2 Před 23 dny +1

    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

  • @Shroomdiffnuclear
    @Shroomdiffnuclear Před 12 dny +1

    Where have you been John? Love your stories ❤

  • @woodyholland9865
    @woodyholland9865 Před 23 dny +1

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

  • @Mart77
    @Mart77 Před 22 dny +1

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

  • @grahamkelliher6688
    @grahamkelliher6688 Před 15 dny

    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
    @Onimalap Před 23 dny

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

  • @Pauu3R
    @Pauu3R Před 6 dny

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

  • @forresttm
    @forresttm Před 23 dny +1

    John's slimmed down..
    Well done him.

  • @HamiltonJamesCars
    @HamiltonJamesCars Před 24 dny +2

    yes yes yes, more of these please!!

  • @jimmysuperduty1484
    @jimmysuperduty1484 Před 23 dny +1

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

  • @polloxdabollox
    @polloxdabollox Před 23 dny

    Great guy, great stories 👍

  • @jeffreyosborne7466
    @jeffreyosborne7466 Před 23 dny

    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
    @mikelowery3635 Před 13 dny

    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
    @EdBolian Před 23 dny +1

    Creativity abounds!

  • @crusherbmx
    @crusherbmx Před 23 dny

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

  • @redneck4482
    @redneck4482 Před 14 dny

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

  • @KidFury27
    @KidFury27 Před 11 dny

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

  • @andrewhunter180
    @andrewhunter180 Před 3 dny

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

  • @Mark_Proton
    @Mark_Proton Před 23 dny +2

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

  • @randomscribblings7192
    @randomscribblings7192 Před 20 dny

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

  • @northwestrider369
    @northwestrider369 Před 22 dny

    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
    @krishnapatel2863 Před 18 dny

    More of these plz

  • @Svengali_Fishing
    @Svengali_Fishing Před 23 dny +2

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

  • @scottnelson1713
    @scottnelson1713 Před 23 dny

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

  • @hi_tech_reptiles
    @hi_tech_reptiles Před 23 dny +1

    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
    @mountainmandale1587 Před 24 dny +2

    FiCARra! I love it!

  • @stuartblack9258
    @stuartblack9258 Před 23 dny +1

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

  • @AraCarrano
    @AraCarrano Před 19 dny

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

  • @mrbigw100
    @mrbigw100 Před 17 dny +2

    If you ain’t cheating you ain’t trying

  • @kenxiong6830
    @kenxiong6830 Před 22 dny

    This channel needs more Ficarra Stories

  • @pierremigneault
    @pierremigneault Před 13 dny

    That GT4 rallye thing was just cheeky :)

  • @davidlobaugh4490
    @davidlobaugh4490 Před 23 dny +1

    Man sure can tell a story 🤠

  • @Proteus6684
    @Proteus6684 Před 17 dny +1

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

  • @MuyokuDawn
    @MuyokuDawn Před 24 dny

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

  • @davidkirk6249
    @davidkirk6249 Před dnem

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

  • @JeremyCulbreath
    @JeremyCulbreath Před 23 dny

    Always loved the 90's Celica WRC livery.