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00:00That's how the FIA exposed the brazen cheaters.
00:03In the early 90s, Formula One teams hacked the principle of the start system
00:06and found a way to cheat that allowed them to get ahead at the beginning of the race.
00:10The traffic lights come on one at a time.
00:12After that, the race director starts the Grand Prix manually by pressing a button.
00:15The traffic lights go out and the drivers start racing.
00:18There's always a delay of several moments between pressing the button and the lights going out,
00:21while the signal goes from the button to the traffic light.
00:24And in the 90s, Formula One teams learned how to intercept this signal.
00:28They would direct the horn into the driver's earpiece
00:30and he would start driving even before the traffic lights went out,
00:34without wasting time on visual reaction.
00:36At the same time, there was no false start because the race itself had already formally begun.
00:41The teams that hacked the start system simply destroyed their opponents in the first meters.
00:45When the FIA suspected this, they decided to identify the tricksters at the 99th European Grand Prix.
00:51They have implemented a time delay between the signal and the response from the traffic light.
00:55Five teams were immediately exposed.