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Motorsport's greatest imposters

There are many tightly enforced rules in motorsport - some complex, some simple. but there have been a few extraordinary instances of teams and drivers bending the rules and getting away with it

Pitstop trickery, imaginative designs, covering up cameras - there have been many examples of motorsport teams bending the rules to their favour to try and gain an advantage over the years.

But some ploys are more audacious than others.

Here, we take a look at the times when not all things in racing have been what they appeared, from brotherly shenanigans to cars pretending to be something they're not.

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Author Gary Watkins

Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.

Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.