British rider Mark Fisher has recently been at the center of a scandal that broke out after he said he had no idea what Getty Jones, who has long been his second driver, had told him during the race.
The second pilot was supposed to read a so-called "legend" - a series of notes describing the route of the track, but Fisher called it "a complete nonsense" and that he was kidding the second pilot all these years. “It’s just abracadabra,” he said. “But the organizers believe that during the race there should be two people in the car. Getty is a good guy, so I always took him with me.”
Davis wasly angry at Fisher's words and claimed that they were equal partners in the team, but Fisher immediately denied it.
“Okay, okay,” he cried out. "Listen only - 100 PR2-4 on LV5-1 throw at the outlet! It is 300. And what will this help me when I am carried by the side at a speed of ninety miles per hour?”
Fisher is not the first time he is being discussed because of his role as a second pilot. In 2009, at a rally in Yuvesküla, Finland, without a second driver, he forcibly drove a homeless wanderer into the car, thus fulfilling the condition of "two people in the car." The trick was learned after viewing the recording from the camera installed in the car, which shows how the Finnish second pilot instead of reading the legend repeats "This is shit!“Sometimes inserting phrases like “Care, home!” “Slow down, you are the shit!”