BANGER RACING

[big end floater]

i just dont get it ive watched this video 7or 8 times now and i still dont see the point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK0GsIvQOO4

[G-man]

that looks like arena essex!

[big end floater]

if you watch very carefully theres women too

[G-man]

bugger me there is too!!!! there not wearing the correct ppe

[V all hail to the 8]

Sorry even that pleasing range of fine ass doesn't make that video or song worth watching....

[Richard]

Indeed. Old cars, half naked girls, yet I still find myself lamenting the 4 minutes of my life I can never have back...

[Doughnutter]

Maybee it was the effects of the tyre smoke, the petrol fumes or all the weed I smoked back then, I deffinately don't remember seeing anything like that at Bovingdon raceway, and if I had I certainly would never of packed the banger raceing in.

Oh and they looked way too much like Mk2 Escorts for my liking

[mdh]

Theyre hot rods, not bangers.

Bangers are way more fun, especially with egg, bacon and a fried slice!

[Choppa7]

There was cars in the vid?

[fha772]

I've never seen to point of banger racing, too many good parts going to waste. I know that most of the older cars they use are sheds, but they still have some hard to find parts, etc...

It's such a waste.

[stuartd]

I'm not too keen on banger racing but I'm wondering if they're getting short of cars round south London as someone put a note through my door offering to take my dead cars and send them out in a blaze of glory.. either that or my drive looks like a scrap yard [:)]

[fha772]

I remember going to watch banger racing at Dinnington a couple of years ago.
There was a guy there "racing" a quite tidy bubble arched, rollcaged(proper weld-in 1 not some scaffold tube) MK1 Escort(either more money than sense or not the rightfull owner?), that was a waste.

[bortaf]

I think some of you need to hang out with some racers for a while
I've seen some spend thousands on getting a car ready for top race, i've seen many spend hundreds of hours welding total sheds into race-able sheds.
No differant to spending hundreds of hours welding a car and spending loads on parts just to sell it or scrap it in a few years time, when you realise you've bitten off more than you can chew
Most of em run classics and retros and ni-on all i've met are happy to sell you stuff at cheapo prices if you need it (or more importantly if you bother to ask ) .
Yes there are twats, as there are in all walks of life and yes there are theives who steal cars to race but IMHO they in the minoraty, a very small minoraty.
Some tracks even now require the car to keep it's ID and have a V5 before they let it race.
They are not all bad, mad? yes.

[Tezzel]

Right that is not banger racing.

They are stock cars and not very good ones at that. It's contact racing yes, but they are built to take it. Look at this clip and you will see that all of them continue afterwards;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB8cUUEvY9E&feature=related

O and that has packed grids with more overtaking in one lap than an entire GP. (Incidently is'nt it great to have The Chain back as the F1 theme)

Hotrods are these;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFa-Th3PUO8&feature=channel_page

And you would be doing well to get a modern national hotrod for £20k, no one is going to smash that kind of investment up are they?

Banger racing is this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFhbIROGDg8&feature=related

Yes it's moronic, yes classic bangers are a crime, but it's great entertainment. When there were enough Sierras to supply every UK rep in the 80's do you really want to save them all? You couldn't and probably wouldn't want to. So if they are getting crushed anyway why not let them go out properly! And bortaf is right most of the cars are utter sheds. A lick of paint can actually polish the proverbial from 2-3m away. Search Speedworth or Segto and go support your local motorsport!

Rant ended

Tezzel

[fha772]

Hi Bortaf, 1 of my mates used to banger race and he , like me, hated the classic races. As he said a car heading for the scrapyard was fair game. But most of the classic racers he knew where going and buying sound projects, promising the previous owners that they were going to finish the restoration they could no longer afford to complete.
He used to be a car theif in the past(he's been locked up 3 times for it, now he's a single parents and hasn't do owt illegal in over 9 years.), and he says most races he entered in were probibly 50-60% stolen cars, although the organisers and racers would tell you different.
I know that alot are now dealing with this problem, but there's alot who aren't too.
He's now trying to get the money together to enter stock racing.