Modern banger racing

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suitable unlimeted cars have been drying up for years ,

 

plenty of small fwd shite kicking about tho .

I guess that scrappage scheme meant most of the big stuff fit for the oval just got fragged.

[Matt]

I can't really get my head around why people enjoy it so much. You race around a simple oval for a bit, crash, someone crashes into you and then you need to buy & build a new car for the next event? I find the idea of autotesting a whole lot more appealing and having done a track day the idea of living nearish a proper track with a trackday car is WAY more appealing, less effort too.

[Wilko220]

I can't really get my head around why people enjoy it so much. You race around a simple oval for a bit, crash, someone crashes into you and then you need to buy & build a new car for the next event?

Formula 1 without the glamour, basically.

[tooSavvy]

^^^^^^^ ouch!

 

Errr..... Each To Their Own s.n.m.

 

 

TS

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I can't really get my head around why people enjoy it so much. You race around a simple oval for a bit, crash, someone crashes into you and then you need to buy & build a new car for the next event? I find the idea of autotesting a whole lot more appealing and having done a track day the idea of living nearish a proper track with a trackday car is WAY more appealing, less effort too.

I'm less anti when you look at what scrappage schemes do. At least most banger racers break the cars for parts first and don't destroy the whole lot.

[Matt]

I'm less anti when you look at what scrappage schemes do. At least most banger racers break the cars for parts first and don't destroy the whole lot.

 

I get that, I just don't see how it can be all that entertaining when compared to other entry level motorsports.

[danthecapriman]

Bloody crazy importing stuff to race. Such a waste.

 

They ain't getting my Mercury, or my Granada for that matter!

[Partridge]

I get that, I just don't see how it can be all that entertaining when compared to other entry level motorsports.

Some people only motorsports for the crashes though!

[chaseracer]

...in destruction derbys in the states the impala's outlawd...

 

It's the perimeter-frame Imperial (Chrysler) that's banned, not the Impala.

[Mr Lobster]

Formula 1 without the glamour, basically.

 

Its not though - I other forms of motorsport the idea is to finish the race in one piece and actually cross the finish line. Yeh some people enjoy seeing crashes (although that I do find a bit odd tbh) but the racers in all other forms of motorsport do try and avoid crashing.

 

It'd be a bit like the winner at horse of the year show being the last horse standing after a team of French butchers have chased the rest of the horses around before reducing them to burgers.

[lisbon_road]

Looking at that film, I can't believe more people aren't hurt or injured.

[RoadworkUK]

Went to the Banger Racing at Foxhall Stadium last night, as it happens. Seems that's where all the Primeras have gone all of a sudden.

 

Loads of frogeye Scorpios (saloons and estates) a pair of Lexus GS300, Omegas, XJ40s, countless Civics, Astra Estates and Coupes and a couple of Supras. The racing was good but not scintillating, the P.A sounded like a foreign railway station announcer and there was no race programme so we had no idea who was racing what.

 

Two cars that I had never seen in the flesh in the UK; Lincoln MKVII and a 1960 (Chrysler) Imperial met their ends.

[DSdriver]

Hmmm, think about it, when cars leave England in containers it's because they have been acquired VERY cheaply.

[Lankytim]

The idea is still to win just like any other sort of racing but with bangers you can try to win by stopping the opposition. Some drivers are just content with the stopping the opposition bit though.

[Matt]

Hmmm, think about it, when cars leave England in containers it's because they have been acquired VERY cheaply.

 

That's exactly what I thought to be honest.

[doobietoo]

 

 

It'd be a bit like the winner at horse of the year show being the last horse standing after a team of French butchers have chased the rest of the horses around before reducing them to burgers.

 

 

Now that i would pay to watch !!!!!!

[Partridge]

Its not though - I other forms of motorsport the idea is to finish the race in one piece and actually cross the finish line. Yeh some people enjoy seeing crashes (although that I do find a bit odd tbh) but the racers in all other forms of motorsport do try and avoid crashing.

 

It'd be a bit like the winner at horse of the year show being the last horse standing after a team of French butchers have chased the rest of the horses around before reducing them to burgers.

I can never get behind the destruction of any car, but I'd rather see stuff bangered than fragged.

[danthecapriman]

Tbh I'm not bothered about it, as long as there's nothing naughty going on with the cars they use (and I know 99.9% are totally legit) I quite enjoy watching it and used to go watch it at various places. I Also used to work with a few guys that used to race.

The thing is, it makes me cringe a bit at some of the cars still being used, old jags, rovers, yanks, rollers (sorry, royces!) and even granada mk1 and 2 are getting so thin on the ground now they really shouldn't be out on the track anymore.

Each to their own though.

[RoadworkUK]

 

This was the Imperial.

 

Photo not deliberately arty, just totally wrong lens for piss-poor light levels.

 

[danthecapriman]

^^shame!

It did some damage though! Nobody stopped it!

[Partridge]

The thing is, it makes me cringe a bit at some of the cars still being used, old jags, rovers, yanks, rollers (sorry, royces!) and even granada mk1 and 2 are getting so thin on the ground now they really shouldn't be out on the track anymore.

Each to their own though.

So much of that stuff is so bloody rotten though. Somebody got hate in the Jag forums recently for breaking a series two with a chassis made out of teabags to banger racing...Never mind the fact the body was shagged and he was offering decent parts for very faire money.

[RedSparrow]

Yeah there was another video from last year with an Imperial in a UK race. It totally destroyed everything in it's path and went on to win. Someone on youtube commented that they're banned from racing in the US because it would go on for hours, 2/3 of them hitting eachother, with people getting up and leaving!

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This was the Imperial.

 

Photo not deliberately arty, just totally wrong lens for piss-poor light levels.

Is it me or does that look like a cover from a '90s indie rock alum?

[Taff]

I find it odd that people import cars to race, given what it costs to import a car, even from the East Coast.

 

then again, if you love your hobby, you will find the money.

 

I've a few mates who race and they are a good source of parts for us yank-tank lovers. Plus, you aren't a real man until you have cut a rear axle out of a Lincoln swinging on a HIAB using a brick cutter

[RedSparrow]

Also if you have a look at the Dutch and Belgian racing they seem to have loads of yank stuff too.

[Taff]

Also if you have a look at the Dutch and Belgian racing they seem to have loads of yank stuff too.

 

I noticed that the youtube clip posted earlier started with dutch-plated HIABs 

[danthecapriman]

So much of that stuff is so bloody rotten though. Somebody got hate in the Jag forums recently for breaking a series two with a chassis made out of teabags to banger racing...Never mind the fact the body was shagged and he was offering decent parts for very faire money.

That's very true. Some of these guys really put some time and effort in patching some utterly rotten cars up to race. They can make them look like really solid, well sorted cars but when you look closer and inside them they are actually total rot boxes. Some are so far gone they practically turn to dust on impact!

Then look at some of the engineering that goes into them to get them running. Non original engine and drivetrain combos, rear axle and suspension swaps etc etc all done with a car hanging from a chain on a hiab!

The guy I used to work with did an Oldsmobile Delta 88, put hours and a lot of money into it aswell, then on the night thought nothing of stacking it full chat into a jag, neither car would ever run again. I think he was only on his second lap too!

 

Really can't get my head around importing stuff, especially from the states, just to paint up with a roller and destroy it though, seems crazy!

Having said that for them it's probably no different to me importing a car to use as a toy on the road. Takes all sorts I suppose!

[Junkman]

put it this way . in destruction derbys in the states the impala's outlawd

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYPsLxh29MM#t=23 world final this year

 

You can bring Impalas any day, it's Imperials that are outlawed at many DDs in America.

An Imperial will yield you a guaranteed win, because it can by default outlast anything in a DD.

[155V6]

Imperials have now been banned at the Dutch Emmen track 

[RedSparrow]

This might be the video I was thinking of. Ipswich world final with 2 Imperials. Amazing how tough they are, no wonder they're being banned all over!