I actually do find these more bittersweet than the banger racing I used to watch as a kid. Back then all the bangers were genuinely knackered and would never see the road again, whereas a lot of this newer stuff I've owned, worked on, in some cases when they were brand new doing PDI on them, they look too "modern" to be hooning around a banger track smashing each other to pieces, I think it's just the design that modern cars have that you forget most of this stuff is between 15 and 20 years old. Plus now I live in New zealand, where older cars are looked after, repaired and kept on the road (I've repaired cars where it has literally cost the customer more than the car is worth to fix it, but fix it they have anyway), 90% of the cars I see on these videos would be happily driving around on the road here. We don't have the throwaway attitude to cars here that the uk has.
I did banger racing in the early 70s, the cars we raced would be classed a classics now, I suppose the same will be said about these cars in 30+ years time.
I raced with PRI in the early 70s, we had three heats, a final and a destruction derby. But they don't seem to actually race much now, seems more about just smashing em up. Still like watching them though! 😄👍
Japanese cars may be reliable, but Germans cars (mainly Audi, BMW and Mercedes) are tanks. They may be expensive to run, but they are very solid and their chassis would survive an apocalypse. That Audi A4 was the only car that looked intact, except the driver kept ramming the rear of that Zafira.
Ça prouve vraiment que les voitures elles sont fiables à notre époque bon elles sont fait pour assurer les chocs mais attends quand même solide j'adore le seul car c'est merveilleux je m'ennuie va tous les soirs avec ça
It's mot expired in Feb 2018 so it was off the road for over a year before it met its end here, probably needed a bunch of repairs that were too expensive to be worth it on a then 18 year old car. Still sad though because it looked in good shape at the start apart from the front.
The one in this video failed its mot a year before before race took place so it was obviously in need of expensive repairs, possibly rotten, and seemingly sat on someone's driveway before they finally decided to part company with it.
The more i watch the more i'm convinced the people driving have an IQ of 70 and down, like whats the point of ramming someone in the rear when your opponent has front wheel drive etc, all the critical things are in the front.
