It’s not like regular short-track amateur racing is dangerous enough. Everybody is looking out for Number One and only Number One, and everybody else can either pack it up and go home or experience the wrath that only a hardened racer like Dale Earnhardt, Sr. on a bad day could dish out. It doesn’t matter if it’s a simple bump-pass circle track run or figure eight laps…if you aren’t in first, PIT maneuver every last idiot out of your way until you are, then watch your ass.
On a side note, ever notice how many fights there are between drivers at some of these events?
Another chapter in the great big book of British banger racing categories is “caravan racing”, this time from Angmaring Raceway. Everything is as you’d expect: strip out a camper trailer, hook it to the back of whatever cheap scrap heap you found that still runs and drives, and proceed to let out decades of pent-up road rage on the poor bastard who is in front of your rear bumper. And within minutes, the racing aspect gets lost in the moment and everything piles up in the kind of mess that resembles the “after” picture of a Michael Bay film than anything else. You can thank Jeremy Clarkson for spooling up the hate for camping trailers during his time at TopGear, but somehow we don’t think he deserves all the credit for the carnage you’re about to see below.
My favorite part was when they had a pile-up that blocked the entire track, and several of the drivers decided they’d just try bulldozing through anyway! British oval track racing seems to take mayhem to a whole new level.
There should be at least one incontinent beige clad oldie in each caravan ready to shoot out slicks of the ol’ brown stuff to foil drivers trying to bulldoze their way through
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