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Photos by Chloë King W W W. V i Va L E W E s . C o M baNger raCiNg Chloë king goes trackside I first saw the bangers last August Bank Holiday with a family friend in his eighties; he loved ‘the stocks’ as a young man, and was excited to relive the spectacle. We had a grand day out, the place was packed, and we left smiling, our ears ringing and hair smelling. This time it’s a Wednesday night and although the ample, grass car park seems half full, the arena looks half empty. Spedeworth Motorsports, in its fiftieth year, has regular fixtures in eight tracks across the UK. The racers meet at Arlington on Wednesday evenings throughout the summer, and of their main venues, it’s here that the audience is ‘closest to the action’. Aside from the ticket price – £12 full, £10 concessions, and £6 for kids aged 5-14 – passing through the gate is like going back to a time when everyone knew how to put things together. On the outdoor and the sheltered terraces, most people have set themselves up comfortably in camping chairs, but being unequipped, I pay an extra quid to sit in the grandstand. Round the back is a licensed clubhouse, and takeaway vans that fill the air with the scent of bangers and chips. I’m distracted from the sight of a man gorging on mayo by the sound of the Ministox driving onto the starting lines. Each race formula has its own rolling start tune, and every one sounds like something off a hairy fairground ride or a borderline children’s TV show from the 70s. The kids m o t o r r a c i n g love it, and there are lots of them here. It turns out this evening’s meet is for the trainees. There are many different race ‘formulas’ for all levels of drivers and various vintage and modern cars, so each week’s programme is slightly different. The Ministox are reconditioned 1000cc Minis meticulously sprayed in bright colours, for boy and girl racers aged 11-16 to ‘cut their teeth’. From the off, the cars scream round the track to an excited commentator, and the atmosphere is thick. After the Ministox come the Rookie Rods: a ‘lowbudget, non-contact’ formula class of Novas, Fiestas and Corsas. The flame-haired boy in front of me is kitted out in full clobber and enjoying the noise, but it’s a few years yet before he can have a go. Tonight’s third and final group are the Bangers: write-offs of course, lovingly resurrected as racers. Unlike the ‘Nationals’, this racing formula is limited contact, but even so there’s enough one-on-one to engulf the track in thick smoke, and when they crash near the barrier my heart is in my mouth. By the end of their third race tonight, only a few bangers drive off unaided. I stand by the entrance to the pit as the sun sets, watching them rumble off the track, drivers beaming from ear to ear. This ritualistic and exhilarating event has retained the allure of danger, and, it’s clear from the first that this is a way of life. In an age when cash and pampering has turned mainstream sports soft, banger racing remains intoxicatingly real. 3 3
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