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Meet your new favorite motorsport: pick-up truck racing

You can inform which engine a pick-up is working by its grille.

A season prices round £20,000 (fortunately the pick-ups’ sides lend themselves effectively to sponsorship).

The pick-up is further (round £25,000), however there’s sturdy demand, so if a workforce quits, it may be bought on.

Howard made the pick-ups – round 40 of them – years in the past and gained’t construct any extra. Just a few have been written off, however most are nonetheless going. 

Mechanics swap a rear axle on a pick-up racer

All the drivers look helpful and some boast spectacular CVs.

They embody former BTCC driver Matt Simpson, 2009 World Banger Racing champion Paul Tompkins (helpful if the bumping will get critical) and Mark Willis, a Eurocars veteran who says his rivals are critically underrated and reckons the sequence is essentially the most professionally run of all of them. Past entrants embody BTCC luminaries similar to Paul Radisich.

The first two races are 20 laps, whereas the ultimate is 25.

To hold the racing tight, the positions of the highest six finishers are reversed for the following race, which ends up in shut racing by means of the sphere.

Tailgating supplies what the drivers name a ‘bump draught’, helpful for pulling you alongside. Nip out to overhaul, although, and also you threat a ‘side draught’ which, they are saying, is like hitting the brakes.