Street racing: inside the secretive world - BBC London
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- UK Street racers say they use public roads because race tracks shut too early and leave them with nowhere else to go at night. But with loud meet-ups happening most weeks, some residents are fed up.
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How bout no
No
Thats a no from me!! sooner you lot are in the private sector, the better. Go earn your living off subscribers & ads like every other broadcaster has to and stop mooching off the general public. its 2021 not 1955, time you stood on your own feet!
Give the kids what they need and stop being so selfish you older generation.
Tim Rodriguez can’t agree more
@Slippschitts Hey yep lol
@Slippschitts Hey thats different
@Slippschitts Hey what's wrong with that?
@Slippschitts Hey that's a lot different you muppet
Atleast there not dealing drugs ffs
@tikka masala not as much as people drug dealing
@tikka masala Who said I said it was ok? Calm down and read before you respond.
@tikka masala Bruh, you said "does that make it ok then". What do you think that means. Are you honestly arguing online about speeding? If you don't like it, do something about it rather than arguing on a CZcams comment section you dumbass.
@tikka masala You should learn basic English and come up with better insults. It's you that should get out your moms basement. Or maybe get a life and stop trying to act all smart online when really you're still struggling to learn your A B Cs? Now I'm going to block you and get on with my life. I don't have time for kids who know nothing.
tikka masala speed doesn’t kill, suddenly stopping does
What do you expect, we build race tracks, people move close to them and complain about the noise so they get shut down. We go to car meets and people complain and the police shut them down. Where do they expect people to go?
They expect us to have normal vauxhall merivas. We're fighting back.
So they are busy with people enjoying their car rather than arresting actual criminals like bike/car thieves, murderers and rapist but busy with people having abit of fun in a car park
They aren't in a car park you plonker!
They are idiot
@@collinslfc I mean, they are. Most meetups are at car parks.
Down the high street
No one can stop us car enthusiasts
No, but they can stop you pricks.
The Mighty Dash believe me 😂they can’t if ur a real enthusiastic
Oh yeah yeah
The death can 😑😑
Huehuehue
It’s Prince Phillip you need to watch out for 👀
Peado Phillip
Why?
LMAOOOO
😂😂😂
😂
If i was kept up at night by the noise of some of those exhausts id be blessed
HWS3 😂😂
Sometimes when laying in bed i hear distant exhaust notes and it helps me get to sleep
Yeah exhaust notes are soothing for me
Mee TOO
Same
They think we don't have control of the car😂🤦♂️
they think its luck but its skill
MrGoat MK at them high speeds luck always plays a part
I'd like to see him say that to a professional racing driver and see their response
@@S55M3 if he's competing, he is professional
@@S55M3 im pretty sure Ben from Croydon driving in his Corsa VXR-Line is very far from a professional drivier.
I’m from the same area and this is usually only done on a weekend and it’s not this exaggerated LOL go after the real criminals feds 😂😂😂😂😂
The Invincible V8 Enfield:)
It’s mainly the people without modified cars that are speeding and ending up dying
So these people in their modified cars are sticking to the speed limits are they?
I hate those people with trashy old Honda's that try to make them sound like a Lamborghini.
@@collinslfc these modified cars are usually built up to handle the kinds of speeds they'll be seeing as opposed to a civic doing 220kph
@@chiefdenis And? Does it say in the Highway Code that it is permissible to travel at speeds above the speed limit providing you have a car capable of doing so? That must have changed because I didn't read that when I took my theory test.
@@collinslfc and? Have you always abided by every single rule you have ever been told to obey by a privileged human being? Cause last time i checked humans aren't robots and like to push the limits every once in a while, or are you soulless and have never had the need to feel good by doing what you love?
UK needs more for places and things to do for it's people - Like they have over in the US. Why can't there be proper cars and coffee, paid race tracks etc.
I think our way of having fun is going on holiday - in another country - couple of times a year
Dennis Bergkamp that’s normal life , innit? Or you think in USA, don’t have people doing street races too? Even they have more things to do? And in USA it’s the same, if you born poor, or working class , without money, you have nothing to do
@@ollac3758 it's not about normal or not. I'm saying we need more activities to do here in the UK
Yeah I don't call going to Benidorm or Ibiza and just get wasted fun
And were is the money coming from for all that? With all the things in society that aren't well funded enough ironically such as the police. Is racing that high on the priority list. Im not against car racing. But if its your hobby paying expensive to go on a track is part of it. The difference is bungee jumpers dont put others children and wives life at risk because they cant work a high paid job to afford to go on a track. Bungee jumpers don't keep old people up at night. Bungee jumpers dont effect pollution.
we do have that but they knobs in the video said its too expensive
Installing more cameras to stop 🛑 more offences. Yeah and not to try and make money...sure....🤷♂️
Yes and most borough in london is running 20mph speed limit already
Even a cyclist can speed...
I can’t help but think those cameras in a 20mph zone is nothing but a money making machine...
The council has to pay for speed cameras, but they don't get the proceeds from the fines
Why are they using footage from Mexico?
@Bob Pegram No speed limits in "mexico"
Bob Pegram its what car enthusiasts say as we where in Mexico when it happened but we weren’t in Mexico, basically if we break road laws it’ll then fall into the Mexican road laws
Lmao
only car people will understand XD
Just look at Japan’s night racing scene and then provide a place for us racers to go
Billy Smith you should see Texas and Mexico’s night racing scene
Bloody hell, they're not thugs, we just tryna have some fun😂😂😂
DiecastRestorations UK lock us up lol
*Oi! You got a license for that m8?*
@@lukemmurphy795 "its an m3 officer"
I’m a car enthusiast. I like driving fast. People think that driving like this is just “luck” and that we cannot properly control our cars. It’s not luck, it’s skill.
If you're driving twice the speed limit in a town, in the dark, you are a reckless fool and are not in proper control, full stop
@@grassytramtracks rally drivers:
It's not luck until it's someone elses unlucky day
cope harder bro, not reckless when you are experienced, takes a certain person to be able to street race, a track racer cant street race and weave as well, you train the mind and the eyes.@@grassytramtracks
If you were that "skilful" at it, then go and join a professional racing team.
It’s happening all across the UK, it’s very normal in all honestly 😂 strange seeing a video like this making out it’s as bad as knife crime or grooming
UK needs to get it's priority straight.
It’s all fun and games until one of them crashes at 70mph into a barrier or mounts a pavement as he spins out and hits a pedestrian
Hydraz 70mph is the legal speed limit in all the videos in this item, other than the drifting E63 which was on private land (which I would say is dangerous)
S Miller I’m talking about racing through streets not motorways
It's Mexico..
ban raves ban weed ban everything and people are suprised why theres so much voilence in london.
Idiot.
So true and if people cuss your comment they living in there mums spare room on a ps2 with 5£ electric to suvive on,thay havent lived.
G u couldn’t of said that any better
I think they are benefiting from the crimes because then they can fine people. They don’t care about ending lowering crime by making things legal like Netherlands.
@Arun K It's violence with an Irish accent.
Living next to country side roads at night is a blessing 👌
Idiots are closing down all the race tracks no wonder people race on the roads . We have 1 proper dragway in the country and all the other circuit tracks either have rediculous rules as stated or the price for a track day is out of this world.
exactly and they dont care. they just wanna stop all car enthusiasts or make money out of them. in america they actually respect that people have passions. u can easily go to a racetrack for free there if u know people but in england u would have to own the place to go for free
If you can't pay, tough, that's your problem not mine, doesn't make street racing any less dangerous and annoying
They need to do more like in America. They have drag strips which you can just go and use at your own risk. They have cars & coffee meets, they do loads to try stop racing happening on the streets!
Loads of the race tracks in the UK are only open on select days, with very strict rules even on RWYB days.
There’re so many abandoned old airplane runways in the UK these could be opened up to people on a ‘at your own risk policy’ you smash your car up or someone else’s it’s on you.
Have you seen California?
@@rapidshot3033 News flash: California does not sum up the entire US. Here in NH I can drive 30 mins to the drag strip, pay $20, and make as many passes as I want over a 5 hour period of time.
Noise complaints in Enfield good joke. The closest houses from where meets are held in Enfield are a mile down the road. They are held in industrial areas for a reason. No one goes to industrial estates such as these during these times as everything is shut and we leave before workers and delivery vans arrive. Love how they don't mention that the other day the reason the police were cracking down so much is because 1. A police officer run over a girls foot didn't even apologise then the officers car got attacked by a small minority of people there (which was wrong granted). 2. A drunk driver did a hand brake turn into a few people resulting in them being hospitalised. Just because we are okay with driving the way we do from time to time does not mean we are even slightly okay with drink driving. It is an awful offence and should be dealt with as such.
Wowwwww that's nuts!
I live in Enfield and I recognised that tescos in one of the clips. I'm surprised that this is an issue and I didn't know about it myself. That tescos is far away from houses and is kind of in a industrial estate so hopefully it doesn't disturb people at home. Some nights I do hear some boy racers booting it and hearing their loud exhaust. Although these meets are away from houses some people still be foolish revving their loud cars late night in built up areas whilst travelling to the meet. I wouldn't want to think if they have consideration for other road users.
I live in Enfield and if I was 20/30 something I would be down there with em. Enjoy your cars and enjoy being young and keep on doing what you do.
I live a few rows away from the A10 so I can hear it. If they want to be reckless that's up to them but I really wish they wouldn't race at high speed through the residential streets like they do, you can only get one car down our road because of cars parked either side and there is always children running around in between the cars. We get people racing up and down our street all through the day, most other roads have speed bumps but ours doesn't so its a target.
Enfield is 2 min away from me. My road is super long and empty at night with only 1 cam so uno what that means
What's up with noise complaints in big cities on cars? Don't most big cities have major airports near by with big airplane noise that shakes up building? How can you tell cars to not make noise lol when planesmake noise all the time
Donny VR6 exactly
@@Danyal_ it's a bunch of BS $$ grab.
You mean heathrow right?
@@skylineXpert yes but I'm talking about every major city in the world. Not just for London.
I agree with you Donny, but let's not forget about the London Underground, National Rail and also the excessive use of police helicopters, their sirens and other BS that causes even more noise.
Top it off, business starts at 8am, what about construction works going on? Yet BBC wants to pin it all on car enthusiasts.
There are a handful of idiotic drivers that use their cars in the most ridiculous places, small residential areas and always tend to get themselves into an accident which makes other car enthusiasts suffer.
the BBC IS TOP SNAKES !!!
I personally love the soundtrack of the a10 enfield. Helps me sleep
HONDA GANG WAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAP
All. Show no go hahaha.
@@m140jam5 Yeah thats why the majority of FWD records in drag racing and time attack are held by them hahahaha.
@@lordsimon6141 Modified Honda is still a Honda.
@@lordsimon6141 half of the hondas boosted last a couple Months then blow up 😂
K20rotrex bwaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Cop: "Take it to the track"
Me: "Build the track with free entry and I will"
Exactly they complain about the street racing and then close down our race tracks. Look at how many short ovals have been closed in the past few years. Pathetic
I'm 54 yrs old with a supercharged 10R80 Mustang. Here in South Australia we are fortunate to have a dedicated legal roll and drag racing venue. In your currency it costs only 50 quid to go and get it out of your system every 3 or so weeks. Your up against anything from turbo civic to a Mclaren. Best fun ever. Safe, legal and fun. Everyone gets it out of their system this way without worry!
“Driving in cars that are built to be loud and fast”
They make it sound as if it’s the fast and furious up here where people are purposefully modding their cars for street racing, when in reality these people are just modding their cars to their own tastes
But you don't insure them. I bet not one of them declared very significant modifications to their vehicles to their insurer = Un-insured. (They could not even afford the true insurance on a modified vehicle). Police need to prey on this - easy fines, easy prosecution & idiots taken off the road/cars crushed.
A criminal offence to rev ours car 😐 ok then
JD_k20 lol old hags pissed at us
I know. Car abuse.
LoooooL
Small country ridiculous rules
well Fart cans need to be gone
'Specially made to be LOUD and FAST'
WHAT?!
Leave them alone man
Because it’s only “car enthusiasts” that speed...
Where else are you gonna test out your Audi S3 stage 2? The road obviously! Honestly it’s not speed that kills its impact - as once famously said by the legendary Jeremy clarkson
Us car enthusiasts can't stop our passion!
Go to a race track then... That's what race tracks are for, not the roads on London city centre.
@@haha-zq3ot omg that’s so cool!
YOBS - None are insured - I bet not one of them declared very significant modifications to their vehicles to their insurer = Un-insured. (They could not even afford the true insurance on a modified vehicle). Police need to prey on this - easy fines, easy prosecution & idiots taken off the road/cars crushed. Pay insurance for 'your passion'.
People whinge about the noise from race tracks, so they get shut down, then people moan about street racing, saying "do it on a track." Well, maybe if you short sighted idiots hadn't forced all the tracks to close, maybe people wouldn't resort to racing on the streets.
There is not a better feeling than spanking a cocky driver in a race
This feels like a vice document
Gadarinco - It’s not that bad!
Add more speed cameras? Prevents speeding/racing?
MATE, IM ALREADY DRIVING BLIND BECAUSE IM FOCUSED ON MY CLOCKS MORE THAN THE ROAD.
More speed cameras more traffic more accidents it wouldn't solve this problem the only solution is to give them a place where they can meet so it's up to the Council
Instead of spending money on cameras spend the money on the place 100 times better investment
daniel siwak agreed, but I’m sure the government just wants to use this to make more money. I doubt they actually care about people’s safety lol
@@DanielSadjadian its about money bro
They have a place to meet, it's called a race track, there are probably more in the UK than anywhere else. They are CHEAP,a trackday is £100. they are driving nearly £50,000 cars some of them. THEY need to pay for their hobby, NOT us. Everyone else pays for their trackdays. Why can't these people?
The Mighty Dash because there bums and drug dealers I do trackdays and it’s loads more fun you can properly push it and if you go off your fine 👍🏁
Speed cameras don't work, hence why they now turning half. Of London into a average speed zones.
This country needs more racetracks and they should stay open longer too. Simple as
Simply put, keep racing.
The bbc make everything people do is sooo bad😂😂
Build them a dual carriageway two round abouts and problem solved street racing is live keep
It’s been happening for years n years these youngsters didn’t invent it get a grip
Breaking news: people race cars! Not like this has been going on for over a century or anything.
I go to car meets all the time.. chasing people up and down main roads is the safest thing you can do in terms of “racing” like they shown in video..
After years of doing so I think the only crash that’s ever happened was a bloke drifting round in a car park hit a curb and left himself without a bottom arm😂
Getting out on the b-roads is where the real danger is if you want me to be brutally honest but no cop car is gunna keep up with a specially prepared car and a half decent driver behind the wheel.. it’ll always happen, people just have to know where to put the hammer down🤘🏼
I've binned it on a b road myself, put it on its roof 😂 I dare a copper to try and give me a run on the twisties, have to get the helicopter out if they want to see me again 👀 margin of error is so small, one error or miscalculation and you're saying hello to a tree
had to be Enfield loool
Exactly. Rofl. 😂😂😂
®ioT them A10 runs 😂
So what, nothing is wrong with doing pulls on the motorway at 1AM, no one is getting hurt. If they were straight up racing in the middle of daytime traffic then its a problem. Why don't they focus on stopping knife crime and moped thieves
These type of stuffs are better then killing each other in London. We ain’t no thugs we just want to enjoy life with our love for cars. Give us more racetracks make them cheap for us then these things wouldn’t happen who agrees with me ?
UK Gov: Shut down some of those race tracks and impose stupid rules on peoples cars at the others.
Also UK Gov: WhY Is eVeRyBoDy sTrEeT RaCiNg?????
Need for Speed: UK
Replace the crown vics with astra diesels and ovlovs
@@blathers_13 An Astra wouldn't catch a stock 30 year old golf lmao.
@@lukemmurphy795 add the power of "OOIIIIIII" in there and its a different story tho 😉
Oh no wait, they're still slow 😂
Its the rented whips like that E63 that they need to watch out for. The people that actually own their cars drive fast yes, but at least they dont lob it at roundabouts and hit some family car and leg it.
Carmadnab how do you know its rented? Thats what all jealous people say. Do you know how much it would cost to rent a car like that. Bet you ain’t even got 5k in your bank. Its my pals whip and it ain’t rented
@@borndying8942 Lool sorry didnt know that but it aint expensive to rent these cars - about 400 a day. And please dont insult me for a mistake i assumed just like you did about my bank balance. I mean its not like my father owns a Rolls Royce Ghost by any chance(!)
@@313-Badr Why would I be jealous when my father owns a vehicle almost 5X the worth of that E63...
@@borndying8942 , Lol i own a 2011 Audi S3 worth £11,000
@@carmadnab because that's your fathers not yours lol
I cant wait to get my car and start doing some street racing! yay
BBC made the best ad to start street racing
I could happily fall asleep to the sound of a donutting c63
So because someone is over the speed limit, they are not in control of their vehicle. Yeah ok 😂
I'm going to listen to the information in this video and I'm going to ignore it.
I just lost my license 3 days ago , street racing and running away from cops and getting stuck in a blocked street 😭😭
Haha you spazz serves you right , maybe think next before you decided to do something
Good graphics for the PS4
PS5
SPEED CAMERAS? COMICAL🙄🙄🙄They don’t capture dangerous or reckless driving! 😬😬😬 💀💀💀
I used to be involved in street racing. It has nothing to do with race tracks being expensive etc. Its all about the thrill of doing it on a public road. Having the police come after you is part of the thrill. There are no police at the race tracks. Also race tracks are controlled enviroments. People that street race dont like authority anyway. I know this because i used to be involved in it in another country. I still love the idea of it. But as i have grown older i dont feel the need to do it any longer
Nothing more fun than honing down the motorway at night
We love drift and street race you wont stop that
But Street Racing is a public event haha
Street racing=so much fun👍
Except a, the noise is super annoying and it's incredibly dangerous
I’ve come across them a number of times and yes they are very much in control of their cars ..
Big up boosted civics
Where do street racers get the idea they've a right to endanger others and create a noise nuisance while pursuing their hobby on public streets in the middle of the night or at any other time?
And then call people who criticize them Karens or entitled, they're the entitled ones
I went to search elite London racing because they’re videos look sickkkk but unfortunately it’s not there ffsss
Excellent
Theft and murder are on daily basis in London but no one care about that but on other hand there are some people having fun with there own money on there own risk. Haw dare they.
Not making excuses for recklessness but in the other hand: to all of the commenters saying “take it to the race track” or “can a afford a flash car but cant afford to take it to the track”... you need to realise that its not all about money at the end of the day... most track days have stupidly low noise limits that even STOCK/standard cars struggle to keep under and get black flagged/kicked of the track
I used to live in Enfield and there roads are decent for car enthusiast, now I’m in Islington and oh my every single road has monster speed bumps destroying my car, it’s impossible to have fun in a car here and it’s horrible even when your going 20mph the bumps still damaged your car there’s bumps every 2seconds you literally have to go 5mph over them, it’s an absolute joke
>spend 10k on modifying a car
>HURR DURR race tracks are TOO EXPENSIVE
pick one
Soon in the UK: Driving with passengers *Banned* and classed as illegal convoy
Let me just point a fact out here..
These passionate drivers who drive REAL cars such a modified tuned cars and done it all themselves. People who truly know whats under their bonnet.
Then theres people who finance and lease new plate cars which are automatic which any panzy could drive and they think they know about cars lol.
Please understand the difference.
The latter are 'mostly' Asians
Street racing in Britain is just kids borrowing their dads corsa with a huge exhaust.
similar things like this are happening in cali in fact because of street racing new exhaust laws have been put in place the main problem is that we have nowhere to go like there are like no race tracks in the uk and very little events such as cars and coffee if you create a places and events like in the usa street racing becomes
My whole famly and friends are all about street raceing and drag raceing lol
This happened 10 years ago in Birmingham
Well I still like cars that's my passion
I always say I don’t care when they do it on country roads late in the night but when they do it around houses it does annoy me
At night I can hear them racing up and down the A10, and I live a mile away!!
You haven't heard the last of us, don't worry 😉
Street breathing: inside the secretive world - BBC London
That dude in the e63 AMG tho
Lol I’ve been there too many times and I love it 🙏
Is there a full version of this?
when i get my first car im doing this
to the fed that tries to catch us, catch up
Nearly 2021 and enfield police made the biggest mistake of sending out 800 cars at once loose on the road causing havoc, we are not the issue
I live my life a quarter mile at a time
Yes racetracks are too expensive yet you bought a £3,000 car and spend £9,000+ on it xD
It’s not speed that kills it’s the sudden stop if it that kills
Drifting saved my life I slipped the rear tires on a round about in the rain on accident and lucky I knew how to drift or I would have crashed into the Ford dealership!
LOL why was this made to look like an episode of Crime Watch. Free the cylinders
As a Car enthusiasts Doing Street Racing is fun but kinda too dangerous for the public roads
Well what else do they expect people to go to have fun!? An abandoned airport, and these "Street Racers" have said themselves they're only doing this at times when its more quiet and less populated.
Adding cameras wont really do a thing if you put on tinted plates.
Give these guys a place to go. It can be anywhere they've got cars. Like hello any supermarket type of area will be fine they don't care if it is in the city or not.