Boy Racers are terrorising Britain’s towns with supercars bought on cheap credit

Boy racers are terrorising cities throughout Britain from behind the wheels of high-powered supercars purchased on low-cost credit score.

Secretive teams compete in on-line leagues the place they problem rivals to drive on busy roads at huge speeds, based on a brand new Channel 4 documentary.

Surprising footage exhibits three vehicles weaving between site visitors as they’re openly raced alongside a stretch of motorway at as much as 170mph – in scenes harking back to The Quick and the Livid movies starring Vin Diesel.

The joyrider gangs – who posed menacingly with their automobiles sporting balaclavas – meet on a weekly foundation to participate in adrenaline-fuelled races which can be broadcast dwell to tens of 1000’s of viewers on the web.

One of many largest teams, Mpire, has greater than 70,000 followers and its social media pages exhibits dozens of individuals gathering in cities throughout the UK to race vehicles value a whole lot of 1000’s of kilos.

Boy racers are terrorising cities throughout Britain from behind the wheels of high-powered supercars purchased on low-cost credit score

Surprising footage exhibits three vehicles weaving between site visitors as they’re openly raced alongside a stretch of motorway at as much as 170mph 

The group’s founder, named solely as Min, tells the programme: ‘Porsches, Lamborghinis, Ferraris – we went from being boy racers to having a number of the most costly and quickest vehicles on the planet.’

Requested how the drivers, principally males of their early 20s, can afford such luxurious automobiles, he replies: ‘Vehicles have gotten an increasing number of inexpensive… finance is obtainable to kind of anyone.’

The documentary, The Secret World Of Boy Racers: UNTOLD, finds that the police are attempting to crack down on younger males inflicting havoc on Britain’s roads – with the variety of vehicles seized attributable to anti-social driving virtually doubling between 2019 and 2022. However the boy racers brag that police are unable to catch them of their high-powered vehicles.

In a single clip, a gaggle is stopped by officers on London’s Bond Road however merely drives to a different location, rushing off every time the police meet up with them. When questioned by an officer, one of many drivers replies openly, ‘I am not obstructing nobody’ earlier than fleeing once more at top-speed.

One of many racers claims he has been banned from driving after he was caught at 140mph on the M6 and has 21 factors on his licence – regardless of solely passing his check three years in the past. He boasts: ‘I could not give a s*** concerning the police, that is the God’s trustworthy fact, I could not give a f***.’

One other of the racers – who brags that he ‘turns the general public freeway right into a racetrack’ – provides: ‘I am not anxious, I’ve received north of 700 horsepower on faucet. No one is catching me.’

The documentary comes as a driver who killed a mom when his £180,000 Vary Rover SVR ended up on rail tracks was jailed for seven-and-a-half years final week.

Rida Kazem, who was ‘exhibiting off’, was travelling at 110mph on the westbound A40 in Ealing, west London, earlier than he hit a kerb and the automobile went off the street. Beautician Yagmur Ozden, 33 – one in all his passengers – was killed immediately.

However the boy racers admit to giving little thought to the security or consolation of the general public of their relentless pursuit of velocity. Footage exhibits a household and a terrified pet canine captured within the mild of a lounge window as automobile exhausts growth outdoors their residence ‘just like the invasion of a rustic’.

Secretive teams compete in on-line leagues the place they problem rivals to drive on busy roads at huge speeds, based on a brand new Channel 4 documentary [File image]

The documentary comes as a driver who killed a mom when his £180,000 Vary Rover SVR ended up on rail tracks was jailed for seven-and-a-half years final week [File image]

Greg Sumner, 32, a self-confessed former boy racer who was left paralysed in a crash that killed two folks, stated: ‘Individuals do not contemplate the extreme impression of it going improper till it is too late.’

The daddy-of-two was a passenger in a automobile that went uncontrolled on a bend at 91mph in a 40mph zone and ploughed into an oncoming automobile. Each drivers died.

Mr Sumner, who shattered 27 bones and spent 5 months in a coma, says: ‘The results of that crash have been the deaths of two fathers, 4 kids are going to develop up with out their dad.’

However different drivers are obstinate within the face of the dangers of their unlawful and highly-dangerous pastime. Robert was one in all 19 folks significantly injured at a automobile meet crash which noticed two males jailed for a complete of 9 years.

The 28-year-old admits the incident has left him with lasting ache that generally prevents him from getting off the bed. However the automobile fanatic, who has owned 60 automobiles previously two years, vows to hold on racing regardless of the accident and stated that he would not fear concerning the dangers as a result of he’s ‘in management’.

The programme’s presenter, Ben Zand, says: ‘Up to now few months I’ve spoken to cops who’ve admitted stopping boy racers is troublesome.

‘They have an inclination to depend on issuing social orders and seizing vehicles to attempt to deter folks from moving into the scene.

‘But it surely would not appear to be laying aside the boy racers we spoke to.

‘So many I might met appeared to really feel invincible. However the issue is, as I might seen myself, they are not.’

The Nationwide Police Chiefs’ Council stated: ‘Tackling rushing and harmful driving is a precedence for policing.

‘Behind each collision there are household and mates who must dwell with the tragic penalties for the remainder of their lives.’

The Secret World Of Boy Racers: UNTOLD is obtainable to stream on Channel 4 from Monday.