Meaning of banger race | Babel Free

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A motorsport event in which cars race around a track while trying to damage one another.

UK

Examples

“Trouble began when he moved in permanently after having building work done and set up a banger race track.”

“He made his neighbours' lives a misery earlier this year by staging late-night banger races on the three-acre field where he held the bonfire.”

“Fed up with Formula One? Rebecca Feiner recommends an evening at the Banger races”

“A much-dented Ford Fiesta with broken windows serves as a reminder of the row with neighbours and council officials earlier this year over Carroll's habit of inviting friends round for late-night banger races on a three-acre field he bought at the rear of the house.”

“This DVD is a showcase for several of those - including banger races featuring everything from caravans to Austin FX4 taxis via Ford Transits and Reliant Robins.”

“The couple sought action after Mr Robinson's son and his friends allegedly staged banger races in old cars on the land surrounding their own smallholding.”

“Relations apparently became frosty after Hurst complained about Robinson's son's banger races in a nearby field and the family was served with a noise abatement order.”

“But reasonable assumptions count for nothing in the world of Ian Brown: he just ploughs through it, with the reckless abandon of a man piloting a battered Datsun in a banger race.”

“This is not the late Sixties or early Seventies, but 2011 at Arlington Stadium, near Hailsham, in East Sussex, where perhaps more than 100 classic Westminsters will be ground into scrap metal before the night is over in the most controversial banger race to be staged in England.”

“I started going to banger races at the age of three with my dad, uncle and cousin. They're all race bangers and that is how I got into it.”

“The contrite duo managed to fix The Overtaker enough to take part in the final event: a no-holds-barred banger race against pro driver Sabine Schmitz.”

“The craziest, most extraordinary banger race on the planet: 10,000+ miles from Prague to Siberia.”

“There it was pulling out of the repair shed after the mother of all MOTs when a 50-ton juggernaut ploughed straight through the side of it, a smash-up that would grace the most savage of banger races.”

“"She gave me pointers on how to drive a Ferrari very fast and hunted me down in a banger race," the current presenter Paddy McGuinness noted on Twitter.”

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