This morning, when we made our way to Carnforth, I had no idea what was gonna happen. We made it to the track in Warton (just outside Carnforth) by noon, and just in time for one of the races. Sitting and standing on old and dirty tyres, we watched the first lot of cars racing around, with some of them finishing early by either crashing into the walls or breaking down. There were two Mini races on as well, which, of course, were slightly slower than the other races, but nontheless fun to watch. If you decide to be a spectator at a race like this, though, you do need to like the smells of petrol, carbonmonoxide and burning rubber - not necessary in that order though.

Highlight of the day, however, was the last race before the interval: Their annual campervan banger race! Basically, what they do is, they take banger cars and each has to pull at least one campervan. One today even towed two vans... needless to point out he had some troubles in the corners and was the first to get smashed. The whole point of it is to be the last one still making laps around the track. In whatever shape or form (even if it's just the wheels left) the campervan still needs to be attached to the car! The reason this race was on just before the interval, is because it takes a little longer to clean up the mess. And what a mess it was! Only two cars were still going by the time this race was over! Funnily enough, one of them was the car towing the yellow camper in the picture below.

In the end, it started raining so we decided to leave. After all, the whole event was held on a farm somewhere. But the atmosphere was great and I promise you'll laugh yourself silly when you see the object of hatred for every Autobahn motorist getting destroyed... It makes all those hours trailing one of those white whales on the motorway worth it, I can guarantee it.