Gears and Tears BBC1 Monday night 10.30pm

[MGGSE]

The BBC rarely commision programmes about grassroots motorsport so please support this one about the wonderful world of F1 stock car racing by watching it, or downloading on the iplayer.

It focuses on the rivalry between the Wainmans and the Smiths, a Lancashire Yorkshire stock car based re-enactment of The War of the Roses. The cars are amazing 750bhp V8s with welded shut diffs so they have to go sideways. They overtake by pushing the other bloke (or girl) out of the way. It ius quite simply the most exciting motorsport in the UK. The programme was filmed using a lot of car mounted minicams which really brings the racing to life as you can hear the clash of metal on metal.

The link below is to a trailer for the show. It will be on at 10.30PM on Monday night on BBC1.

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[MGGSE]

More Gears and tears Pics -well worth looking at

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[Nitro Head UK]

I myself am a stock car fan, ORC 2ltr salloons and F2's rather than F1's but the show is great and does the sport justice. The production is brilliant . Roll on next monday .

[mrchrisdavies]

A short clip taken from next weeks episode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQi_gS5i0M

[tozey]

Good skills...will def watch!