Why Do People Become 'Boy Racers'?

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It's just not cool...

Every night in towns and cities across the UK they come out of the night like rabid bats from a luminous paint soaked cave. Their low octave hum causes china plates to fall from dusty dressers as old people pull their curtains closed and clamber under their beds. Like excitable birds they strut out into the main drag of their towns, colours flashing and perform the same slow straight line dance they have done many times before.

Boy racers are a strange breed who spend literally hundreds of pounds on their beaten up hatchbacks and parade past pavements, zoom through red lights and waste gallons of petrol for a fairly obscure set of reasons.

Attention

The main overriding reason for becoming a boy (or girl) racer is to get attention. For boys especially, driving a car makes them feel 'manly' and powerful, but when everyone else has a car too they lose that feeling. To give them an advantage in the attention stakes over their peers, many boys become what we call 'boy racers' by modifying their cars with big exhausts, performance car parts and body kits. With their modified cars created they then want to prove that they are powerful individuals or skillful at driving their car. This is why you see these boys revving their engines, spinning their tyres and generally speeding a lot of the time. While they do indeed succeed in getting the attention they crave by doing this, it may not always be the positive kind of attention they think it is.

Love of Cars

In fairness, there is another good reason why lots of boys do what they do with their cars. Driving and car ownership is lots of fun and is a common hobby for many boys, which may naturally lead many to try and improve their cars. If your car and its engine is your passion then there are countless sources to buy new brakes, new wheels, new performance car parts of different kinds and of course body kits and big loud exhausts. It's not necessarily that these boys don't enjoy the attention their car gets, but when they approach car modification from the perspective of a car enthusiast as opposed to an attention seeker, they perhaps deserve less of the stigma that is often attached to 'boy racers' that you see every day.

Whatever the reason boys become 'boy racers' their time on the roads may be limited as petrol prices may get high enough in the next few years that no one will be able to take to the road at all.

Sam Qam is a boy racer. He has spent thousands of pounds on his small car fitting it with performance car parts so that when he hits the streets at night, all the girls turn to watch him drive past.

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