“Misfortune happens every day,” warns a local police officer from Borox, in the Toledo region, La Sagra. He and his companions have been trying for weeks, with several Civil Guard patrols, to prevent illegal races from taking place in the industrial zone of this town of around 4,000 inhabitants.
As in the United States, illegal racing in Spain was popularized by the “Fast & Furious” film saga. And in the Jesús Menchero García de Borox industrial zone, hundreds of people and vehicles are summoned to participate and “bet money”, according to the sources consulted. They returned last Friday and Saturday, but this cinematic and dangerous scenario This has been happening for over a year, even if it doesn’t happen every weekend.. They are young people between twenty and thirty years old, especially those who tend to spend the night from Saturday to Sunday mainly, and they can stay almost six hours, as happened on the second weekend of this month of November .
The Avenida de los Oficios, very long and downhill, becomes a race track. Vehicles burn tires and line up waiting for their turn. Careless and reckless drivers operate their high beams to warn people not to cross the road. A person with a handkerchief starts and two cars of the same or similar engine capacity compete at full throttle.. They go from roundabout to roundabout, passengers leaning out of the windows filming, while other drivers warm up by skidding nearby. The majority are passenger cars, although vans can be seen racing around. “Imagine that a car punctures and wobbles…”, gives an example of a witness.
They come from all over Castile-La Mancha and the Community of Madrid. The Civil Guard and the local police of Borox know this thanks to the complaints they have already filed this year. As “things got out of control”, on Saturday, November 16, the mayor called the Civil Guard when the gathering was detected and a dozen patrols arrived from different localities in the province. With a deployment of around thirty agents, it was possible to cut off all access to the industrial zone at dawn. “The people then fled like rats”describes the witness to ABC, who hopes that these illegal races will be repeated in December.
