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Boy racers offered speed thrills without risking young driver car insurance

Lad's magazine Nuts is offering boy racers everywhere the chance to drive like maniacs without risking arrest or their cheap car insurance premiums.

They're relaunching Formula Nuts (http://www.formulanuts.com), billed as "a nationwide hunt for Britain's fastest driver".

Entrants are invited to prove themselves in two heats of go -karting, held at tracks around the country, which will whittle down thousands of entrants to just ten. These ten will go on to race sports saloon cars at the Three Sisters Circuit in Wigan.

And the grand prize for the winner? More racing, of course; this time a place on the starting grid at Silverstone, in the prestigious Clio Cup.

The race, due to take place in mid-October, will be watched by 35,000 spectators. Asked what it felt like on the grid at a Clio Cup meet, Nick Keynes, who competed in 2001, said "It was the single most scary, exciting, adrenaline-flowing moment of my life.

"The Clios are proper racing cars. They are fast, exciting to drive and the racing is awesome."

If the competition winner gets a taste for the suped-up racing Clio, he'll have a lot of saving up to do. The car alone is expensive enough, but the young driver car insurance he'll need will cost thousands.