Madeira Drive hasn't changed that much then. Still a race track. When we were teenagers in the early 60s on a Saturday night we would all congregate at the bottom of North Street outside the electricity show rooms with our cars, I was a passenger with my then buddy Bob Coe. There would be a race up the A23 to a roundabout in Crawley and then back to Brighton. The first and most scary bit was "windy corner" just past Pyecombe which was to be done at the magic 100mph if your car and your bottle was up to it. On return back to Brighton and usually after midnight there were the races along Madeira Drive. In the winter it was handbrake turns on the black ice which bent a few track rods. Good old days, glad to see the tradition is still going.

I hate people who use the term 'boy racers'.  I am a member of a club and we do big events all over the UK showing our cars.  We meet weekly down Madeira for every one to catch up. Not everyone raggs there cars about as most have spent far too much money on their cars to abuse them. You get the odd idiot who thinks he's clever in his chavved up Fiesta and usually the police are about and do stop the idiots.  So please think before you tarnish us all with the same brush.  I am a careful lady driver who drives a modified show car, not a boy racer who raggs it about Brighton.  If we were stopped from meeting down in Brighton, then I think you'll have a lot of people driving about the city and that's more of an issue if you ask me.