RESIDENTS have told how their town is plagued by millionaires who zoom along their roads in supercars.
Locals in Wilmslow, Cheshire say their area is being used as a “racetrack” for the wealthy – and fines don’t work because they have so much money.
It is a hotspot for supercar spotters, with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bugattis around every corner.
But those who live in the area have had enough of the “idiotic” drivers.
Debra Brown, whose home back on to the A34, told Manchester Evening News: "People seem to travel from all over the North West to race their cars.
"It's terrible. It's the noise at night that is most annoying. We will be sitting in our lounge and you can hear the noise.
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"You can see why they are attracted to it. It's a massive stretch of road with no traffic calming measures. You have teenagers standing on the roundabout. It's dangerous and they are putting their lives at risk."
Meanwhile her neighbour Michael Neal, 81, who has lived on Ashford road for nearly 50 years, say the problem only began in the last few years.
He said: "It's like a race track every Saturday and Sunday.
"Some weeks they come from all over the country. It's like a jamboree. They have the exhaust modified to make as much noise as possible.
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"Drivers have lost control and there have been a couple of near misses on that roundabout. Some of the neighbours have even threatened to put their house up for sale because of the noise.
Mr Neal says that the culprits are not teenagers – but “wealthy businessmen in their 30s, 40s and 50s”.
He explained: It's a waste of time fining them. One thousand pound or five thousand, it's nothing to these people. They're multi-millionaires.”
Another local, Marc Cottey, says the racing cars are an "accident waiting to happen".
He said: "You can hear them racing each other and going sideways round the roundabout.
"You get these kids watching, spurring them on. It will not take much to go off the roundabout.
"It's a busy junction but you don't notice the normal day to day traffic, it's just these idiots on a weekend.
“You can hear that they are not doing the speed limit. If you're driving like that it should be on a racetrack, not a public road. Hopefully the cameras will make an impact on the noise levels."
It comes as the local council are introducing noise traffic cameras as a trial.
The camera technology is designed to catch drivers who rev their engines or have an illegal exhaust system fitted to their car.
They can judge how loud the exhaust is and read a car's number plate at the same time.
Cheshire East Council and Cheshire's Police and Crime Commissioner John Dwyer said: "Although initially launched on a trial basis, it is hoped that the scheme could eventually be made permanent.
"The issue will be whether the people doing this will realise it's only a temporary thing and go somewhere else," said one Wilmslow resident, who asked not to be named.
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"It certainly would help because it's become more frequent and more noisy. Recently we had the worst episode. It went on for a long period and there seemed to be a significant number of cars doing it.
"It was in the evening and all we could hear was the rumbling of cars revving and whizzing up and down the bypass. It was like explosion after explosion. You get the feeling that the cars are modified to make as much noise as possible."
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