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DJ breaks the record and a rib as he wins rollover

Wayne Drury, who has won his sixth British Ramp Rollover Champion title
Wayne Drury, who has won his sixth British Ramp Rollover Champion title

An adrenaline junkie has won his sixth British title in a sport that regularly leaves him with broken limbs.

DJ Wayne Drury, who presents breakfast and drive time shows for Sheppey FM, competes in banger ramp rollover events.

He has to drive as fast as possible round a track, over a ramp and roll his car as many times as possible.

On January 6, Wayne, 31, won the title of British Ramp Rollover Champion for the sixth year in a row, which is a record.

He was competing in Wimbledon, London, in a Fiat Punto and ended up with a broken rib and bruising all over.

But in the eight years he has been racing competitively that’s not the worst injury he’s had – he once dislocated his shoulder and hip.

He says it can be quite an expensive hobby because the cars often only last for a couple of races.

In a competition later this year he will be driving a rare Ford Transit ambulance.

The dad-of-five first got into the sport as a youngster as his mum Lesley Glover, of Chapel Street, Minster, used to take part in women’s banger racing.

His first race was when he was about eight and he says he has never looked back.

The cars are fitted with roll cages and have had the glass and interiors ripped out. There is only a driver’s seat and a special petrol tank fitted to the cage and the doors are tied shut.

With his most recent triumph, Mr Drury, of Cowper Road, Murston, says he only rolled the car about two and a half times which put him in second place but he got a phone call a few days later to say the winner had been disqualified.

The title means he gets the roof of his next car painted gold.

Mr Drury said: “It is crazy, but I do it for fun. At the championships I was getting ready to get out and was upside down but then it dug in and went over again.

"It takes a lot of bottle and you really have to put your foot down hard. There is a technique but that’s my secret.”

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