Auto crash racing is undeniably an acquired taste: professionally organised special-interest events in divisions called SERIENNAH [near-series] and CRASH SPEZIAL, with racing teams and vast fan communities that are game for anything – fine examples of a subcultural motor-sport genrethat makes do without huge financialmeans, but has plenty of heart and passion. For this colourful photo book Josef Perndl attended various races in Austria between 2017 and 2019 and dedicated his vivid photo book ”to this peculiar circus of dirt and noise and rock’n’roll which I maybe ought to think should be banned”. (Wolf Haas).

Josef Perndl, *1965 in Steyr, Austria . Lives and works in Vienna.