A family of stock-car racers from Silsden is featuring in a six-part BBC documentary.

The Wainmans, who have been competing in the sport for more than 40 years, will appear in “Gears and Tears”.

The first episode of the programme is due to be screened on Monday.

The documentary, which was filmed between March and November last year, will portray the family’s rivalry with the Smiths – a family of stock-car racers from Rochdale.

Frankie Wainman senior and Stuart Smith senior began racing each other during the 1970s, as they battled week after week for the sport’s top honours.

Since then, both men have retired from active racing but their sons, Frankie jnr and Danny Wainman and Andy and Stuart Smith, have stepped in to the driver’s seat to replace them.

Alison Wainman, the wife of Frankie senior, said: “The documentary should break the ice for people who don’t know anything about stock cars and show that it’s not about racing old bangers.”

Mrs Wainman said her family had raced all over England and also in the Netherlands and New Zealand.

Her husband called time on his own racing career in 2007.

A spokesman for the BBC said: “Gears and Tears celebrates values that are often forgotten in contemporary Britain.

“The country’s heavy industry and manufacturing may have all but disappeared, but here are people who can build cars with their bare hands and who drive them with astonishing skill and courage.

“It’s a world where amateurism, enthusiasm, improvisation – and a handy knack for home-grown engineering – are still king.”

The documentary airs on BBC1 at 10.35pm.