A team of Bingley friends are set for the road trip of a lifetime when they compete in a “genuinely dangerous” 10,000-mile challenge in a £500 ‘banger’.

Team Break For The Border – Daryl Foster, Marc Beecroft, Chris Sowter, and Tom Storer – will join competitors in the four-week Mongolian Rally.

Known as the “greatest adventure in the world”, it begins in Goodwood, West Sussex, and ends after an “extremely risky” voyage to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia.

The route passes through Germany, Austria, the Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, sweeping through the foothills of the Altai mountains and across a desert before reaching Ulan Bator.

Its organisers, The Adventurists, warn the chances of death are “very high” and claim teams have been seriously injured in the past.

A warning on its website states: “These adventures are not a glorified holiday. They are an adventure and so by their very nature extremely risky.”

Despite the warnings, the Bingley team is hoping to complete the 10,000-mile journey in a nine-year-old, 993cc Suzuki Swift.

Daryl, 22, of Southlands Grove, Bingley, said: “It is probably worth about £500 and is having some work done on it at the moment.

“Hopefully it will be ready to go and get us all there in one piece.”

The team are close to reaching their fundraising target of £1,000, the majority of which will go towards the Christina Noble Foundation, which helps Mongolian street children and poverty-stricken families.

The rest of the money raised will be given to charities in Bradford district.

Marc Beecroft, 22, of East Morton, said: “I would say we are excited. We are definitely a little bit nervous but looking forward to getting going.”