Did some Racing in the 80's at Stockton Buggy Club.
My first car was a Tamiya Striker but by the time i raced at the club i had a Tamiya Super Sabre.. Then quit after a very short period when parents wouldn't give me no funding. Starting back racing again in 2002 i think.

You should try it from my side... My mother and my work call me Nick, everyone else calls me Col. Somethimes I think that I'm schtzo, skit, sch... twin personality!

Started racing at Bury Metro in 1997 with a Tamiya Grasshopper, which led to an original RC10 with the nitted bath tub chassis.
Quit outdoor when the rostrum got burnt down,and went to touring cars.
Started offroad again in 2001-2003 then called it a day due to lack of funds.
now im back for the 2007 season with new car and new equipment :)

this season will be my first...been bashing a few years....

my first go though was at batley buggy club in 86 or 87..my brother used to race a little and i helped him out a bit..i was into bmx racing.

racing ah yess
 

i started driving rc cars in 1978 i was three my dad bought a tamiya cant remember what it was started serious racing with a rough rider an 540 mabuchi motor serious shiz in them days about 1983 im only 31 now so i suppose ive been messing wiv these things for 28 years;) and im still crap at it

I started in 2000 what a year.............

Started way back in June 1979, in the days when you had to get a Model Control licence from the Home Office (cost £2.80 for a 5 year licence) to legally use your radio control equipment.
Remember 3 speed mechanical speed controllers that had wire resistors that glowed like an electric fire when you hit the throttle, ball diffs hadn't been invented and all bodies were ABS plastic that split so easily.
I'll stop now otherwise I'll get all melancholy and dewy-eyed!

I think I started racing late 2003-early 2004 with a Traxxas bandit, and an old time dial based charger. Started racing competitivly late 2005, but my best results were from the 2006 racing season down here (Australia).

Wow, youre youger than me lol I thought you were 18 lol

I started in 2002 In december. Or was it 2003 errr, one of the two.

Lol

Started racing May 2004,

1/12th oval on carpet. Raced a full National Season last year and came 4th Overall.

Started racing my Yokomo Bx Jan this year and have had 2 club meetings to date.

Strange learning to turn left and not completing a lap in approx 3-4 secs

Throughly enjoying the new challenge.

well i started playing with cars when i was about 4 and started racing in about 1987ish at the cov track when it was at Ryton, also raced at Bedworth, GEC and Alcester when they used to race at Ragley hall. Raced until 1997ish when i stopped to concentrate on athletics then made a return back into the sport at the end of 2003 and wished i hadn't stopped as now i seam to be struggleing to get back to where i used to be but guess thats due to the fact that there doesn't seam to be as many club meetings about now so most of my racing seams to be at regionals during the summer.

I started racing back in 1984 lol if u can call it racing back then
matthew started in September 2001
I'm just a pit man now

I am gonna pit for vicky this year as she is doing all the 2WD nationals (if she gets in), I only have my name down for a couple I think

Why aren't you racing Jimmy-man?

Are you doing 4wd?

I started racing in february 1994. Just after my 7th birthday. I raced at Marston Model Car Club at their indoor venue- Pendeford High School in Wolverhampton. I began with a Schumacher Club 10 (like a cougar 2 but more basic) and after a few months got into 4wd full time with a CAT 2000. Back then, Rob (Bert Digler on here) was my hero, he was rapid, one of the kings of the club meets. :-D

Took a big step forward in 1997 when I made my 1st mid-west regional A final aged 10 at the Telford Hot Trax venue, won the under 13 title, and about a season later got my 1st sponsor in CML... and things have just continued... still love it now, dad still gets stressed and I've made a lot of good friends from the sport. If you've just started you're in for a lot of fun and good times!!

Yardy

I started in 1990 with a Tamiya Kingcab I got for my 8th birthday. I still remember my first bod moment, first corner on the first lap of my first race - straight on at the end of the straight into the wall trying to keep up with everyone else (line starts in qually back then), snapped chassis :p

I started in 1986 with a Tamiya Falcon. Was one of the first 12 members of Shrewsbury South Radio Controlled Car Club (SSRCCC). Moved onto a Hotshot II and then a Super dog fighter. Went 2WD with a Schumacher Top Cat (pile of poo) and then gave up due to lack of funds and because i wanted to fill my Fiesta with Kenwood ICE.

Started again three years ago with a 2nd hand B3/Tekin Radio/old Batteries and Ranger Radio gear (just to see if I liked it again). Could not race at Shrewsbury because the track it is now a housing estate so went to Oswestry offering Jeff Stanton some RC2400 cells as a bribe. 5 months later I had my B4, 3300 cells, Ko radio and Quantum II ESC and was made Club Secretary. I also run the club website and have started Stormforce racing to sell cells in between racing and real work. You could say i am hooked again :)

N

didnt realise you had been racing for nearly 17 years mate!! Ya old timer!!! hehe!!

Is that so you can sit on the track more and take 47 million pics instead on the normal 10 million?

Vikcy's pit bitch.

im from bloxwich in walsall originally so back in the day 1978 a dog license covered u for everything fishing drivin a car radio licence tv licence 10 bob if i remember arrgh wot days:cool:

first proper rc car was a holiday buggy,
first car raced was a tamiya f.a.v.(fast attack vehicle)
started racing in 84,with above,
had a bit off a break and started back in 2002ish i think,

trekkker

First Rc Car was a Tamiya Boomerang about 18 years ago. Then got a Kyosho Optima Mid. Raced at Local events around the west Mids. Parents decided to emigrate to OZ when i was 16. Took all my RC kit there . Saved up and bought a Pro cat. Had it for only four days. Some thieving scumbag stole it along with some household stuff from our house. Only raced it once.
Couldn't afford to buy a another one. Decided to give up. Returned back to the UK after 12 months.
Got hooked on rallying due to me brother who has co#driven for some of the UK'S top National Rally Drivers and he has worked for some of the Works teams and i have been to many test sessions and been fortunate to be a passenger and sit next to some factory supported works rally drivers in very expensive and top notch rally cars. Lost interest at the moment with rallying and it's ruling body. Spoiling the sport and turning it into F1.
Big fan of Colin Mcrae
3 years ago got the bug to return to RC Racing and looking forward to racing in 07.

I raced a Schumacher Cougar Well back at Leigh LUT club and then Fred Longworth high school. I stopped racing but, then started again (without my dad) Christmas @ Bury Metro 2006.

cheers pipe thank god my skills encouraged someone ;) and unlike me you have succeeded good on ya a smashing bloke and family p.s if u need any tuition dont come to me cus u way past my skills cheers mate;)

started racing origianally around 1988 ish with my local club being leicester, started with a tamiya hornet, then went on to a mardave metor fairly soon after , then went onto a schumacher top cat & cougar before finishing with the bath tub rc10's runing in the midlands rounds and rrc series and even entered th British Pairs championship race held in Leicester( chris d may remember that one ??) and then stopped racing around 1992 just to come back again sept 2006 so lookin forward to this season..

Thought I would join in!

Started messing about with a Tamiya Sandscorcher and Sandrover at about the age of 10 back in 83, we used to go to a school blackheath way and race, I started to race properly about 85 at Dudley with a Boomerang and then doing the Mid Champs with an Optima Mid Turbo, and then with persuasion from Mr Willetts I ran a Cat XLS, Parma Wide Chassis cat, then Pro Cat until I took a long break at the age of 17 and didn't race again till 25ish.
Never really done much results wise, had a few regional A's and A at the F3's just enjoy the racing and friends :)

started April 1993 with Cleveland Buggy Club (now TRCC) @ Thornaby Football Ground

Yokomo Works 91 with Speedmaster Silverstar esc, Fabix 1700 batteries, Demon 19T modified. Stick tranny till about July 93, then went to Steerwheel which I've been on ever since.

Raced
10th off-road 2 & 4wd = 4wd Veterans Champ 05 :)
2wd Veterans Vice Champ 06 :(

12th Circuit = 2003/4 F3 champion in 1st season :(
TRCC summer Champion 2005 (I think):)

also use a RC10T4 & 18T @ club for fun

I started racing back in 1992, i was 10.

i started with a cougar 2 and within 2 years i qualified for the junior regional finals. Mr Cragg won!!

The next year i went on road and have done so up until last october, during this time i have never won a national meeting:( i have been second a few times though:D

Schumacher took me to germany for the LRP TCM a few years ago.

Now i have the off road bug again and im enjoying my racing again and learning how to drive in 3D.

haha, my dad made me one, when I came to buy a proper car carrier, we tried to give it away, nobody asked for it lol.

It was qaulity, even had a built in fan and draw for tools.

My claim to fame is 7th in the A Final (stock) at the British Carpet Grand Prix.

(There was only one stock final :D, and I came last, but i was 4th for most of the race till my FT TC4 broke) :D

My other claim to fame is the veloc2, its awesome.

Although it may get a new name and a shortning by 4cm lol

Lee, what's your surname? Was it the Juniour finals at leicester in 1994 you're talking about when it absolutely chucked it down or the year after at Donisthorpe with the Track on the banking?

Surname is Farrer.

And yeah it was the leicester one, i think mr doughty won the under 16`s section as well in 2wd.
I have never seen so much mud, it was unreal:D

Hi mate,

Aha yes i was at that one too (also born in 82) - that was my first "National" event but i only did 4wd at the time.

Richard (Tricky) Taylor actually won both U13 events (2&4wd) and Chris won certainly one of the U16's. I finished 2nd to Tricky in U13 4wd.

What a small world :D

Sorry i didnt mean to steal trickys thunder:D

It was my first national too, i think i ended up in the c overall which i was quite happy with.

In a way i wish i never went to TC as i have learned since coming back to off road that it is so much harder than on road.

Aged 15 in 1986 with a Tamiya Hornet at the very beginning of FORCC.
Moved onto a Kyosho Optima with my first paypacket when I left school at 16.
Since then I've had Cat XLS, ProCat, Lazer ZXR, MX4, Losi XX4, MR4BC, XXX, B4 and now it's a Kyosho ZX5 with KMC conversion.

In that time I've also raced Pro 10, Mardave Mini's and Marauder's, and now I also compete in Mardave Banger Racing at the Basildon club.

Oh - and I've dabbled at full size banger racing too :)

First raced in 1989 at Lawford Buggy Club (still going!). We raced Tamiya 'Quick Drives' which were RTR style 1:12th scale off road buggys. Totally naff, BUT it got me and quite a few others hooked. Had a few breaks since to chase women, etc. but enjoying my racing as much as ever. At Lawford Buggy Club there are a good 6 - 10 drivers still racing who started back with me in 1989, not bad eh?

I could get very nostalgic but will save you the rambling prose..

well i started just before jan 2007 attending one supercup at bately where i cam 2nd to last (to vicky :D ) but i first got into rc cars at about 7 when my gran bought me a storm buggy from argos. that was really fast at my age :rolleyes: but was probably equivalent to a mouse. literally! i drove that into the local reservoir.....my mum put over the radiator but it never fixed......:(

Doughtys like 30 times more ancient than I ever thought ! :o I was a whole year old in 1989 :p

i started when i was 9 wih a tamiya astute............. so 1999? lol

Hmmm.
1988 Bassetlaw Buggy Club round the back of The Three Legged Stool Pub in Worksop.

Finished 3rd in the C with a Tamiya Falcon....
Beating Sue Allcroft on the last lap....

I still have the Keyring Trophy on my car keys...