Well you could class me as an old-school Aussie racer.

I started back in 1984 with a Marui Hunter, then followed many years of mainly off-road with some 1/12th with more different cars than you can imagine until I finally took a break in 2001 to settle down with family etc.

Returned properly in 2004 in Touring cars and have now just returned to my off-road roots - still struggling to remember how to do the jumps and bumps :rolleyes:

I am also a vintage collector which ensures than I'm constantly poor!!

My claim to fame is making 4 National A-Mains (in Oz the Nationals are a once-a-year event) and finishing in the top 3 on 3 occasions in my State championships.

Unfortunately I have rather less talent nowadays :( but at least I'm still having fun.

Started in 1992 with a Tamiya Terra Scorcher at South Shields model car club, with a Joel Magic Johnson stock motor and tamiya 1200s.
I then went to a Lazer ZXR mk2 and experienced my first ever modified motor – scary stuff at the time as I couldn’t get used to it just keeping accelerating, a CAT EC sport and XX4, (all raced on slippy school hall floors) at South Shields and Durham (Belmont).

I stopped racing in 1999 when I went to uni, returned to touring car racing with a Yokomo then an Axis 2 (which is still my favoured TC) in 2003 / 4.

Got back into buggy properly in 2005 (first proper regional series) with my B4 which was used for bashing before this. In 2006 I wanted to do 4WD and 2WD, and started with my old CAT EC and B4, then a Lazer ZX-5, then an X factory X-5, all in 2006. Got my F3 license, and went to the regional finals.

Just had my first regional of 2007 where I made my first A final in the NE regionals with my old B4. And after all my 4WDs in 2006, Im back to a CAT 2000 EC for 2007.

Not a lot of mention in here, Started racing in 1998 with a SST pro touring car raced that for a few years untill I got a spin in a buggy.

Mostly my racing has been on polished wooden floors with the occasional tarmac race with the touring cars. Starting this year to try my hand at racing my off-road buggy off-road (:o) looking forward to it.

started in 1986 with a mardave apache and progressed upto a tamiya hornet from there. have had a lot of years off at various points through but am enjoying a good comeback at the mo ;)

Modest as ever Niggs..........

double post

started in 1988 but original ran a tamiya rough rider in races while at school used to go to the club at wath on dearne.
packed up in 2000 bought a trials motor bike, after breaking a leg, then a coller bone decided was too old so bought an ic on road car, now gone full circle into off road.
did manage to get an F2 licence and if you look hard youll see my name in the archives on the regions site

I started in 1998 racing touring cars indoors with a tamiya TL-01. It didnt take long before I started to upgrade like mad with my saturday job and paper-round as my funding. I still race touring cars every so often but im taking a short break out to give this off road game a go. This is my first year racing the buggies and im loving every minute of it and im even giving the East of England reginals a bash :cool: