Question of the week: How did you get into racing?
 

Well?

unforunatly i bought a savage monster truck and went to Max bashing

now i have to remorgage every year to buy new kits :woot:


my wife really hates that place LOL:thumbsup:

Erm a guy who used to live in my village did it and he asked me if i wanted to go and watch him at the local club and thats were it started from really. Then went to modelsport and got a chadori :eh?:
How about you ian?

ben.

I used to like the little crappy cars from toys'r'us and argos but they kept breaking. So for my bday i went to my local model shop and bought a tamiya on road car and my first ever Racer magazine :D i saw the Electric 1/10th off road class in the magazine and it started from there. :thumbsup:

I got into it because the lil ben [i'll never forgive him :cry::lol:]. I liked the look of his car and he suggested for me to come watch. I liked the look of it and so bought a second hand b3... and things went on from there :)

I went to a local club i found in radio race car when i was 10, got a cougar 2 for my birthday and i have been hooked ever since. Although i did have a 12 year lapse whilst racing on road :lol:

I was out with some mates on my bike and stumbled on HRC during a race day. Saw a Cat2000 for sale and annoyed my dad until he bought me it :D The first meeting i did i took out the 27turn motor and whacked in a 10x2 by round 2....o how things havent changed :lol:

H the old man was into R/C boats and got me a Tug boat and my brother a PT thing, we won the junior cardiff regatta a few times and got bored of it, found a kid in my class with a copy of RRCI , Sold the boat for a Tamya Blitza Beetle, then a Tamya stricker . met a lot of people down at C.O.B.R.A and got told to sell the tamya and get a rc10....you know the rest

i suppose its always been in my blood.

my dad was into rc boats back in the mid 70's and used to race at all the big competitions back then..they used to win washers and stuff like that back then!!!

always had the rc cars from when i was young,an enquiring mind and dads toolbox usually meant they didnt stay in 1 piece for long :)

got a sand scorcher when i was older in the early 80's but never saw anywhere to race so gave up,then saw a cat xls for sale in 87/88 and bought it on a whim.

someone mentioned that they had seen some cars racing at the hare and hounds pub near batley so went for a look..i was hooked!

joined batly buggy club immediatley and thats it..back then we had over 100 drivers turn up for a sunday club day..with people gettting turned away!

dave

Tamiya Madcap for my 11th Birthday, racing it out in the streets with some friends who lived round the corner, they had Nikko Dandy Dash's and raced up at Newbury indoors on Wednesday nights (I still remember they described it as an indoor stadium because it had seating and some wooden ramps lol (kids hey)) then i went up with the madcap, my Dad also came and suddenly realised the Tamiya gear was useless for racing so got me a 2nd hand Optima Mid custom special.... it just went on and on from there!

I was bought a Tamiya Holiday Buggy for my birthday and then saw Newport Model club racing at a show, so went along and started to race there. Had a break for a couple of years then bought a Tamiya Boomerang and it all went from there........

i started 4yrs ago after watching garry at shanes little club and just had to have ago :lol:, i had dabbled in nitro boats quite a few years before that.

a couple of friends of mine had tamiya cars, a hornet, lunchbox and boomerang etc.
I got one to go and bash around the parks with them.
Then a club started up in the town so i went down there and soon spent a load on a procat with all the trimmings. We also had a model shop open up in the town so the club thrived. Regularly had 12 heats or 6-7 cars, finishing after midnight on Sundays. People were pitting on stair cases as there just wasn't enough space! Unfortunately the shop went under and the club started to dwindle a bit after that. I left for Uni and gave up the hobby for nearly 10 years, until i returned in 2004.

I was thinking about getting one of those cheapy argos drift cars, when my brother said to look at nitro cars, well I stumbled across MSUK and eventually bought a TC3, in easter 06, soon bought a Xray T2, then my club decided to do off-road again so got a XXX-CR, now sold that and bought my new secret buggy :D

A mate at school raced them and the local club (Kiddy) came to our school for a demonstration meet during our School Summer Fair. He had a Marui Hunter which he was selling to buy a Hotshot and I pestered my dad to buy me radio gear and I would get the car. As it turned out he bought me everything I needed to get started and my mates dad even installed all the radio gear for me. Not long after I sold the Hunter for an Optima and my mate swapped his Hotshot for an RC10.

Stuck with those for a while and gave up when we noticed girls and beer.

Last weekend I stripped down my Optima to renovate it, first time it's been touched with a screwdriver for about 18 years or more.

my dad always had rc planes and a mate of his brought a tamiya striker and a tamiya holiday buggy back from japan for him in the early 80's, so messed around with them (still have the striker :D), wasn't until i moved to york from london that i finally got into it properly and found out there was a club in york, so at the age of 29 i bought a kyosho outrage and raced 540 class,im almost 41 and its a sport you never grow tired of :thumbsup:

I got a crappy little RadioShack car from Tandy for Christmas one year from my Gran because I'd always been jealous of brother's one and I was a little tomboy... then after a little while my Dad wanted something too, so we could mess about together so he bought a Tamiya Madcap (the first time he switched it on, the night we got it, it wasn't trimmed and I ran it straight into a kitchen cabinet and smashed the front... and burst into tears!).

Somehow he found out about a club on a Friday night at the school I used to swim at and we went to take a look... I soon bought a BossCat off the guy who ran the club's son... then Dad decided he wanted to play so he got dragged into it too... and it went from there!

I got a Tamiya touring car the next year or the year after for Christmas and built it myself... and we took that down to Teesside (there used to be a Standard Tamiya class with 6 or 7 heats a night) and that was awesome...

My first regional was outdoors at Batley and from there... regionals, Nationals, the Euros in 2005... I love it!

And even though I'm away in Chile this year, Dad's still racing... he's racing more now then when I was around!

I had a cheap one from argos and it did loads and loads of miles then i wanted a new one then while sopping in sainsburys saw RACER magazine and i loved it fortunatly this was about a month before christmas and i was hooked so for christmas mum and dad bought me a tc4 team kit as it was the first car i saw in the book :p I finished the build on boxing day at about 11 oclock so i drove it up and down the livving rom then it burst into flames filling the house with the smell of burnt plastic. So raced it at wrexham club for about a year then sorta lost a little intrest my friend kev got into it and started going to ozwastree so one day i went down with him i then went to an open day there a few days later and i looked at my touring car and thought ppppfff rubbish and i bought my b4 :p then the love of my life came alone 12 months later (xx4we) :p now i hae my cr the other love of mylife.

A:D:woot:

I got a Tamiya M03 mini and used to race it around at home and at work - then we got a couple more at work and had races on a lunchtime. I got a 2nd hand XXXBK1 off ebay from someone who'd raced at Tiverton a lot and decided that it was too nice to just play with, so I went to Batley and raced 1st september 2002 I think it was.

My Mum and Dad were racing nitro power boats before I was born, they were pretty good aswell, got a few mags from the early 70's which they are mentioned in. Mum was racing R/C offshore power boats whilst 9 months pregnant with me so I guess you could say R/C is pre-programmed into me.

I pretty much had a transmiter shoved at me as soon as I could get my hands round it and got my very own Tamiya Holiday Buggy in '81 or '82 and the rest is history:thumbsup:

I'm actually something of a success story for the kids into engineering schemes i guess, I found out about remote control racing from the formula schools scheme (should come up on google for those interested i think) and soon after got a tamiya nitro car, tried racing it on road and soon found out that it was a hell of a lot slower than everything else :woot:

Then my dad found out his workmate raced rallycross, I found a cheap hyper 7 and got into that, found out that racing was much more than buying a kit and turning up, so that got too expensive quite quickly (soon as the cast hubs wore out and needed a £50 replacement actually :eh?:)

Then recently just before uni I looked at some cheaper options for racing, wanted to get back into rallycross but the thought of an engine blowing or a major crash halfway through a student budget didn't appeal so I moved to electric, and 10th off road :thumbsup: Although after spending out everything I did on chargers etc I could have bought a spare engine and half a car i think :p

I got a nitro truck in 2003, played with it a bit, got a leccy TC 6 months later which got no use, got a nitro TC in june 2006 which got a bit more use. in Feb 2007 i got an old second hand 2wd buggy, tried it at a practice night at teesside on a wednesday, got a B4 on the following monday, it just went from there.

christ, I had a few cheap Tandy cars when I was a kid.... never really went anywhere with it though....

Started college in 1988 and we had a project of building an RC Car, now one guy on the course was really BIG into RC Cars, done big meets and all sorts, the lab technician was into it too, we built the cars, we raced em up on the roof of the college, and then got offered a Kyosho Rocky as a RTR from me mate... and went from there...

Took a break from racing at the end of the 1997 outdoor season (the last race was on the day Princess Diana died), got back into it in 2004, found off-road was dead round her, TC was king, bought a B4 after driving Millzy's and some TC's, not looked back since.

got a tamiya holiday buggy in 1983 from a model shop in dewsbury,then started racing in 1984 with a modified[beefed up]version.look at me now-23 stone,looks to die for and still cant drive for toffee.jez.

The local club of the time held an open night and advertised it to spectators. I went a long having had an interest in RC for ages playing about with cheap nikko cars etc. Fell in love straight away and bought myself a mardave for messing about outside, had great fun with that so I eventually decided I wanted to try racing. Bought a tamiya touring car and raced it at the local club went through a few different cars till i got a Losi XX then fell in love with buggys.

The club closed due to lack of members untill 2004 when I got contacted by a guy who was thinking of starting up a club and wanted some help running it. I got together with a few of the other guys who used to race and since we all prefered buggys we decided to make it a buggy club from the outset.

I used to walk past a model shop in Pretoria where the owner had video's of buggies on a beach racing around. I drove my old man mad until one random day he showed up with a Tamiya Hornet. I was only 7 but I built it all myself and got it running in 2 days after school. A few friends in my street got Tamiya's too (Frog, Wild Willy and a couple of others) and so we built a track in a field at the end of our road and started the 'Tamiya racers club'. This was all while I was about 8yrs old. We had no way of counting laps and each only had one battery so 'racing' was a very loose description of what we did :lol: We basically just tried to see who could do the most laps with the batteries we had and then had to go to the guy that lived closest to recharge from his mom's car. She would feed us and we'd be off again. Not sure when or where the Hornet ended up.

When I was 17 I had a brief stint again and swapped a BMX for 2 reasonable buggies but only messed around and it didn't last long as a young man of that age has different priorities :wub

Then when I moved to the UK a mate got me started on touring cars at Tolworth which lasted about 2 years but rain and outdoor electric racing wasn't exactly fun so I quit that.

2 years ago got a ZX-5 and found a few clubs (EPR is closest) but I soon got sucked into the Micro scene so my 10th racing has been sporadic at best. I've attended a few 10th meetings here and there and will do a lot more this year but I race 18th scale buggies twice a week indoors and love it. I did the 2007-2008 BRCA Micro nationals and will dothem again this year. Loving it! :thumbsup:

In Australia, local Tamiya distributer used to advertise in full-size motoring magazines. I stumbled across an add for a Wild Willy, and promptly wrote to Tamiya for info about the car (1983...pre-email :lol:).

They sent me a whole catalogue and a list of local tracks - went down to one and I was hooked!

Never got a Wild Willy though - ended up with a Marui Hunter and started racing in 84.