Famous people who have raced R/C !!!!
 

Does anyone know of famous faces who have donned the Transmitter ???

I know we have the Hamilton brothers....

I once raced at Northampton Model Car Club in the 90's, this little guy who was around 3ft 10 and by the name of Warwick Davis was in my heat running a Shu Cat. As a youngster who enjoyed watching my movies i recognised him straight away....
He was the guy out of Willow, Star Wars and some other films. He was pretty good as well.

Anyone else had any experiences ????

Neil Cragg :thumbsup:

what a good question mate!

Pedro de la Rosa, spanish F1 driver, was one of the very best rallycross drivers of the 80's. He almost won the first ever WC in 86.

Didn't Peter Solberg race 10th off road back in the late 80's?

I crashed into neil cragg in open practise at a kiddy winter series a few years back.

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Ben Sturnam is the obvious one, ex top 10 national racer and now top notch Rugby player.

Rob Hallam used to be a good club/regional guy in the NW, worked at Bury model Shop and run the club a little when it was a shop club and not a town club (used to be called Bury Model Shop Buggy Club), and he went on to present Men and Motors.

Ben Sturnam ex top 10 at in the world you mean Chris ;)

Im pretty sure that Rubens Barrichello raced RC cars at some stage.

ben sturnham is a rugby coach now i belive and played high end rugby for a few years, used to race for shumacher and tanaplan and should of had a worlds podium once ;)

william mitcham now races caterhams with his father, won a national championship with t tech and had a pred named after him

paul whitaker was a top speedway rider and shortlisted to represent his country a few years back but injury forced him out had a national a final or 2 from memory running shumacher cars,

nick damon, used to race regionally and nationally in offroad and 12th many many years ago, now presents on motors tv promoting the rc world

dare say there are loads more as well, they are just 4 off the top of my head

yes the Solberg brothers are old RC racers
apparently there's a club with new tracks opened in their home town last year :)

i'll see if i can find a link

link to some outdoor track build pics

http://www.spydebergmotorklubb.no/Fremdrift%20ute.htm

browsing the site it also shows somebody called Solberg as the club chairman
(well i think thats what it says, ny Norwegian is limited)

Scott Smart BSB rider does a bit of 12th racing.

I was famous on local radio when I was a kid, but now I race RC, does that count?:lol::lol::lol::lol:

james thompson used to race rc too i believe.

fabritzio giovanardi BTCC driver, races them in italy, although i have seem him drive them, if you can call it racing!

jeez, that's brings it all back from Capel Niggs!! He was quick, but i never realised he was national A final quick. Drove his RS turbo like a loony though!!

pretty sure he made it when they had a national at elm court and maybe a older epr one as well. went down to capel the other week, did make me smile as old faces like ozzie, mark and his dad were still there, almost made me feel old :blush:

rc but not cars drivers
 

i know liam and ron haslam both fly rc helicopter both famous bike riders

Sort of, yes! :D He won the Tamiya Cup 1987:

http://www.ymr.no/historie.htm

(scroll down to 1987, click on image for video!!!)

If you look at 1983 and 1984 you can see pics of PDLR too!

Not an RC car racer but Ayrton Senna was a keen RC aero modeller.

He'd of been a god of course had he raced an RC car...

Ben Sturnham also took R/C into pro Rugby by using an RC car to take the kick holder thing to the kicker!!!

Vernon Kay raced a couple of times at the maxbashing track a few years ago. A Savage owner if I remember correctly.

Frank Biela - touring car ace and Le Mans winner- raced 1/8th on road, and i think still does.

its britney bitch :)

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...acing-1024.jpg

Quality..... no bra included, sorry i mean batteries!!! anyway

Not quite Spenner, that was us at DMS!!

An old friend of mine (Stuart - who is the "S" in DMS) is the match day stadium manager at Vicarage Road for Saracens. Shortly after Ben Sturnham joined them we sorted them out a Tamiya Bush Devil (which had a H2 facelift two years ago to coincide with the local Hummer/Landrover dealer sponsoring Saries) which was modded to carry the kicking tee out to the kicker.
It was only once Ben saw it that he and Stuart started talking and they learnt of Ben's past in R/C racing. Only problem was that in Rugby (apparently - Rugby fans please confirm) you only get so long to kick the ball after the kick is awarded and opposition players were resorting to all sorts of dirty tricks to prevent the tee from "arriving" to the kicker safely including treading on the truck, getting in its way and once it even got booted half way across the pitch.
The truck spent more time at the shop being fixed than it ever spent on the playing field, Ben actually had to drop it in a couple of times on his way home from matchdays or training and eventually the team manger called an end to its use.....

The truck I am told now sits in a cupboard at Watford FC (Vicarage Road) gathering dust.....

Well there you go.... the full story!!!!

I never knew that part.....

I seem to recall hearing the Simonite sisters (WRC..) did a bit of RC too... can anyone confirm this?

Man... that pic of Britney is quality... it is now my screensaver!!!!

gnarly you beat me to it,
i know the guy that taught ayrton senna to fly rc helicopters,


trekkker

Tony Stewart of NASCAR fame owns Cutom Works, a small R/C firm that makes dirt oval cars in the US.

I think I read that Alex Zanardi has a few cars that he plays with as well.

Not sure if they race proper but Johnny Herbert was a guest at a Tamiya Eurocup finals at the TEMAC track in Essex, he drove a Tamiya Benetton. WLRC also had a Touring Car meeting with a few BTCC drivers doing a guest race, I can remember Tim Harvey, Tiff Needel and ? Pinkney being there, can't remember who else.

Shy..that link is Mega! (with a little BabelFish action:lol:)

:thumbsup:

Thx a lot! I've been writing on that shit since 1997... :lol: Some thousands of hours put in there :lol:

Is there babelfish for norwegian???

Alex Mortimer
 

Alex Mortimer Team RPM GT3 Driver

Races 1/8th rallycross and truggys mainly at Coventry !

Pitted next to him the other week ! Cool Lad !

i was on live tv snatching at old hairpin at donington couple of years ago

i race rc does that count:D

How about Nicolas Vuilloz,MTB Downhill WC and IRC and French Rally champion.I just checked and I raced him and beat him at the 2005 worlds:
71 Maignien Carl
72 Missel Ralf
73 Vuilloz Nicolas
74 Primmer Mathew
75 Aoyagi Yuuichi
76 Borghese William
77 Kura Yavuz .

Same on 2006 Euros in vienna:
D. Final (4wd) 1 Finished 16:28 P C Driver Result 1 1 Ketil Pettersen 12/ 307.85 2 10 Ralf Missel + 16.64 3 5 Nicolas Vouilloz + 20.77 4 6 Thomas Siller + 20.52 5 2 Paul Robinson + 24.60 6 8 Erik Muff + 24.73 7 9 Peter Siller -1/ 309.05 8 7 Nathan Ralls -3/ 269.55 9 4 Daniel Greenwood -6/ 171.10 10 3 Harald Brunner -9/ 88.32

Cruise.

Hehehe well I suppose Neil Cragg and Ellis stafford are superstars as they did appear on a TV show once, when being interviewed about who would win the title. It was rather amusing.

But if it had to be a racer it would have to be Masami H.

I know Top gear had that presenter who used to be the in the time trial up hill racing and did a thing on 1/5th scale. Cant remember who was driving though.

Alex Mortimer - 2007 British GT Champion is a R/c racer, mainly rallycross also does the odd bit of electric here and there.

Not sure if mentioned above but didn't Scott Speed (British Superbikes) use to race at Teeside?

I think you mean Scott Smart!

He is now living back "darn Sarf" but still RC racing and flying when he gets time...

I think you'll find Scott Speed was an american racing driver who started out in Karts then went on to drive most racing formulas!:p