Lowe, Martin and Truman win at Petit 2009
 

The weekend of 17-18th January 2009 saw the third running of the 10th Electric off road 'Petit' race - the Petit Europe Tour. Organised by our friends at PetitRC.com, the Petit came to the UK for the first time - held at the excellent Maritime Raceway in Gillingham.


Lee Martin took top honours in 2WD buggy whilst Richard Lowe took the Truck class. Tony Truman took his HotBodies D4 to TQ and Win in the 4WD class.
Check out the full report HERE

Great report Jimmy as always. :wub:wub

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ace report


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Great Report Jimmy (Le Chat) :D

Yes this is a great report!!!!! The best and only report from down south in the last 12 months!!!!;):p

Thanks guys - I've not done a 'gallery' for the last couple of indoor (worksop) meetings but I will do one for this when I get chance as there are some good photos.
Oui Freud - I wanted to win Le Chat! :bored:

Yeh deffo's cool report, now i wish id of gone :cry:

hi jimmy. is it possible to get any contact to Manolis?

Manolis said he'd email me when he gets back - but I think he's also on the forum? not sure. If I hear from him I will tell him to get in touch with you unless he reads this first of course.

Jimmy, can he have his own section please? :eh?:

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He was a realy nice guy, i met him on sunday......shame his 4wd car never ran

He's Bonkers! Shame he couldn't run.. he was powered by HKP power :p

Thank you very much. :)

That would be great :D

Manolis = Legend.

Is Rich looking for sky-rats in the roof beams?

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/petit2009/OOP_6125.jpg

And is the Trophy-Girl going asleep?

I was going for the old Farrer pose :eh?:

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/2008n...s/OOP_5439.jpg

Maybe they're trying to talk to each other telepathically :lol:

Does Danneth - as the gentleman racer of toy cars - always look happy, I think it's awesome. :D

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Not the most flattering picture ever taken! :woot::woot::woot:

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Good write up and cracking photo's Jimmy. My brother won the CAT, he's happier than a dog with two d*cks :woot:

I pitted beside him at the Euros in Italy.

It was an experience. But he is a genuine guy that wants to build and design rc cars. (He does have a really good engineering knowledge/skill.)

MiCk B. :-)

Yeah - that car's really ugly :wtf:

haha, lucky lad! I was hoping for that one :woot: saw him over talking to Robin and the guys, looked real excited with his new toy.

I had the pleasure of his company next to me on Sunday. He came in with bags of stuff and created a materpeice with a dremmel tool!:woot:

9 hours of solid work, he didn't stop all day. His work area resembled your dads garden shed work bench. S**t everywhere:lol: Brilliant!

I didn't know you looked at me in that way G :o

Dan is always happy, apart from when im dremeling beside him :o

Hi Everybody,

Congratulations Jimmy, your report and all pictures are beautiful as usual!
Great to meet you and Vicky.

Great to meet all drivers...

I've got email of Manollis if needed as I read - (contact me by email webmaster[at]petitrc.com

Rich: so funny your head on the podium :D :D :D - So happy for you for your 1st great victory. And if you came last year..... :D

Thanks Nicholas, it was a great meeting and I hope it's even more popular next year and thanks to all the sponsors on the awesome prizes - I was really impressed with the quantity of awesome gear on offer.

Talking of which Jimmy, does anyone know the name of the young man who won our X6 that we put in, Chazz wants to put the name up on the website alongside young Daniel Newman who won the X60 that we put up for grabs....

William Johnson. He races at Faversham car club.

Each year I worked hard to get this quantity of awesome gifts to offer to drivers.
At the 1st and 2nd edition were same quantity (no, sorry! More quantity of gifts).

My only deception is that UK distributors seemed not concerned by my PETIT RC RACE (no reply of my emails from them) (excepted Team Xtreme (thank you again for the X11) and DMS with Select Models Shop + Xfactory in latest days before the race).
Never mind.... you enjoyed the hard work and I also enjoyed to meet you all. That was the most important for me and Maritime club.

Thank you again for coming and your kindly words about my PETIT RC RACE. As usual I will do my best for the next edition with Maritime Raceway club.

Thank you.

Yes that was me :woot: Will Johnson, i just need to get a b4 to convert now :cry:

One thing I can agree with is Manolis skills, putting his ideas into reality are second to none.

He takes in what you say and makes the items you need out of a block of alloy, and is ridiculously accurate with his machining skills. I have had lots of stuff made from other people and sorry to say it but they are not as good as what Manolis can do. He is an artist with metal (as well as his very gifted girlfriend).

HKP and Jimmy can vouch for that as they saw what he made for my car.

pics?

Thank you very much! Appreciated...


yes I have but let me the time to add them on Petit rc - I already add +420 pictures in our gallery and I will add tomorrow more!

Remind you the PRC gallery: (classed by theme)
http://www.petitrc.com/gallery/browseimages.php?c=107

Hello to everyone there.Big thank you to Nicolas,James,Jimmy,Dave and all other people without who our weekend would have been much more difficult.Big thank you also to all people who showed interest in our cars.I am waiting for Jimmy-the Boss to reply with directions on where in this website we could add concentrated info-news on them.Have some news from the Bologna Indoor race we took part in yesterday-with Italian team manager and friend Alfonso.

My e-mail is [email protected] for all those willing to contact with info,who wish to have conversion kits like ours for their 4wd,2wd or truck cars ,have custom parts made,discuss future projects etc.It was great meeting you all

Manolis

LOL, it was a little embarrasing to be honest. Blondie asked me if I'd been doing this (racing) long, I just replied too long, what else can you say??? :lol:

http://www.petitrc.com/gallery/showi...p?i=5604&c=119

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Is Jimmy gurning?! :eh?:

I think he's going 'where the hell is the switch' It's on the other side! :p

Here they are. The pics dont do any justice. The top section is a one piece, the two lower sides are separate alloy sections.

The pivot block is also a work of art.

Manolis designed it better as the original design is a five piece gearbox on the front, so decided to make the two top sides and top as one item. He also reinforced the lower sections by beefying them up. Well thought over.