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!
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