[cornishboy176]

What a brilliant read this has been so far,

I started off RC racing when i was 10 years old with a Mardave Mini Stock that my Dad bought at our local club at Leedstown Village Hall in Cornwall,then swopped my BMX for a Tamiya Falcon,tried racing that indoors but found it too brittle on parts (especially after my mechanical speedo decided it wanted to go flat out into the wall and smash the front end off completely!!),my parents then bought me an MRC MRX for Christmas,i raced that at our local outdoor track in Hayle for a season what a nightmare car that was!!,I then got my hands on a Kyosho Ultima which was the car to have then,after another season of running the Ultima i bought a second hand Schumacher Topcat with a Tekin 410s for £75 from RSW in St Austell no sooner i got it the Cougar came out and we bought the cougar front end,that was one brilliant car,had some good results with that car,then i had a second hand RC10 for Christmas,and started going to the regional series in Cornwall (SWORDS),i had 2 seasons with the RC10 after upgrading it to the current spec FT at the time,The Losi XX was the new kid on the block then and i managed to get my hands on one and also Sponsorship from Kevin Waite at RSW in Plymouth with his PLAZMA batteries and also Corally for Motors,i started getting into the top 5 at regional level and then......passed my Test and found Cars,Beer and Women!!!!

All the RC gear was packed away and left after spending Saturday nights on the p**s and duly lost interest in the buggies for a few years and then 3 seasons ago a mate of mine phoned up out of the blue and i got hooked again and i havent looked back since,apart from throwing my toys out the pram with the Cougar SV and selling it all,i have recently bought a 210 but then sold it after a Centro come up,

I cant believe how much had evolved from my early years of buggy racing,back then you would have your gearing exact so the batteries would just last 5 minutes or so,no practice laps before the race,running more weight than you can shake a stick at!!,back then we used to cut the chassis tub down on an RC10 to get rid of weight,now we are piling brass into it!!

All in all i am enjoying my racing but our only problem is,apart from our 1 local track the next one is a 220 mile round trip to Tiverton every 2 weeks just a shame we are that far down from everything here in Cornwall