I started out with a Hornet, I had watched lots of buggies on tv (blue peter etc) and got old of a copy of RRC. I remember spending a holiday at butlins pouring over the magazine.
My parents bought me a Hornet for my birthday (10th maybe) and I built it with my dad over a few nights. I just used it at the park etc for about a year before my mum rang the hare and hounds about the track in their garden. They had just swapped to the inside season so I turned up with my hornet at batley sports centre with my new "fast" charger with a timer.
I only had orange crystals but that was ok as I was first to book in! I was given my little orange flag and off I went to race. After one race, race control banned my car as I had a metal bumper!!. Not a good start but I can see that my driving and a sheet of steel would worry most marshalls. So the second round was done with out a bumper. I qualified in the J final (it went to K so I was pleased!) I then went on to win the J final and get a trophy at my first event. I actually won because my speed control jammed on the middle speed for the entire race and so I never went fast enough to crash!! A lesson in there somewhere!
I then went on to an optima which ended up with a belt conversion and then on to a optima mid CS before I ended my days with a Procat that I still have.
It wasn't women :-( that ended my racing but being put off by the money I needed to spend on cells and motors to remain competitive after the classes changed that ended it for me. I just wish it was the women!!
Anyway, not raced again since the early 90s, but recently got a madrat to "bash?" with the kids and may look at taking them racing if they get a feel for it.
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