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

[spenner]

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

[Scouser]

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

[Oxygen]

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

[dave g]

its britney bitch

[spenner]

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

[Darren Boyle]

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

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.....

[spenner]

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

I never knew that part.....

[emtee]

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!!!!

[trekkerkk]

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


trekkker

[StuartC]

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.

[MotoRev]

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

[SHY]

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

Is there babelfish for norwegian???

[bondy]

Alex Mortimer Team RPM GT3 Driver

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

Pitted next to him the other week ! Cool Lad !

[rcmadd]

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

i race rc does that count

[Cruise]

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.

[Welshy40]

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.

[eb4_boy]

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

[super__dan]

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

[MattADH]

Originally Posted by super__dan

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...

[jordi15]

Originally Posted by super__dan

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

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!