10 years to the day!

[jimmy]

Today - 1st Sept 2012 is 10 years to the day I raced for the first time. Before that, this website was dedicated to vintage rc buggies, with lots of old manuals and general madness like that.

My first race was Sunday 1st September 2002 at Batley. I'd bought a 2nd hand Losi XXX Kinwald car off ebay for a laugh and it came with a mountain of spares - too good to just dick about with so I decided to try have a go at racing.

I bought a nice servo, an LRP esc and I think an LRP 14x2 motor - and used green schumacher mini spikes. I ended up about halfway up the order - mid C final i think - in my first race. Right alongside my good chum John Price who's still right next to me results wise when we race - well, when I've had some practice anyway.

Here's me in August 2002 I think - just chucking my Losi around the track to see what it was all about.



I guess this was 2003 - I got my first 4WD, the Losi XXX - but I could dump my cells in 2 minutes with my agressive driving which is why I prefer a one way in all my cars as it forces me to calm down.

Soon after starting racing I got a touring car also since my chum John was racing them at the time as well - and they were far more popular than the buggies. This is a £100 Yokomo MR4TC Custom - a bendy plastic car with more grip than anything else ever.