Question of the week: How did you get into racing?

[Southwell]

Well?

[ginger fixit]

unforunatly i bought a savage monster truck and went to Max bashing

now i have to remorgage every year to buy new kits


my wife really hates that place LOL

[ben]

Erm a guy who used to live in my village did it and he asked me if i wanted to go and watch him at the local club and thats were it started from really. Then went to modelsport and got a chadori
How about you ian?

ben.

[CraigM2610]

I used to like the little crappy cars from toys'r'us and argos but they kept breaking. So for my bday i went to my local model shop and bought a tamiya on road car and my first ever Racer magazine i saw the Electric 1/10th off road class in the magazine and it started from there.

[mattym0310]

I got into it because the lil ben [i'll never forgive him ]. I liked the look of his car and he suggested for me to come watch. I liked the look of it and so bought a second hand b3... and things went on from there

[Lee]

I went to a local club i found in radio race car when i was 10, got a cougar 2 for my birthday and i have been hooked ever since. Although i did have a 12 year lapse whilst racing on road

[Southwell]

I was out with some mates on my bike and stumbled on HRC during a race day. Saw a Cat2000 for sale and annoyed my dad until he bought me it The first meeting i did i took out the 27turn motor and whacked in a 10x2 by round 2....o how things havent changed

[millzy]

H the old man was into R/C boats and got me a Tug boat and my brother a PT thing, we won the junior cardiff regatta a few times and got bored of it, found a kid in my class with a copy of RRCI , Sold the boat for a Tamya Blitza Beetle, then a Tamya stricker . met a lot of people down at C.O.B.R.A and got told to sell the tamya and get a rc10....you know the rest

[dave g]

i suppose its always been in my blood.

my dad was into rc boats back in the mid 70's and used to race at all the big competitions back then..they used to win washers and stuff like that back then!!!

always had the rc cars from when i was young,an enquiring mind and dads toolbox usually meant they didnt stay in 1 piece for long

got a sand scorcher when i was older in the early 80's but never saw anywhere to race so gave up,then saw a cat xls for sale in 87/88 and bought it on a whim.

someone mentioned that they had seen some cars racing at the hare and hounds pub near batley so went for a look..i was hooked!

joined batly buggy club immediatley and thats it..back then we had over 100 drivers turn up for a sunday club day..with people gettting turned away!

dave

[Nick Goodall]

Tamiya Madcap for my 11th Birthday, racing it out in the streets with some friends who lived round the corner, they had Nikko Dandy Dash's and raced up at Newbury indoors on Wednesday nights (I still remember they described it as an indoor stadium because it had seating and some wooden ramps lol (kids hey)) then i went up with the madcap, my Dad also came and suddenly realised the Tamiya gear was useless for racing so got me a 2nd hand Optima Mid custom special.... it just went on and on from there!

[peetbee]

I was bought a Tamiya Holiday Buggy for my birthday and then saw Newport Model club racing at a show, so went along and started to race there. Had a break for a couple of years then bought a Tamiya Boomerang and it all went from there........

[rcracer]

i started 4yrs ago after watching garry at shanes little club and just had to have ago , i had dabbled in nitro boats quite a few years before that.

[jim76]

a couple of friends of mine had tamiya cars, a hornet, lunchbox and boomerang etc.
I got one to go and bash around the parks with them.
Then a club started up in the town so i went down there and soon spent a load on a procat with all the trimmings. We also had a model shop open up in the town so the club thrived. Regularly had 12 heats or 6-7 cars, finishing after midnight on Sundays. People were pitting on stair cases as there just wasn't enough space! Unfortunately the shop went under and the club started to dwindle a bit after that. I left for Uni and gave up the hobby for nearly 10 years, until i returned in 2004.

[antnee]

I was thinking about getting one of those cheapy argos drift cars, when my brother said to look at nitro cars, well I stumbled across MSUK and eventually bought a TC3, in easter 06, soon bought a Xray T2, then my club decided to do off-road again so got a XXX-CR, now sold that and bought my new secret buggy

[VintageRacer]

A mate at school raced them and the local club (Kiddy) came to our school for a demonstration meet during our School Summer Fair. He had a Marui Hunter which he was selling to buy a Hotshot and I pestered my dad to buy me radio gear and I would get the car. As it turned out he bought me everything I needed to get started and my mates dad even installed all the radio gear for me. Not long after I sold the Hunter for an Optima and my mate swapped his Hotshot for an RC10.

Stuck with those for a while and gave up when we noticed girls and beer.

Last weekend I stripped down my Optima to renovate it, first time it's been touched with a screwdriver for about 18 years or more.

[darryl]

my dad always had rc planes and a mate of his brought a tamiya striker and a tamiya holiday buggy back from japan for him in the early 80's, so messed around with them (still have the striker ), wasn't until i moved to york from london that i finally got into it properly and found out there was a club in york, so at the age of 29 i bought a kyosho outrage and raced 540 class,im almost 41 and its a sport you never grow tired of

[emzy]

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!

[ashleyb4]

I had a cheap one from argos and it did loads and loads of miles then i wanted a new one then while sopping in sainsburys saw RACER magazine and i loved it fortunatly this was about a month before christmas and i was hooked so for christmas mum and dad bought me a tc4 team kit as it was the first car i saw in the book I finished the build on boxing day at about 11 oclock so i drove it up and down the livving rom then it burst into flames filling the house with the smell of burnt plastic. So raced it at wrexham club for about a year then sorta lost a little intrest my friend kev got into it and started going to ozwastree so one day i went down with him i then went to an open day there a few days later and i looked at my touring car and thought ppppfff rubbish and i bought my b4 then the love of my life came alone 12 months later (xx4we) now i hae my cr the other love of mylife.

A

[jimmy]

I got a Tamiya M03 mini and used to race it around at home and at work - then we got a couple more at work and had races on a lunchtime. I got a 2nd hand XXXBK1 off ebay from someone who'd raced at Tiverton a lot and decided that it was too nice to just play with, so I went to Batley and raced 1st september 2002 I think it was.

[Body Paint]

My Mum and Dad were racing nitro power boats before I was born, they were pretty good aswell, got a few mags from the early 70's which they are mentioned in. Mum was racing R/C offshore power boats whilst 9 months pregnant with me so I guess you could say R/C is pre-programmed into me.

I pretty much had a transmiter shoved at me as soon as I could get my hands round it and got my very own Tamiya Holiday Buggy in '81 or '82 and the rest is history