Masami and his Cars / Trophies

[Tom3012]

Originally Posted by vinny20

what can i say hes a true legend only racer 2 have won more ifmar worlds than any other racer in rc

wont there only ever be one person to have won more than anyone else? unless two or more people win the same amount

what an awesome collection though!!! wonder how much all of thats worth

[Welshy40]

Originally Posted by JohnM

What do you think Masami thinks of Micheal Schumacher's 7 titals, just a nice start?

I met him at the 93 Worlds at Basildon, very polite even though I caught him coming out of the toilet, scribbled all over the copy of RRC or whatever mag I had at the time, still have it somewhere

Hahahahahahahahahaha poor bloke, just after being in those awful toilets hehehehe, well I have to admit it as well he is a very nice individual and I cant think of anyone (ok take it back Brian Kinwald is the same, and what a noce bloke) who promotes this hobby as well. A great ambassador for the sport.

He came over at the worlds warm ups with a bag of tires and asked what I was using (it was raining heavily and I guess he hadnt raced in the rain before as I lapped him a couple of times each round in four warm up races, (and David Belsten beat him as well and convincingly), but no contest considering we were used to racing in the rain almost every weekend, so had the advantage.

Craig Harris was a bit rude to him (Harris was pitting with me and what a laugh it was with him, Dave Belsten, Jon Leonard and Jon Tucker and the rest of the motley crew from Wales) but still he came over after he finally found out what tires we were using and gave me and Harris (I think him as well) some bits and pieces from Yokomo and Associated as a thank you.

A very approachable bloke.

Didnt like being lapped in the rain by me an Belsten but as we all know he is the master and can learn very very quickly and be up there and past you before you knew it. He did that the next day and blew every one away.

He was quicker by the end of the warm ups and laughed when he realised he would have won it if he had gone over the finishing line.

[telboy]

Did he have to jump into the middle?

[xx4-nutter]

looks like Footey minus some of the trophys :P lol

[paulc]

[nobby]

Originally Posted by ashleyb4

doubt he spends much at all maybe he buys some sandwiches as he has been one of the top driver for the last what 20, 30 years???? he proberly is given about the same ammount of kit we get per year in a month

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i raced at the world champs in 98 south shields and raced for associated at the time & found my self pitting with masami & the rest of the team for three weeks.
the event was supported by nissan so they wanted to use him for interveiws & the likes and nothing was to much what a fantastic bloke.

as for his sandwiches he had his own food sent over and i had to collect it.
it was some disgusting looking pots of sea food

as for racing kit dave spashett had in excess of 25 thousand pounds of kit sent up for three weeks racing which turned up in two transit vans

[telboy]

wasn't there loads of stuff nicked from outside the halls?

My best memeory of watching that event was Mr Lander superglueing his eye! not the best thing to do.

[nobby]

yeh chris grainger turned up and all his kit was nicked from the back of his fiesta.

lander superglueing his eyes shut was brill
he did one & we asked him how he did it so he showed us and did it to the other eye sitting in the office laughing to my self now thinking about it.

[rcluke]

Nice bunch of trophies

i dont like his taste in paint color though