Funniest racing experiences

[Lee]

A few years ago we were camping at ashby (on road) one fella was called vernon jones he was a nutter. Because of the rain during the week we were asked to move our cars to the harder ground 50 m away. We all happily did it but vernon pretended not to hear the announcement, when the race director came over to ask him to move his car he pretended again to be deaf, eventually he acknowledged the race director and told him he was deaf (he put the voice on and pulled a face and pointed to his ears for effect) when the director had asked him slowly and clearly vernon got into his car held the revs at about 6000rpm and lifted the clutch, covering the race director, tents, caravans, everything with mud.

We were pissing ourselves but he had to keep the act up all week end, untill he handed in the transponder after his final on the sunday and just said

"cheers mate"

I think if the director had not been behind the desk he would of smacked him

[super__dan]

I never got to see this but James Instone (Welshy something on here now) famously in Wales got chucked in a lake. I think they said for making an A final, but secretly just wanted to chuck him in the lake

[mole2k]

Another superglue induced tale of woe here!

One season near the start of the TC boom in the late 90's we were running TC's outside with foams, on of the guys in the club decided he wanted to fit some new tyres as they didnt come premounted in those days he had to glue them on. The only glue he had was the super thin cyno, he run the glue around the rim and attached the tyre, unknown to him the glue ran down the tyre and glued all 4 wheels solid to the desk. he went to lift the car up to go race and the table came up with him, in the end he cut the tyres off the desk and had to revert back to the older foams as the new ones had monsterous flatspots

[terry.sc]

Reminds me of Chris Hardistys car at the Hereford 1/12th nationals. Took him long enough to find it.

[Nick Goodall]

Originally Posted by _sleigh_

Perhaps it's about time I admitted to this now after so many years.

Many years back.. went to a national @ Holbeach and in the middle of the night we decided to "modify" Nick Goodall's pitting tent by removing a few poles and changing it's location.

Remember waking up the following morning to the raised voices of "family" Goodall going ballistic about it.

Sorry Nick, it was funny at the time.


Seem to remember the same trick being played on the Bowaters at a Tiverton National. There was poles everywhere. Infact it seemed to happen to the Bowaters quite regularly.

Ahhhh i remember that!! Think my Dad was annoyed as he'd somehow been convinced to part with £800 for that weird marquee / Tent thing which was supposed to only take 5 mins to put up and down I guess he wasn't too happy at the thought of someone tampering with his new toy

I think my sister was going out with RichM at the time which might have made it an even more appealing target to you

[Lee Martin]

dad hit the nail on the head here.....

jonny, remeber when we were at Bury st edmonds when it was called off....

you dad was packing you stuff into Bone's mums new car.......

cleaning everything, keeping it nice inside and that 4x4 went out and spun the wheels, cakin the inside of your tent, yourself and bones mums new car completing in mud!!

classic!!!

[spenner]

Yer, that was Russell Woodhouse who was driving the other car!!!
My dad went mad, you could see the mud heading towards the car.

It was good when he had to explain that to bones parents!!

[Chris Doughty]

the break between the 4WD and 2WD event at florida worlds, Me, Cree, Tricky and Rennick went to the beach and got some Jet Ski's

we were all hooning around jumping the wakes of boats and the US coast gaurd hard a word with us 'not to go near the other boats'...

Tricky didn't listen...

we were also racing towards a buey, 4 in a line, gradually getting closer and closer to each other, I backed out early, I think Rennick did too, who would have guessed Cree and Trick still full bore, head down, arse up going for the win

jet Ski;s are ace!

[Lee]

I remember a few years ago at a national at tibshelf Craig D and a few others went out on the lash, colin brennan went along so we let down his tent, it turns out he never came back and had tried to stay in dreschers hotel room, the answer was no and craig made him sleep in his car

Another time we pulled out all the tent pegs while a fellow racer was out on the pull the lad did well and came back with some bird, we all thought nothing more until the wind picked up and we realised that the lazy sod hadn`t fitted the bedroom compartment to the inside of his tent, the tent flipped over leaving this lads arse going like a bee`s wing on full display to the rest of the campers, he just laughed but the girl was far from impressed

[Lee Martin]

hahahahahahahaha

[k£v!n]

I remember following this car around that I thought was my car, but actually my car had drove off the track, with the marshal was running after it. Because I thought this other car was mine I was still controlling my car without realising the car I was following wasn’t mine! Hope this makes sense

[mole2k]

Originally Posted by k£v!n

I remember following this car around that I thought was my car, but actually my car had drove off the track, with the marshal was running after it. Because I thought this other car was mine I was still controlling my car without realising the car I was following wasn’t mine! Hope this makes sense

haha I think we've all done that.

At my local club a few years ago one of the members sold his usual body to another person so he could revert back to his previous colour sceme. First race after the body swap he tried to drive the wrong car

[rcracer]

Originally Posted by mole2k

At my local club a few years ago one of the members sold his usual body to another person

jeese i wouldnt want to race at your club

[Cruise]

To everyone who missed Neils Jump i can provide some Fotos.
The first shows Craig Drescher shooting the car up the roof the second is the remains of the car. The pic of the jump itself is too bad to be posted,

Cruise

[Alfonzo]

If you look carefully you can see it's broken

[ashleyb4]

Kevin getting super glue in his eye. lol i laughed so much when he told me.

Also at kiddy regional afterwards i was running my 4wd around and sleigh had a go and i had the steering in reverse so when he turned left it went right and vise versa the worst bit was when he shouted it out infront of everyone. I almost died.

A

[Kopite]

Originally Posted by k£v!n

I remember following this car around that I thought was my car, but actually my car had drove off the track, with the marshal was running after it. Because I thought this other car was mine I was still controlling my car without realising the car I was following wasn’t mine! Hope this makes sense

I've done that, i'll admit it. Had a sponsor years ago who decided that we should all have exactly the same bodyshell colours. Unfortunately, at one meeting, 4 of us were in the same heat, and it was a mass start, as opposed to a staggered one. After the first corner, i was racing what i thought was my car for 2 laps and thinking 'christ, i'm flying today, and the car's going like a dream'. Then, whoever it actually was crashed, at which point i tried to see where my dad was (to see if he was grumbling to himself about my crash), only to notice him running across the field at full pelt chasing after my car....


...to this day, he still thinks it was interference!!

[Kopite]

Originally Posted by ashleyb4

Kevin getting super glue in his eye. lol i laughed so much when he told me.

unless it was his middle eye, then that's pretty harsh dude

[Lee Martin]

cruise....any more pics???

long time ago now!!!

[Nick Goodall]

Originally Posted by Cruise

To everyone who missed Neils Jump i can provide some Fotos.
The first shows Craig Drescher shooting the car up the roof the second is the remains of the car. The pic of the jump itself is too bad to be posted,

Cruise

Excellent, have you got any more pics? That was really funny, i remember the first time it struggled to even make it up and Craig luckily caught it!