View Full Version : how old were you when?
bigred5765
13-09-2008, 01:36 PM
i thought that might get your attention, you perv's
OK seriously hold old were you when
you made your first national A final and what year,???
and when you made it to F1 license grade and year again,???
LEGEND
13-09-2008, 02:30 PM
Just checked now and it wasnt the A-final but the B, so never mind then.
Garry Driffill
13-09-2008, 03:57 PM
LOL what sorta question is that :lol: ...
rcracer
13-09-2008, 05:29 PM
Just checked now and it wasnt the A-final but the B, so never mind then.
he said national A final
bigred5765
13-09-2008, 06:46 PM
legend or l-mag lol
bondy
13-09-2008, 08:50 PM
This Year 2008 First National A Final 1/8th Truggys Round 1 at the tender age of 34 only took 22 years ! :thumbsup:
F1 -- oh thats that formula thingy you have with them dinky toys ! :woot:
Was F2 back in 1998 or sometime round then ! :confused:
Gnarly Old Dog
15-09-2008, 03:56 PM
Time to set the way-back machine Herman!
The year was 1988 and the venue was Mansfield.
One leg A's back then - managed a 5th if I recall correctly.
Gained my F1 licence during the first year they were bought in - can't remember rightly but it must of been about 1990/91. Back then, you had to make 2 A or B finals in the season to get the top grade.
Age back then - now that would be telling but 2010 will see me eligible for the vets under the current rulings:p
_sleigh_
15-09-2008, 04:01 PM
You must have had that all written down in a diary or something, cause there's no way you could have remembered it at your age. :p
Gnarly Old Dog
15-09-2008, 04:03 PM
You must have had that all written down in a diary or something, cause there's no way you could have remembered it at your age. :p
Nearly Phil but not quite!
I have to have a good memory to be able to recall the times when I used to be quite fast - that's all:thumbsup:
Remember - the older you get, the better you were!
niggs98
15-09-2008, 04:22 PM
according to the stat attack i made one aged 13 in 1989. got my first f1 in 1998
now have 5 to my name :D
my question is who is the youngest ever national A finalist ??????
Year 2000 for me but it was onroad :confused:
Sorry to ruin the thread :blush:
Southwell
15-09-2008, 04:33 PM
Year 2000 for me but it was onroad :confused:
Sorry to ruin the thread :blush:
Hang on....
Im not usually a tea drinker (i`m straight)
Mossy
15-09-2008, 04:35 PM
16 for me for my first National A, 2wd at Kiddermisnter with the Blade. Got my F1 that year aswell.
Hang on....
abused :blush:
Yardeeee
15-09-2008, 06:44 PM
1st National A: Tiverton, 2wd. 2003. Qualified 4th, finished 2nd. Aged 16.
Gained F1 in 2001 I believe... aged 14, think I finished 28th in 2wd to gain it.
Youngest ever national A finalist was Craig Drescher and I THINK he was aged 10, could have been 9... I wasn't racing then, have just heard the story.
woOdy
15-09-2008, 06:48 PM
I did it in 1993, At Bury Metro and I qualified 2nd. Age was 18 but I have an even better one than that! It was with a TRAXXAS????????:woot: Didnt do very well in the finals but the year after I won every leg and I got called rotten for it. Horses for courses, they called it. Has anyone else won at there home track? Let me think! Did they get called it. NO.
matdodd
15-09-2008, 07:24 PM
I got F1 in 2000 & my First National A final was Tiverton 2003 Q5th F4th!
ashleyb4
15-09-2008, 07:32 PM
My first national A final was....... Maybe in 2020 or something.
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Chequered Flag Racing
15-09-2008, 08:31 PM
you made your first national A final and what year,???
just done it :thumbsup:
49 & 11 months / 14th Sept 2008
A final 12th Scale National.
Here's the proof (http://www.rcracechat.com/vb/showpost.php?p=348555&postcount=12)
Q4th finished 9th :mad:
_sleigh_
15-09-2008, 08:45 PM
Gained my F1 back in '99, and barring a year break due to none racing I've had it ever since. Not sure ont he year of my first national A, but I remember it was at Aylesbury in 2WD running a borrowed XXX KE. Can't even remember where I qualified or finished (how bad is that).
Yardeeee
15-09-2008, 10:04 PM
Gained my F1 back in '99, and barring a year break due to none racing I've had it ever since. Not sure ont he year of my first national A, but I remember it was at Aylesbury in 2WD running a borrowed XXX KE. Can't even remember where I qualified or finished (how bad is that).
My sad bastard racing memory is kicking in here... you were using a XXX with a stars and stripes shell... Glyn Stuart's was it? and you qualified 4th... just in front of Richard Taylor who won his 1st national that day from 5th on the grid. Don't know where you came, think the year was 2000.
matdodd
15-09-2008, 10:23 PM
:o O my god I remember that shell!
Southwell
16-09-2008, 06:54 AM
Even i remember back that far!
Mossy
16-09-2008, 08:08 AM
Didnt Robbo make the A with his xxx?
Chris Doughty
16-09-2008, 08:17 AM
I can't remember, I know it was broxtowe in 2WD, 1993? that would have made me 13, but I have no idea on the year, I got in from heat 6 or 7 though.
Broxtowe was ace!
_sleigh_
16-09-2008, 08:21 AM
Chris, remember that RRC meeting at Broxtowe in the heavy mud :o:o
Chris Doughty
16-09-2008, 08:24 AM
Chris, remember that RRC meeting at Broxtowe in the heavy mud :o:o
I forget Mud very easily... terrible stuff :thumbdown:
Teddy truman
16-09-2008, 01:01 PM
First A was i think 2003.... qualified 4th as holbeach:) got F1 that year:)
Bradders
16-09-2008, 03:31 PM
First A was at Kirkcaldy in bonnie Jockland... qualified 7th, finished 4th. I think I even managed to beat Craig Drescher :thumbsup: which was the coolest feeling as a young whippersnapper! It was in 1995 methinks (need Yardy's memory for that). I'd have been 13 and got my F1 that year as well.
Lee Martin
16-09-2008, 03:37 PM
my first A was Hampshire....i was 16, qual 10th! scraped it!
Got my F1 that year too!
i remember phils first, but knew yardy would too. qual 4th. remeber the body and remeber marshalling it! hahahahah!
Bradders! superstar!
_Bish_
16-09-2008, 05:45 PM
Made F1 in 2001 and made my first national A at Kidderminster in 2003 at the age of 27 qualified 9th and finished 6th, I was 2nd in the first leg until i realised Neil had crashed in front of me and i had Tricky and Chris behind me, then i crashed on the next corner ended up 4th in that leg.
My 2nd A final at Bury St Edmunds is my best days racing, After 2 rounds i had my name read out as TQing the meeting:thumbsup:
Lee Martin
17-09-2008, 08:48 AM
chased???????????????? lol
_Bish_
17-09-2008, 08:59 AM
Should have spell check on here!!!!:thumbsup:
Phil Channon
17-09-2008, 09:26 AM
I made my first A in 2006 at Telford, at a young 37. Qualified and finished 10th. The finals were cancelled. Something about rain?:thumbdown:
I also got my F1 that year too. :thumbsup:
_sleigh_
17-09-2008, 10:39 AM
It's a sign the house market's slowing down, Bish has the time to post on here :p
BTW.... you've still got my pinion from Eastrax :eh?:
GRIFF55
17-09-2008, 01:15 PM
And mine Bish!!:woot:
Adam Skelding
17-09-2008, 01:28 PM
First A was at Kirkcaldy in bonnie Jockland... qualified 7th, finished 4th. I think I even managed to beat Craig Drescher :thumbsup: which was the coolest feeling as a young whippersnapper! It was in 1995 methinks (need Yardy's memory for that). I'd have been 13 and got my F1 that year as well.
I remember the meeting. You and Mr Cree made the A from heat 1 and 2. You were a proper little mard-arse back then. :thumbsup:
Not much has changed since:p
My first National 'A' was in 2003 at the tender age of 30.
F1, Hmm, I got that in 92-93 only missed it one year since.
My first National 'A' was in 2003 at the tender age of 30.
Seriously???? :o
Belsten
17-09-2008, 07:32 PM
First A was at Kirkcaldy in bonnie Jockland... qualified 7th, finished 4th. I think I even managed to beat Craig Drescher :thumbsup: which was the coolest feeling as a young whippersnapper! It was in 1995 methinks (need Yardy's memory for that). I'd have been 13 and got my F1 that year as well.
I remember that meeting
Never been in an a or been f1, heres hoping for next season :woot:
Body Paint
17-09-2008, 07:52 PM
No A finals for me yet :(
I made my F1 in 2006 which was my first full National seaon :thumbsup:
ashleyb4
17-09-2008, 08:00 PM
Your National champion craig you must of made an A.
A
Belsten
17-09-2008, 08:03 PM
I think he is refering to 10th ash :)
Nick Goodall
22-09-2008, 09:13 AM
First National A was at Tiverton (Rd1) in 1998 making me 15 at the time, Qualified 6th after battling with the legend that was Jamie Booth all day - This was with a Losi XX Kinwald edition.
I made my F1 in 1997 during my first year of Nat's.
Highlight of that year for me was setting TQ in Rd1 at Springfield at the 2nd national that year, the track was Ellis' home track and a bit hard work from what i remember, a strange bombhole with a really dodgy exit/jump.
Funny how you can remember things if you think hard enough!
Welshy40
22-09-2008, 10:21 AM
i thought that might get your attention, you perv's
OK seriously hold old were you when
you made your first national A final and what year,???
and when you made it to F1 license grade and year again,???
First National A was 1993 and I was 20
Welshy40
22-09-2008, 10:23 AM
Duh, Craig you have made the indoor British champs finals A's, and can be classed as a national A, including a pole here and there from you.
Belsten
22-09-2008, 01:24 PM
I would have said a National A was one of the rounds of the outdoor National series, not meetings run to National rules
Like a few others on here, I was a late bloomer in off-road...
Made my first National A in 12th in '98 at Chesterfield but in off-road my first A final was Bury St Edmunds in 2002 (or maybe 2003), qualifying 4th and finishing 3rd with a XXX. (I even TQ'd the final round - I was WELL chuffed).
That was at the fine age of 27. Got F1 for the first time in 2000 - and then promptly lost it again the next year as I was driving a Fireblade (oh the shame...)
Welshy40
24-09-2008, 07:13 AM
I would have said a National A was one of the rounds of the outdoor National series, not meetings run to National rules
I am unsure what its like now, but the indoor finals was basically a national, just on carpet or indoor flooring.
You must remember as all the F1s turned up (team Kyosho, Team Yokomo, Traxxas, Schumacher etc etc) and pretty much won the events all the time, so I kindof would count it.
Craig made pretty much all of the A's with exception of the first event held in Ellesmere port so I reckon thats quite a few for him.
rich_cree
08-10-2008, 07:01 PM
First A was at Kirkcaldy in bonnie Jockland... qualified 7th, finished 4th. I think I even managed to beat Craig Drescher :thumbsup: which was the coolest feeling as a young whippersnapper! It was in 1995 methinks (need Yardy's memory for that). I'd have been 13 and got my F1 that year as well.
That was my first too. to be fair it was also my first ever national! Qualified 2nd in 2wd, finished 2nd too. My equal best ever national result was my first ever one.....:(
Think I was 15 or 16 depending on when it was in the year.
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