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View Poll Results: When did you first start racing?
On or after 2008 48 10.91%
2006-2007 21 4.77%
2004-2005 11 2.50%
2002-2003 6 1.36%
2000-2002 16 3.64%
1998-2000 12 2.73%
1996-1998 17 3.86%
1994-1995 19 4.32%
1992-1994 56 12.73%
Before 1991 234 53.18%
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Old 10-01-2011
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About 87. Started off road at Bedworth with a Mardave Meteor. Then a Schumacher Topcat, Cougar and the RC10 etc. Raced at Donisthorpe. Stopped racing around 1994, Just started racing again but onroad.
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93 for me with a Tamiya Madcap that lasted about 2 weeks before changing to an Optima Mid...

Raced seriously through to 2001 (end of) doing Nat's from 96 and competing at 4 Euro's & 1 Worlds (3 Euro A Finals in that time and actually 4th at the 4wd 2001 Euro's I proudly add) then packed up...

Picked up a Radio again to have a play in 2007 doing the F2's as the only "Serious" meeting and then did a few meetings on and off until 09 but have got married and had a Baby since then so no time and not enough £££ to start racing again (not at the level i'd want to do it at anyway)...

It's a great sport though, i think the best Father & Son motorsport out there really.........safe, fun, great social side and you get to travel all around the country!

I like catching up on here and seeing what old friends are up to and how they're doing, but the best part for me is seeing how well Lee has gone on to do (and is still doing so) as I was there at the very start of his racing career (literally the first meeting) so it's really good to see him doing so well.
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92 for me, first car was a Tamiya Monster Beetle then went on to a Cougar Club and first raced at Ashford Model Car Club that ran buggys on foam tyres ran by Clive and Terry Stockham of MRT fame.
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Started racing in 1993 until about 1997/98, quit racing all together for around 7 or 8 years. Came back in 2005 until 2008, quit for another year then started up again in March 2009.

Feel like im always playing catch up on the 7/8 years missed!

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1974 Mardave on road
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'05 with a Hyper 7 Pro UK
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1985 with a Tamiya Frog!!!!
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94' but i wouldnt count it as racing lol.



took me 2 years befor the old man moved me and Jay from club racing and keeping away from all the other drivers to regional meetings.
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I started in 1986 with a tamiya Falcon.. then hotshot, then Cat XL. Gave up in 1989 then came back 18 months ago. I was amazed at how much things had changed.
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1984 with a Tamiya Frog at Derby Model Car Club, stopped in 1987 after seeing girls in a different way!

Returned to racing in 2009.

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1985 with a Grasshopper was my first 'race' - having had a Tamiya Holiday Buggy since 1981 but nowhere to race it.
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1988 for me, first car being a hotshot and then a PB mini mustang when the racing bug bit!! Wished I still had that car

Had a 10 year layoff from 1995 and started back up in 2005 with the TC's... Found my way back over to off road in 2009
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1988 with a Lancia 037 (Frog basically) and gave up 1994.

Always wished I had kept the Lancia, but managed to track down one in much better condition than the one that I used for racing on ebay so snapped it up.

Did T/C for a year in 2000 and didnt enjoy it but offroad was dead in Scotland.

2010 started again with a B44, planning to race as much as I can spare time this year, it still amazes me how much time my father committed to me when I raced. It was at least once a week, sometimes more. I could never manage anything close to that now.
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Started with Scalextric in the summer of 1994, switched to rc the year after. Took a 5 year break in 2000, started back about 2 months before the TC4 was launched.

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Late 80's early 90's built a track in my back garden had about 4/5 mates on a weekend come round good times.

I had the Kyosho Big Brute mates had the Big Boss and the Corvette version and loads of Trinity Turbo Drops
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'84 (Tamiya Pajero) - '91ish (Tomy Intruder) via Fox, Kyosho Salute, Yokomo YZ870c and Schumacher Cougar 1
'08-Various Losis & x6

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started 87 with a Tamiya frog, then hotshot 2, optima mid turbo, cat xls, yz870c, then back to a cat xls (still got it) stopped in 91, started again in 2008
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I had a Tamiya Boomerang for Xmas '86 so I started racing in 1987. I soon realised it wasn't up to much though so I got myself a Mid instead.

I've raced on and off ever since, mostly off though
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got a mardave apache in 85 raced my brothers hornet up and down the street untill we discovered canterbury burners. have raced on and off since but like mr collinson had a 7-8 year break from 98-05. regret that now as love my racing

had loads of different cars over the years from optimas, samuris, top cats cougars xls procats, pb's etc etc
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