I used to walk past a model shop in Pretoria where the owner had video's of buggies on a beach racing around. I drove my old man mad until one random day he showed up with a Tamiya Hornet. I was only 7 but I built it all myself and got it running in 2 days after school. A few friends in my street got Tamiya's too (Frog, Wild Willy and a couple of others) and so we built a track in a field at the end of our road and started the 'Tamiya racers club'. This was all while I was about 8yrs old. We had no way of counting laps and each only had one battery so 'racing' was a very loose description of what we did
We basically just tried to see who could do the most laps with the batteries we had and then had to go to the guy that lived closest to recharge from his mom's car. She would feed us and we'd be off again. Not sure when or where the Hornet ended up.
When I was 17 I had a brief stint again and swapped a BMX for 2 reasonable buggies but only messed around and it didn't last long as a young man of that age has different priorities
Then when I moved to the UK a mate got me started on touring cars at Tolworth which lasted about 2 years but rain and outdoor electric racing wasn't exactly fun so I quit that.
2 years ago got a ZX-5 and found a few clubs (EPR is closest) but I soon got sucked into the Micro scene so my 10th racing has been sporadic at best. I've attended a few 10th meetings here and there and will do a lot more this year but I race 18th scale buggies twice a week indoors and love it. I did the 2007-2008 BRCA Micro nationals and will dothem again this year. Loving it!
