Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
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Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
I wouldn't normally plug, but I thought you guys might be interested (and may not have spotted this yet)...
http://rctoymemories.com/2015/04/06/ayrton-sennas-miniature-engineering/
After my brief rant about F1, you will see some vintage images of Ayrton messing about with Tamiyas back in 1986, that have never been published (anywhere) before.
Enjoy,
H.
http://rctoymemories.com/2015/04/06/ayrton-sennas-miniature-engineering/
After my brief rant about F1, you will see some vintage images of Ayrton messing about with Tamiyas back in 1986, that have never been published (anywhere) before.
Enjoy,
H.
Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
Nice! I remember seeing on TV Petter Solberg racing his car around the rally pits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petter_Solberg
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
Thanks for posting, pretty cool.
Did not know Ayrton was into cars, only remember he liked to fly RC planes.
Did not know Ayrton was into cars, only remember he liked to fly RC planes.
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
Thanks as well for posting. Senna was one cool down to earth guy, even though he grew up wealthy. He left us too soon!RC10resto wrote:Thanks for posting, pretty cool.
Did not know Ayrton was into cars, only remember he liked to fly RC planes.
Did not know Senna flew RC, I know Montoya likes to fly!
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
Cheers guys
fakiee - Nice to hear. Actually Petter got a mention in this earlier article as well.
slotcarrod - thanks for that clip. I'll mention it on the above link as an extra (even though it's not about cars)
fakiee - Nice to hear. Actually Petter got a mention in this earlier article as well.
slotcarrod - thanks for that clip. I'll mention it on the above link as an extra (even though it's not about cars)
Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
H,
I'm pretty sure the guy with Ayrton is Colin Spinner of UK Tamiya importers RiKo.
He organized lots of the racing and displays back then.
Here's a clip you might also like.
https://youtu.be/knuYY8oiDZU
I'm pretty sure the guy with Ayrton is Colin Spinner of UK Tamiya importers RiKo.
He organized lots of the racing and displays back then.
Here's a clip you might also like.
https://youtu.be/knuYY8oiDZU
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
Thanks for posting, I suspect a few of the f1 guys enjoy RC.
There was a programme here in the UK called Blue Peter, and they had a clip of a very young Lewis Hamilton enjoying racing RC cars as well.
There was a programme here in the UK called Blue Peter, and they had a clip of a very young Lewis Hamilton enjoying racing RC cars as well.
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
He must have been winning, if it looked like he was enjoying it....RJJ wrote:...they had a clip of a very young Lewis Hamilton enjoying racing RC cars as well.
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
thanks for sharing
There's also a few famous pics of Senna's malboro-colored 8th scale buggy (Burns, iirc) on the internet
edit: here http://kyoshosan.blogspot.ch/2013/10/the-boss-ayrton-senna-and-his-kyosho.html
HAmilton still races occasionnally, last time I think was 4hr 8th OR IC endurance race in my area a couple of years ago- he teamed up with another scale-1 top-dog racer (forgot who) and they ended up 4th out of 20 teams
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There's also a few famous pics of Senna's malboro-colored 8th scale buggy (Burns, iirc) on the internet
edit: here http://kyoshosan.blogspot.ch/2013/10/the-boss-ayrton-senna-and-his-kyosho.html
HAmilton still races occasionnally, last time I think was 4hr 8th OR IC endurance race in my area a couple of years ago- he teamed up with another scale-1 top-dog racer (forgot who) and they ended up 4th out of 20 teams
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
did you click on the link in my post, right above yours.....RJJ wrote:Thanks for posting, I suspect a few of the f1 guys enjoy RC.
There was a programme here in the UK called Blue Peter, and they had a clip of a very young Lewis Hamilton enjoying racing RC cars as well.
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
and Fernando Alonso
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http://www.cochesrc.com/fernando-alonso-corriendo-rc-de-gran-escala-1-5-gijon-a4089.html
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http://www.cochesrc.com/fernando-alonso-corriendo-rc-de-gran-escala-1-5-gijon-a4089.html
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
Cheers for the comments.
H.
Blue Peter clip appears in the previous article (also linked above), and posted in 2013stulec52 wrote:did you click on the link in my post, right above yours.....RJJ wrote:Thanks for posting, I suspect a few of the f1 guys enjoy RC.
There was a programme here in the UK called Blue Peter, and they had a clip of a very young Lewis Hamilton enjoying racing RC cars as well.
Petter also appears in that previous article.fakiee wrote:Nice! I remember seeing on TV Petter Solberg racing his car around the rally pits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petter_Solberg
Colin is mentioned 14 times in the articlestulec52 wrote:H,
I'm pretty sure the guy with Ayrton is Colin Spinner of UK Tamiya importers RiKo.
He organized lots of the racing and displays back then.
Very cool!Lonestar wrote:There's also a few famous pics of Senna's malboro-colored 8th scale buggy (Burns, iirc) on the internet
H.
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
I get that NASCAR isn't a popular form of racing outside the U.S. but Leonard Wood is another name you can add to the 1:1 race car drivers that was into RC.
Here's the thread on the LW designed car Bob Stormer owns: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=30373
And here's a vid of Leonard Wood's RC cars at the Wood Brothers Racing Museum.
[youtube]9_HQxnxtPRc[/youtube]
Here's the thread on the LW designed car Bob Stormer owns: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=30373
And here's a vid of Leonard Wood's RC cars at the Wood Brothers Racing Museum.
[youtube]9_HQxnxtPRc[/youtube]
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Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
Mentioning NASCAR, Tony Stewart is such a big r/c fan he owns Customworks
Lewis Hamilton still takes part in r/c races when he can. These are from an old regional meeting,
Lewis Hamilton still takes part in r/c races when he can. These are from an old regional meeting,
Re: Ayrton Senna & his Tamiyas
I used to race against Gordon Shedden.
Back when BOSSCAT was the buggy to have
Before he went on to become well known for his BTCC antics
Back when BOSSCAT was the buggy to have
Before he went on to become well known for his BTCC antics
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