Hello and welcome

Hello and welcome, I hope to use this blog as a porthole for my favorite hobbies.

I have many (possibly too many) hobbies and interests which just happen to include;

Slot car racing, just think of that pile of track and cars that you have lurking in the loft and add a few steroids and hormones oh and a couple more volts!! and you have got what has to be one of the fastest forms of motor sport in the world. If you don't believe me then you should give it a go, I did around 18 years ago and have been hooked ever since, check out the web site of the club that I race at www.roedaleslotcars.co.uk you could also have a look at the BSCRA web site for information on tracks cars, race reports, suppliers and many other things to do with slot car racing in the UK and around the world.

Radio controlled cars; now again you need to add a few steroids and some testosterone to that radio controlled car you were given as a kid for Christmas/birthday. These cars are very much scale racing cars with many of the suspension adjustments that you would find on a real race car and a few that you wouldn't !! I have raced many types of radio controlled cars over the past 6 years and have had some degree of success, I have done most of my racing at Adur model Car Club but I have traveled around the UK to race at a few other clubs.
I started of racing 1/8th scale stock cars and hot rods and then after a few years moved onto 1/10th touring cars and most recently 1/12th hot rods, I have found the 1/12th hot rods to be the most fun to race so far, I have built but am yet to race 1/12th bangers, race one of these and I can guarantee you will have an ear to ear smile after the 5 minute race, check these web sites out for more information on radio controlled cars.
The national body for radio controlled racing in the UK
My local club for 1/18th stock cars, hot rods and 1/10th touring cars
My local club for 1/12th hot rods and bangers

As I am sure from the above you can tell i am very interested in motor sport, i think my real motor sport interest has to be short oval racing as all of the action happens there and then in front of you, there are many types of oval race cars. Some are knackered old family cars stripped out with a few safety measures added and then raced to within an inch of there life with full contact as and when required to dispose of the car in front of them (Bangers) and at the other end of the scale you have £30k purpose built space framed hatch backs raced millimeters of of the car in front with no contact just a little rubbing (Hot rods don't hit each other they just 'rub' the car in front, i would hate to see what happened if they ever did 'hit' each other, i think it would be called Armageddon!!)
Have a look at these sites for more info;
Spedeworth the main promoter of oval racing in southern England.
Check out this site for photos of banger racing from all over the UK.

Well that's just a small inside look at my intrests and hobbies hope it didnt send you to sleep, look out for more updates soon.