Posted: 12 February 2010 at 1:08pm | IP Logged

Hi all, just stumbled across this forum and was so pleased to see some names from my past!

I started racing about 26 years ago, with much help from phil Booth, at kimberley and derby model car clubs and eventually ended up racing 1/12th at national level (till about 1989) with such people as; dave towell (r.i.p) tim dakin, phil davies etc

after a long break from the sport i returned to 1/10th touring cars after a chance visit to worksop car club and a welcome meeting with phil booth again (who lent me a car for the day!) i was well and trully bitten by the racing bug. a couple of months down the line i was racing in the brca chapionships with a schumacher SST, and made a memorable journey to hiedelburg in germany to race, accompanied by Richard (Dick) Barton, Marc Neale and Steven Pole (after the return journey from that my poor car (a citroen zx volcane) literally heaved its last breath and fell apart on my drive!)

It would be great to hear from anyone who remembers me (hopefully someone will! lol) as i'd love to catch up with fellow 'old' racers.

i live in mansfield now, so am going to take a trip to worksop again as i've heard it's running again.

Cheers, John Jones