Racing drivers and R/C cars
Did you know that Ayrton Senna owned a Tamiya? Or that Peter Brock once opened an off-road R/C track?
I dug through my old magazines and other materials, to gather together some rarely seen photographs of famous racing drivers messing about with R/C cars, mainly from the 1980s.
Ayrton Senna
While Ayrton Senna is famous for having begun his racing career in go-karts in the 1970s, photos from the 1980s suggest he was also interested in R/C car models.
In 1985, UK Tamiya importers RIKO (Richard Kohnstam) apparently gave Ayrton both a Tamiya Hotshotand Tamiya Fox, painted in JPS (John Player Special) colours, akin to the cars of the Lotus-Renault team that he was driving for at that time. Here’s Ayrton holding the Hotshot, and the article also mentions that he apparently drove the car in the pit lane at the 1985 South African Grand Prix…
At the 1985 Australian Grand Prix, hobby enthusiasts helped Ayrton develop his early skills flying R/C aeroplanes, and recalled that he was able to fly “solo” only after a few flights, as he picked up the skill in an exceptionally short time. Each year thereafter, Ayrton would indulge in R/C model aircraft while in Australia, as he found it particularly relaxing. (Great footage of him flying his R/C planes can be foundhere and here).
While visiting a store called Model Flight in Adelaide during the 1987 Australian Grand Prix, Ayrton again did some R/C car driving, and here he is holding a Tamiya Lotus Honda 99T – the model of his own F1 car of the 1987 season, which was one of Tamiya’s latest models at the time…
He also spent some time outside with the new Tamiya Clod Buster monster truck…
FONTE: http://rctoymemories.com
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