My RC Models

Fourteen year-old Gareth Hunt (not the guy from the coffee ads) is looking forward to winning a big radio controlled car race in a few weeks. Gareth, from The Lane, Sauchen, has been racing radio controlled cars for four years and competes in both indoor and outdoor races.

Gareth recently competed in the Much More Grand Prix in 2007 and finished as top junior.

Coming up shortly is what has been described as one of the world’s largest radio controlled car races, in Mineralwell Park, Stonehaven, and Gareth will be there to compete.

Running from June 13 - 15, the race is expected to have over one hundred entries on each day. Friday is the practise session.

Gareth says about his racing:

Now that I am older, I also enjoy the challenge of building my own cars, painting the body shells and setting up the car to race on different tracks and surfaces - this can be indoors on carpet or outdoors on tarmac.

I have won a few races locally in Inverurie and Stonehaven, I also had a good finish (third) in the UK juniors last summer.

I am looking forward to the Much More UK GP at Stonehaven because the driving standard will be really high and I will have the opportunity to race against drivers from all over the UK and from different parts of the world. Hopefully I can also learn more from these very experienced drivers to help me drive faster and to improve my car set up.

I will also be taking part in the UK juniors again this summer to be held in Bedworth, England, so it will be really busy again this summer racing both in local club rounds and national events.

I hope lots of people come along to watch the racing at Stonehaven - it’s really exciting and you will be surprised at the very high speeds the cars reach on the fastest section of the race track.

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