MAX and HASI racing engines and spares. Over 30 years in the RC Racing Car business. 33 years ago I moved to the Yeovil area and opened my Hi-Fi shop in the town. I had been racing karts for 18 years but decided to give up the sport as any injuries might curtail the running of my new business. After a few months I met a chap that I used to race with and he told me that he had taken up model car ra
cing. He had been involved in a bad kart crash and was unable to race anymore. As he lived in London he visited the, now rebuilt, Chrystal Palace model racing car circuit and had been bitten by the 1/8 bug! He invited me down to the Mendip circuit to meet up and also to see this new sport. That was it... I was also bitten by the bug and within a couple of months I had bought my own 1/8 car and started racing. It was obvious from the start that I was not going to achieve the success that I had in karting, but nevertheless I loved this new form of sport/pastime. One thing that I was good at was preparing and tuning engines and chassis, and it was not long before I was re-building and tuning motors for my colleagues at Mendip. I approached OPS for engines and spares and they were happy to supply me. It just sort of snowballed from there really. I started to stock complete race cars and spares above my hi-fi shop in Yeovil...and the rest is, as they say, history! Eight years ago I approached Mugen Seiki Europe to become the UK importer for Mugen ON Road Car Kits and Accessories with the aim to putting the hugely respected name of Mugen back onto the race circuits with a back-up service that would be second to none. In the 8 years that we have been the UK's sole On-Road nitro distributors (and latterly the Premier TC car agent) I believe that we have achieved that aim, and more. Footnote:
4 years ago Mugen released their first ever Electric 1/10th Touring Car (designed by ace chassis designer Robert Pietsch) the MTC1. Although the car was a bit of a change 'from the norm' of TC car design, it was not a huge success.
2 years later Robert designed the current MTC2 chassis which was a complete revelation in chassis design. Although not an overnight success it has Now proved, itself over the last 18 months, to be a car capable of beating the World's best. In the extremely capable hands of Ronald Volker it has already shown it's winning ways.
