Did You Know That Petter Solberg Has Raced Tamiyas?

[caprinut 0]

As you may or may not know, Petter Solberg has raced Tamiya buggies in the 80s...

Here are a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KLjasm9kK0

[casethejoint 296]

He won a national championship at 13 according to Wikipedia.....

The other big name in RC is of course Lewis Hamilton.

[sosidge 624]

Pedro de la Rosa also raced, won a couple of european 1/8th championships in the 80s apparently.

[mr. Rallying 8]

I did as well, but never became World Champion in any 1/1 motorsport.. (yet...)

[SHY69 37]

Yup!

Check out www.ymr.no/historie.htm

[Origineelreclamebord 45]

I recall it reading it somewhere before, but it still remains a surprising and cool fact!

[mix237 0]

Yup, got that video saved on my computer. I also raced with a bigwig in the 80's.