Are you a racer, a basher, a builder or a collector?

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Are you a racer, basher, builder or a collector?

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Are you a racer, basher, builder or a collector? And If you do all three just vote for the one you do the most.

It’s not a debate, I’m just curious what the ratio of racers/bashers/collectors we have here. :mrgreen:

In my case I’m certain that racing is definitely driving my interest in the hobby and also the reason my vintage stuff is out of storage. Myself and most of the racers I hang-out with are all close in age (mid-late 30s), we all raced as kids which makes for some good nostalgic bench-racing at the pub and vintage RC inspiration.
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I get more kick out of building and restoring than running.
I have no place for racing within an hours drive, and no time for prep, race and rebuilds.
I barely run any of my models these days so I'm more builder than basher :lol:

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race and collect. rarely bash.
that might change soon as my son is about to get his first rc.

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I propose a fourth option, "Build". I'm primarily a builder, I do a lot more designing and building than actual driving (be it racing or bashing), and I don't have the collector gene. So considering that, I couldn't really choose any of the provided options.
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This is a tough call for me as I've been racing and collecting for the past 20+ years. I would have said racer first a couple of years ago but I've always enjoyed collecting the stuff I grew up with. I still have my first RC10 that started me in this hobby. I've also ended up with 8 RC10T4's amongst everything else, they don't seem to go away.

My collection is pretty good and my race results are pretty good too, so it's a tough call.
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In terms of what I spend the most time doing, then it would be a racer. Prepping various cars, and then time spent racing, is definitely more time consuming. That said, I love the building and restoring old cars part of the hobby, I just don't spend as much time on it.

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I'd like to say I'm a builder, but at my root I'm a procrastinator, and being that neither of those are options on this poll I'll just check off collector.

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I like to bash and collect, and may race at some point on a limited basis.

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I recently returned to racing after nearly 20 years away (1994). I bought a current day car to race but have wanted to relive those old days, so I'm putting an old RC10 together, with thoughts of a WOIN to follow and then hopefully a Yokomo.

Plan is to race all, as that is what I enjoy, but I'm just as happy tinkering and modifying parts during the week :wink:

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I started out as a racer and now a builder/restorer/developer. So I also like a forth option “builder”
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"Build" added to voting options.
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I picked basher but I don't really bash so much as I would rather run an all day practice with a few heats thrown in here and there than an actual race day. I am just not serious enough about racing to call myself a racer.
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Since internet forum browser isn't an option, I will take the average of the past few years and call myself a racer. To some extent I've done each at some point in time though.

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racer turned builder as kids and being a Dad take up too much time ATM to race. I checked collector as it suits me the options the best.
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Non of the above.
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