History of the 1/8th IFMAR Off Road Worlds - Part #4: Kanai Gets His Win!

All right.

Well, let's go.

We're going back to Portugal or we're going to Portugal.

The Germans are coming in now.

Daniel Reckwood.

I remember I think I was paying attention at this time.

You would see his name everywhere.

Yeah, I'll be honest.

Yep, and he comes in and breaks up the Italian-Japanese stranglehold that they kind of had on the world championships.

And so far, he's the only German driver to win a world championship.

This took place in Coimbra, Portugal.

And this is Kyosho win number four and probably also one of the most iconic engines to ever exist back then with RBWS7, which you had to have back in the day.

the power was unreal you could you could hear the difference i remember the first time i see one was um linus thurn's dad hacken thurn at hemet in 94 or 95 and that thing just a missile down straight i've never seen anything so fast in my life it was like a cheetah a cheetah engine and everyone thought it was bigger than a 21 because of the head on it it was the only the only comparison was when O'Donnell used to make heads for OS and that for the American temperatures but that head was so big on the O'Donnell it used to kill the bottom end of the engine because it you had to lean it out so much to keep it running right so it was just no lubrication to the bottom end kill it

and then you have to have the right pipe and manifold combination to get it perfect

yeah yeah yeah but the rb was just like the pipe everything was spot on yeah i can't believe how right they got that engine

and there we go there's record right there i do believe and that does he even does he still race i can't remember that

i can't remember that that body being that color i can always remember Yeah, it was like a yellow and orange color, wasn't it? Yeah, I think I

have that one.

I have that picture.

Yeah.

I can't remember that color.

I think that was 4RB, that colors.

Let's see.

I have it right here.

That was

the closest race with the La Roca from Le Chat, the French driver.

That was like, for the last 15 minutes, I thought Le Chat was going to win it.

But that Laro was like a brick.

It used to look like the old cars from, like, 1988.

And it had the laid-down shocks as well before the modern Laro come out.

Well, we used to say Laro.

Is that what we're talking about?

Yeah.

Okay,

yeah.

We say Laro, but you'll say Laro.

I remember I wanted that car.

Yeah, Gadani was there.

That's the first time I met Gadani then, and he smelled so

good.

sorry because that was what he was affectionately known as with his i don't

know how he had this ingrowing toenail forever and he used to wear these like what you'd say is like orthopedic training shoes or something like that with a great big i don't know whether it looked like metal toe cap so training shoes i've never seen anything in my life and never smelt anything in my life He still smells now anyway, even when he's got a good toe, doesn't he?

He's something else he is.

He is.

Yeah, he is.

But

he never changed.

I'll tell you what, he's one of the most loyal guys I can ever...

When he was sponsored, he was sponsored.

And he's not like just flakes around for anything he could get.

He always stuck with the people that looked after him.

So he was pretty cool with Clive's show as well.

Well, he told me that everybody else got... good like he he was in a very highly competitive time of eight scale when he won his we're going to talk but he said that he had to work extra hard yeah just to um just to get where he where he was right and he surprised a lot of people when he won his world championship

yeah

but uh actually a video of it we've researched for years and years and we finally found uh Nicholas took some video.

I'm looking for a picture of Daniel Rackwood, and that's the only one I have, unfortunately.

It's very hard to find.

All right.

Well, let's go.

We're going back to Portugal or we're going to Portugal.

The Germans are coming in now.

Daniel Reckwood.

I remember I think I was paying attention at this time.

You would see his name everywhere.

Yeah, I'll be honest.

Yep, and he comes in and breaks up the Italian-Japanese stranglehold that they kind of had on the world championships.

And so far, he's the only German driver to win a world championship.

This took place in Coimbra, Portugal.

And this is Kyosho win number four and probably also one of the most iconic engines to ever exist back then with RBWS7, which you had to have back in the day.

the power was unreal you could you could hear the difference i remember the first time i see one was um linus thurn's dad hacken thurn at hemet in 94 or 95 and that thing just a missile down straight i've never seen anything so fast in my life it was like a cheetah a cheetah engine and everyone thought it was bigger than a 21 because of the head on it it was the only the only comparison was when O'Donnell used to make heads for OS and that for the American temperatures but that head was so big on the O'Donnell it used to kill the bottom end of the engine because it you had to lean it out so much to keep it running right so it was just no lubrication to the bottom end kill it

and then you have to have the right pipe and manifold combination to get it perfect

yeah yeah yeah but the rb was just like the pipe everything was spot on yeah i can't believe how right they got that engine

and there we go there's record right there i do believe and that does he even does he still race i can't remember that

i can't remember that that body being that color i can always remember Yeah, it was like a yellow and orange color, wasn't it? Yeah, I think I

have that one.

I have that picture.

Yeah.

I can't remember that color.

I think that was 4RB, that colors.

Let's see.

I have it right here.

That was

the closest race with the La Roca from Le Chat, the French driver.

That was like, for the last 15 minutes, I thought Le Chat was going to win it.

But that Laro was like a brick.

It used to look like the old cars from, like, 1988.

And it had the laid-down shocks as well before the modern Laro come out.

Well, we used to say Laro.

Is that what we're talking about?

Yeah.

Okay,

yeah.

We say Laro, but you'll say Laro.

I remember I wanted that car.

Yeah, Gadani was there.

That's the first time I met Gadani then, and he smelled so

good.

sorry because that was what he was affectionately known as with his i don't

know how he had this ingrowing toenail forever and he used to wear these like what you'd say is like orthopedic training shoes or something like that with a great big i don't know whether it looked like metal toe cap so training shoes i've never seen anything in my life and never smelt anything in my life He still smells now anyway, even when he's got a good toe, doesn't he?

He's something else he is.

He is.

Yeah, he is.

But

he never changed.

I'll tell you what, he's one of the most loyal guys I can ever...

When he was sponsored, he was sponsored.

And he's not like just flakes around for anything he could get.

He always stuck with the people that looked after him.

So he was pretty cool with Clive's show as well.

Well, he told me that everybody else got... good like he he was in a very highly competitive time of eight scale when he won his we're going to talk but he said that he had to work extra hard yeah just to um just to get where he where he was right and he surprised a lot of people when he won his world championship

yeah

but uh actually a video of it we've researched for years and years and we finally found uh Nicholas took some video.

I'm looking for a picture of Daniel Rackwood, and that's the only one I have, unfortunately.

It's very hard to find.