Alex is a 16 year old High School Junior living in Chandler Arizona. He began racing R/C cars in 2004 with a used Associated TC3 touring car. Shortly after that, Alex started racing his Dad’s RC18T in the oval class as well and has one first place trophy in 18th scale for oval. He also got an Associated B4 to play in the street and local dirt lot. When the local hobby shop announced that it had closed the carpet track and were putting in dirt, Alex started racing offroad. A couple months later Alex went to watch the 2006 Cactus Classis. He turned to his Dad and said “I want to race in this next year”. During the next year, he raced onroad touring cars and offroad buggy and found a little company called X Factory. He saw the new X-6 they were developing and decided it was the buggy for him so he had his Dad pre-order one. He has not looked back ever since. He raced the X-6 every weekend he could and did compete in the 2007 Cactus Classis as he said he would. He made the C Main with his X-6, which was not bad for his first big race.

Alex now races primarily at two tracks in Arizona. He races at SRS in Scottsdale and Competition Hobbies in Tucson. Along with racing his X-5, X-6 and new X-60, he still races onroad touring cars and recently picked up another 12th scale car. If it has wheels, Alex will race it. Alex will be attending the Cactus Classic, SIGP, Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout, and ROAR offroad Nationals this year. When asked what he wants to do for his graduation trip from High School, he just smiled and asked if the Belgium GP was out of the question. Why SpeedyPenguin? He has been collecting penguins since he was ten years old. He has quite a collection. Penguins aren’t speedy you say? In fact, they are the world’s fastest birds…. under water. Outside of R/C cars, Alex likes watching Formula 1 and full-size touring car racing along with Star Trek. Alex is also sponsored by BC1 Graphics.

Dave Warner has had a lifelong love affair with R/C Racing – he started as a kid back in 1986 with a Hotshot. He moved up to a Schumacher Cat in both Novice and Stock 4WD club racing, but after two years he left R/C for other hobbies, saying, “It was hard work running these money hungry high wearing machines”. Over the next decade, he read the occasional R/C Car Magazine and watched a few meetings. When brushless came out, Dave couldn’t resist the lure and started racing again.

In 2002, he raced Touring Cars, and bought a B4 in 2003. Getting back in the groove was easy, as Dave took 3rd in the 2WD State Titles in 2005. In 2007 he took 2nd in 4WD and 4th in 2WD at the State Titles, 3rd and 10th at the Interclub Challenge, and made the B/C Finals at the Nationals. Dave has continually improved, taking 9th at the 2WD nationals this year.