Schumacher Racing Products

Schumacher Racing Products

Company type	Private Limited Company (Ltd.)
Industry	Racing
Founded	1980
Headquarters	Northampton, England
Key people	Cecil Schumacher Robin Schumacher Phil Booth Brian P. Vogt
Products	Radio-controlled cars
Number of employees	30
Website	www.racing-cars.com

Schumacher Racing Products is a British manufacturer of radio-controlled cars and accessories.

Stock Schumacher Menace GTR with body off.

History

The founder, Cecil Schumacher, was a Cosworth transmission engineer who was recruited from Borg Warner to lead the design team to adapt the Hobbs transmission (which he had worked on) to handle the Cosworth DFV's power. Cecil spotted his workmates driving radio-controlled cars on the company's helipad and decided it needed a ball differential after noticing the cars skittered. He soon started noticing different ways these early primitive cars could be improved. Having noticed high tyre wear he introduced the ball differential to radio-controlled cars. ^{[1] [2]}

in 1981 Schumacher Racing Products was formed in Northampton, England, after a local model shop requested the ball differentials used by Cecil's son Robin and his friends. Schumacher soon started selling internationally.

The company has always operated out of Northampton ^[3] but sources some components from China like most other RC companies; however, the majority of manufacturing remains in England. Cecil Schumacher's son Robin Schumacher took over the business in 2001.

Racing Success

IFMAR World Championships

Year	Title	Driver	Model	Reference	Report
1987	1:10 4WD Off-Road	Masami Hirosaka [4]	CAT XL	[5]	report
2020	1:12 Elec. Track	Marc Rheinard	Eclipse 3		report
2020	1:12 Elec. Track, Stock	Andy Murray	Eclipse 3		report

European Championships

1985 - Andy Dobson 1:12 1988 - Phil Davies 1:12 1988 - Jürgen Lauterbach, 3rd 1:12 1995 - Craig Drescher 1:10 4WD 1st

ROAR National Championships

Year	Title	Driver	Model	Ref.	Report
1987	1:10 4WD Off-Road	Jim Dieter	"Dieter" CAT	[6]
1995	1:10 4WD Off-Road	Brad Reelfs	CAT 2000 EC

References

1. "Interview with Cecil". RC Racing TV. 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
2. Burr, Norman (12 June 2015). First Principles: The Official Biography of Keith Duckworth. Veloce Publishing. p. 156. ISBN   9781845845285 . Retrieved 14 June 2016.
3. "The Hobby Hub". Radioracecar.com. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
4. "FLASHBACK FRIDAY: A complete timeline of Schumacher CAT 4WD buggies". www.liverc.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
5. Interview with Cecil, RC Racing TV, 2006, retrieved 29 July 2012
6. Rich Hemstreet. "'87 Off Road Nats" (PDF). Dirt Burners Magazine.