Team Torque

Team Torque was a Scottish Robot Wars team that entered a number of series with five different robots.

The team originally comprised of Richie McBride and Martyn Sloss, alongside Robin Idoon in earlier series. These three fought with All Torque in Series 2, and were joined by Richie's son Alex in Series 3. After the retirement of All Torque, a new machine Small Torque was built, but Idoon had left the team.

The team made two robots for Series 5, Hippobotamus, captained by Richie McBride, who entered alongside his son Alex and was joined by his daughter Ellen, and Bot Out Of Hell, captained by Martyn Sloss who entered alongside his family - his wife Lesley and his son Daniel. In addition to this, Richie McBride's family also created Fighting Torque, which fought in Extreme 1. The fact that these robots were entered, means that Team Torque were the first team in UK Robot Wars to compete with two different robots in a main competition.

Team Torque was very creative in its naming of machines, with all five machine names being puns.
 * All Talk
 * Small Talk
 * Fighting Talk
 * Hippopotamus
 * Bat out of Hell

Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 3
 * Losses: 8

Series Record

 * Series 1: Did not enter
 * Series 2: Heat Final with All Torque
 * Series 3: Heat, Round 2 with All Torque
 * Series 4: Heat, Round 2 with Small Torque
 * Series 5: Heat, Round 1 with Hippobotamus and Heat, Round 1 with Bot Out Of Hell
 * Series 6-7: Did not enter