Panic Attack was a robot that competed in the British television game show Robot Wars. It was a short, box-shaped robot painted yellow (gold in series 6) with a large black spider on the top of the machine. Its main weapons were lifting spikes located on the front of the robot, capable of overturning another robot. However, these weapons were not used extensively until series 3. A top-mounted self-righting mechanism was added to Panic Attack in Series 3, although this proved to be unreliable, and was eventually removed. Added in Series 4 were a set of side "skirts" to prevent all but the lowest of robots from getting underneath it. The robot competed in series 2-7 of Robot Wars, winning the second series.
The team captain of the robot was Kim Davies, who was originally joined by Kevin Pritchard and Lee Wicombe. In series 3, Pritchard left the team to create a similar robot named Evil Weevil and Davies was joined by his son Michael and Simon Rosen. Christian Bridge won a competition in Robot Wars Magazine to join the team for series 4. In series 7, Davies quit the team to work as a technical assistant on the show, so the team was entirely changed. Pritchard returned and took over the controls with teammates Paul Wier and then-webmaster of the official Panic Attack website, Jamie McGarry.
Results
Series 2
Heats
- Gauntlet: Qualified
- Trial (Sumo): Qualified
- Arena Semi-Final vs Whirling Dervish: Won
- Arena Final vs Disruptor: Won
Semi-Finals
- Gauntlet: Qualified
- Trial (Pinball): Qualified
- Arena vs Mortis: Won
Grand Final
- Eliminator vs Killertron: Won
- Final vs Cassius: Won
Series 3
Heats
- Round 1 vs Axios: Won
- Round 2 vs Toe Cutter: Won
- Round 3 vs X-Terminator: Won
Semi-Finals
- Round 1 vs Thing 2: Won
- Round 2 vs Firestorm: Lost
The First World Championship
- Eliminator vs 101: Lost
Series 4
Heats
- Eliminator vs Overkill GTI vs SMIDSY: Qualified
- Semi-Final vs Saw Point: Won
- Final vs SMIDSY: Won
Semi-Finals
- Round 1 vs Spawn of Scutter: Won
- Round 2 vs Stinger: Lost
War of Independence
- Round 1 vs Rammstein: Won
- Round 2 vs Mortis: Lost
Extreme Series 1
All-Stars
- Round 1 vs Firestorm 3: Lost
Mayhem vs Diotoir vs Shear Khan: Won
Annihilator 2
- Round 1: Qualified
- Round 2: Qualified
- Round 3: Qualified
- Round 4: Eliminated
Wild Card Warriors vs Axe Awe: Won
Vengeance vs X-Terminator: Won
International Inferno vs Flensburger Power vs Manta vs Maximill: Won
Series 5
Heats
- Eliminator vs Barber-ous: Won
- Semi-Final vs Tiberius 2: Won
- Final vs Kat 3: Won
Semi-Finals
- Round 1 vs Pussycat: Lost
- Losers Melee vs Wheely Big Cheese vs Firestorm 3: Lost
Series 6
Heats
- Round 1 vs R.O.C.S. vs Corkscrew vs Kronic 2: Qualified
- Round 2 vs A-Kill: Won
- Final vs Terrorhurtz: Lost
Extreme Series 2
Commonwealth Carnage
- Round 1 vs Terror Turtle vs Cerberus vs Crushtacean: Qualified
- Round 2 vs Firestorm 4: Lost
Series 7
Heats
- Round 1 vs Mega Morg vs Edge Hog vs Spin Doctor: Qualified
- Round 2 vs Tough As Nails: Lost
All-Stars Championship
- Round 1 vs Bigger Brother vs Kat 3 vs Firestorm 5: Qualified
- Semi-Final vs Dantomkia: Lost
Series Record
- Series 1: Did not enter
- Series 2: Grand Champion
- Series 3: Semi-Finals
- Series 4: Semi-Finals
- Series 5: Semi-Finals
- Series 6: Heats (Final)
- Series 7: Heats (Round 2)
Honours
Series 2
- Second Wars Grand Champion
Series 4
- Sumo Champion
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