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The RC8.2 gets new rear hubs and chassis brace support from AVID R/C

AVID R/C has released the ultimate tuning rear hub set and chassis brace support seen on the pros RC8.2 vehicles. Check it out!

Mike Garrison Oct. 15, 2012, 6:16 a.m. View Comments

JConcepts releases the new Yokomo B-Max2 "Finnisher" body

JConcepts hit the ground in Vaasa, Finland with an all new body design specifically for the IFMAR World Championships. Cleverly named, Finnisher, the unique design quickly rose to the top of the field during competition and proved effective on the gr

Mike Garrison Oct. 15, 2012, 6:09 a.m. View Comments

Ben Panic takes TQ and wins the 2012 JS Cup in Malaysia

Ben Panic TQ’s and Wins the JS Cup in Malaysia with JConcepts! Read the full race report!

Mike Garrison Oct. 15, 2012, 6:27 a.m. View Comments

PROTOform and Ronald Volker win the ETS opening round

Picking up right where he left off in Vegas last week, Team PROTOform’s Ronald Völker dominated Touring Car Modified at this season’s first Euro Touring Series race! Read the full race report!

Mike Garrison Oct. 15, 2012, 8:34 a.m. View Comments

TOP Racing releases new offset front axles for the Rebel-R F01

TOP Racing has just released their all-new option offset front axles for the Rebel-R F01. The new offset axles replace the stock axles and offer a wider range of tuning for more or less steering response depending on the driver and track.

Mike Garrison Oct. 15, 2012, 8:52 a.m. View Comments

JConcepts to release 2wd buggy "Pressure Points" tire?

JConcepts announced today their all-new "Finnisher" body for the Yokomo B-Max2 2wd 1/10 buggy. While the body is quite stylish and eye catching itself, there was another eye catching feature in the press release! Read the full report!

Mike Garrison Oct. 15, 2012, 9:15 a.m. View Comments

Thunder Alley R/C Raceway announces the 2012 Turkey Cup Shortcourse Classic

Thunder Alley announces the annual Turkey Cup Classic. All the money raised in the raffle goes towards the food bank along with the food racers donate! This is Thunder Alley's GIVE-BACK race to help others less fortunate and struggling in their life

Mike Garrison Oct. 15, 2012, 6:32 a.m. View Comments

Revolution Design Racing Products welcomes Czech rising star Kaja Novotny

Revolution Design Racing Products is proud to welcome Czech off-road talent Kaja Novotny to their world-wide team of drivers! Read the full press release for more!

Mike Garrison Oct. 15, 2012, 6:44 a.m. View Comments

Finish of the 1/8 scale offroad season with Racetober Fest this weekend!

The end to the Pacific Northwest 1/8 scale offroad season is fast approaching. Racetober Fest is the race held each year to bring it all to a close, so dust off your rigs for one more go round! Crown Raceway in Southern Oregon is hosting this 3 day r

Ian Stark Oct. 15, 2012, 7:09 a.m. View Comments

JConcepts collects two at the 2012 Reedy Truck Race of Champions

Numedahl, Motter, and JConcepts win at the Reedy Truck Race of Champions! Read the full race report!

Mike Garrison Oct. 12, 2012, 7:40 a.m. View Comments

Team Durango announces the 210 RTR's now available in Europe

Team Durango is delighted to announce that their three new Race Ready RTR cars are now available for customers in Europe.

Mike Garrison Oct. 12, 2012, 5:09 a.m. View Comments

Jon Howels wins the 2012 BRCA Truggy National Championship title

Consistant performances over the summer in nitro truggy finally delivered the BRCA overall Championship for Jon Howels!

Mike Garrison Oct. 12, 2012, 5:13 a.m. View Comments

JConcepts brings home the wins at the South Florida Short Course Nationals

JConcepts reports from the 2012 South Florida Short Course Nationals!

Mike Garrison Oct. 12, 2012, 6:02 a.m. View Comments

13 year old Dillan Voelker wins the HobbyPLEX Pro2 Summer Series

With near 200 entries, each class had super exciting battles all summer long. There is no room for mistakes and with only one drop with most of the class titles going to the last round! Dillan Voelker was the 2010 Pro 2 SC Champ and he had his sights

Mike Garrison Oct. 12, 2012, 4:46 a.m. View Comments

PT R/C Oils, Triton R/C, and Advantage Racing announce MWNS Sponsorship winners

The 2012 Midwest Nitro Series wrapped up last weekend in Joliet, Illinois. Series sponsors, PT R/C Racing Oils, Triton R/C, and Advantage Racing, have awarded a select group of series drivers, with the most consistant results and hard work, sponsorsh

Mike Garrison Oct. 12, 2012, 5:32 a.m. View Comments

XRAY announces the X12 and X10 will remain unchanged for the winter season

XRAY has recently released the T4 touring car platform, replacing the dominant T3 series. This has brought about the question as to how many other cars in the XRAY family will be receiving replacements this winter?

Mike Garrison Oct. 12, 2012, 5:26 a.m. View Comments

Video: Serpent Cobra 811 truggy in action slow-mo!

Serpent has shared with us a cool little video with the Serpent 811T truggy. This video is all slow-mo and really shows the truck suspension working its hardest! Check it out!

Mike Garrison Oct. 12, 2012, 5:04 a.m. View Comments

Carson Wernimont and Team Durango win at the Reedy Truck Race of Champions

The 2012 Reedy Truck Race of Champions took place last weekend where Team Durango's Carson Wernimont and Travis Amezcua were in full force in the Pro4 SCT class. A win by Amezcua and a 2nd place finish for Wernimont in A3 would secure the overall wi

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 5:47 a.m. View Comments

Jubal and Easton Dike win at Round 4 of the CCEOC Series

The 4th round of the CCEOC Series was set to be held outdoors at DK Raceway, however the fall Indiana weather would force it to JCP's indoor track on Saturday, Oct 6. There were 60+ entries on the day, consisting of several electric classes that race

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 5:57 a.m. View Comments

Simon Willets is crowned the 2012 BRCA Electric 1/8 Buggy Champion

For 2012 the BRCA formed a new Electric 1/8 Buggy Class Championship. The final round made its way to Coventry R/C recently where the championship was still up for grabs. At the end of the day, after some impressive driving, it would be Mugen Seiki /

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 6:05 a.m. View Comments

Kyosho announces the release of new Rossi, Pedrosa, and Stoner replica bikes

Since the introduction of both versions of the Yamaha YZR M1 version of the most scale and sophisticated RC Mini-Z motorcycles in the world, Kyosho has since announced a No. 46 Rossi version of the Ducati Desmosedici GP11 Moto GP machine (30052VR-B)

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 9:56 a.m. View Comments

Hupo Honigl wins the 2wd and 4wd Austrian Offroad National Championships

Team Durango's, Hupo Honigl, drove both his DEX210 and DEX410 cars to TQ and victory which secured the overall win of the Austrian 1/10 Offroad National Series! Read the full race report!

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 5:35 a.m. View Comments

Reno Savoya and Team XRAY win the 2012 Sweep Offroad Challenge

Reno wins the Sweep Challenge in South Korea, scoring yet another victory for the XRAY XB9 buggy! Read the full race report!

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 6:17 a.m. View Comments

Racers Edge releases new Pro2 truck aluminum and carbon fiber hop-ups

Racer's Edge is proud to announce a fresh lineup of hop-ups for their very own Racers Edge Pro 2 short course truck! Check out all the aluminum and carbon fiber bling!

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 9:35 a.m. View Comments

Vampire Racing success at the Austrian 1/10 Offroad Nationals

Vampire Racing factory team drivers Stefan Pfeifhofer and Rene Trauner look back on a very successful 2012 campaign in the Austrian 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals. Read the full race report!

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 5:21 a.m. View Comments

Hebert and Haynes take Team Associated to the win at the 2012 IIC

The International Indoor Championships (IIC), hosted by Scotty Ernst at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, continues as one of the premier stops on the racing calendar. The top drivers in the world converged upon the desert oasis Octobe

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 10:04 a.m. View Comments

New MIP aluminum steering posts for the Losi 4wd TEN-SCTE

Look no further for that Winning Edge that helped lead MIP's Matt Olson to Multiple Victories including JConcepts Indoor Nationals in Massachusetts! MIP has just released and has ready in stock these direct replacements for the stock steel posts in L

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 5:12 a.m. View Comments

Team Trinity domination at the 2012 International Indoor Championships

Team Trinity's D3.5 SPEC motors prove to be the highest consistency, provid the most power, and bring more race wins out of the box! More people used D3.5 motors at the IIC In Las Vegas than all the other brands combined!

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 4:43 a.m. View Comments

Michael Paige is crowned the "triple champion" at the Midwest Nitro Series finals

Michael Paige brings home the 2012 Midwest Nitro Series title wins in 1/8 electric buggy, 1/8 pro buggy, and 1/8 pro truggy! Read the full MWNS race report for more results and pics!

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 10:27 a.m. View Comments

Jason Branham and Agama win at the 2012 JConcepts Southern Nationals

In a very competitive field, Agama driver Jason Branham took the overall win and JConcepts Southern National Championship in the Pro Nitro Buggy Class this year!

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 4:54 a.m. View Comments

Video: The new Duratrax 835B 1/8 RTR nitro buggy in action!

Check out the new DTX 835B packed with race ready features as it hits the track in this DTX Video!

Mike Garrison Oct. 11, 2012, 4:59 a.m. View Comments

Schumacher releases new Mi4CXL "Alloy Worlds Suspension Mounts"

Schumacher is proud to release their new alloy Worlds Suspension Mounts for the Mi4CXL. This new modification for the Mi4CXL was developed by our high level drivers and used by Chris Grainger to gain an A final place at the 2012 IFMAR World Champions

Mike Garrison Oct. 10, 2012, 5:53 a.m. View Comments

APE releases their all-new heavy duty Tekno EB48 ackerman plate

APE is proud to release our new heavy duty EB48 Ackerman plate. The APE HD Ackerman plate was designed to eliminate a weak point of this awesome buggy. The plate is CNC machined from .090" 304 stainless steel for years of trouble free service and inc

Mike Garrison Oct. 10, 2012, 6:01 a.m. View Comments

STRC goes behind the scenes with their all-new Slash 4x4 LCG conversion kit

Recently STRC announced their all-new Traxxas Slash 4x4 LCG Chassis Conversion Kit. While the kit is still in the prototype and development stages, STRC owner Steve Wang, has sat down and put together some very interesting articles which take you beh

Mike Garrison Oct. 10, 2012, 5:38 a.m. View Comments

Team Orion releases the new Advantage Touch Pro 12V charger

The Advantage Touch Pro is equipped with a high power charge and discharge circuit! With a charge current of up to 12A and a discharge current of up to 20A, you can charge and discharge your batteries in record time. Thanks to its 150W charge circuit

Mike Garrison Oct. 10, 2012, 6:20 a.m. View Comments

Panther Tires is now accepting applications for the 2013 Racing Team!

Do you have what it takes? Send in your resume for a chance at a sponsored ride with Panther Tires!

Mike Garrison Oct. 10, 2012, 5:08 a.m. View Comments

PSM R/C releases new heavy duty carbon fiber shock towers for THECar

PSM R/C has just released their all-new carbon fiber shock towers for the JQ Products THECar 1/8 buggy. The new towers are made up of durable 4mm carbon fiber and are designed to be a direct replacement for the stock aluminum towers. PSM carbon fiber

Mike Garrison Oct. 10, 2012, 6:08 a.m. View Comments

JConcepts releases the all-new "Bro Codes" 1/10 buggy tire (with video)

The Bro Code has been broken at JConcepts, as the famously referenced tires have been released. The Bar Code V1 design has been a hit, the freshest tire design seen in the last 10 years of racing development regardless of class and scale has maintain

Mike Garrison Oct. 10, 2012, 4:44 a.m. View Comments

FTW makes a statement at the 2012 JConcepts Southern Nats

Those who have attended generally rave about the Southern Nats, and its easy to see why. Held in a cavernous temperature-controlled facility perfectly suited to a major RC race, the event typically draws around 300 participants including pros like Ry

Mike Garrison Oct. 10, 2012, 6:28 a.m. View Comments

2012-13 ROAR Region 2 Indoor Offroad Championship Series announced

ROAR Region 2 is hosting it's first ever Indoor Offroad Championship Series this winter to crown the Region 2 1/10 scale Offroad Regional Champions. Traditionally crowning a ROAR Regional champion is a one race event, however, the organizers of Regio

Mike Garrison Oct. 10, 2012, 4:54 a.m. View Comments

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