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Video: Inside look at the new TLR 8IGHT 3.0 with Horizon Hobby

Horizon Hobby and TLR have worked together to put together an in-depth video talking about the all-new TLR 8IGHT 3.0 1:8 buggy with Todd Hodge. Todd explains the new buggy, it's features, improvements, and more. The buggy has proven to be a race winn

Mike Garrison Jan. 31, 2013, 5:49 a.m. View Comments

Mike Swauger wins the West Coast Nitro Onroad Challenge

Team XRAY driver, Mike Swauger, recently attended the 2013 West Coast Nitro Onroad Challenge. Swauger was quickly identified as the man to beat as he laid down some of the fastest laps early on. He was able to take is XRAY RX8, equipped with the PROT

Mike Garrison Jan. 31, 2013, 7:29 a.m. View Comments

OCRC announces the 2013 Stock Nationals

OCRC Raceway is proud to be hosting the OCRC Stock Nationals once again! The dates for 2013 are April 27th and 28th. Last years inaugural event was a huge success, and we expect this year will be even better! Sign ups will be open April 1st online at

Mike Garrison Jan. 31, 2013, 8:24 a.m. View Comments

The new Tekno R/C SCT410 is taking the country by storm

In Northern Californa, Austin Blair TQ'd and won the A Main at P1 Hobbies Epic Freeze race. In Southern California, Barry Baker TQ'd and won the A Main at the Top Notch Series Round 3 at OCRC. In Pennsylvania, in Texas, in Ohio, in Florida - the SCT4

Mike Garrison Jan. 31, 2013, 9 a.m. View Comments

The HPI Racing Baja 5SC gets an updated look and fresh engine for 2013

HPI Racing is known for their 1:5 Baja series lineup of vehicles. Most 1:5 scale racers and bashers alike can agree that HPI is one of the leaders and innovators in the modern day 1:5 scale industry. For 2013, HPI Racing has freshened up the look of

Mike Garrison Jan. 31, 2013, 6:21 a.m. View Comments

Pro-Line wins at the Reedy International Race of Champions

Pro-Line Team driver Rob Gillespie is victorious at the 2013 Reedy Race of Champions. Considered one of the most prestigious events in RC, the 19th running of the Reedy race of Champions proved to be another epic event. Rob Gillespie had an amazing w

Mike Garrison Jan. 31, 2013, 6:01 a.m. View Comments

Video: Team Durango DEX408T electric 1:8 truggy at the Nuremberg Toy Fair

Team Durango, in addition to hundreds of R/C companies, are in attendance at the annual Nuremburg Toy Fair this week in Germany. The Team Durango YouTube channel was updated today with a spy video from the toy fair. While the video is short and only

Mike Garrison Jan. 31, 2013, 6:05 a.m. View Comments

AKA officially releases their new "Tire Prep Cloths"

AKA Tire Prep Cloths have been designed to remove oils, dirt and debris from the tire bead prior to gluing, maximizing the glue bond. Each package contains 10 individually packaged cloths.

Mike Garrison Jan. 30, 2013, 4:40 a.m. View Comments

Team Associated releases the new T4.2 1:10 stadium truck

The RC10T4.2 kit now comes with the latest Factory Team high-performance option parts like the 12mm Big Bore threaded shocks, VTS slipper clutch, blue aluminum bellcrank set, and 12mm wheel hexes, just to name a few. Also included in the T4.2 Factory

Mike Garrison Jan. 30, 2013, 4:45 a.m. View Comments

Video: TRFT Studios goes winter bashing with the Team C TS4 SCT

Winter time in Finland means one thing, snow bashing! TRFT Studios has just released their latest video production, this time snow bashing with the Team C TS4 4wd short course truck.

Mike Garrison Jan. 30, 2013, 4:53 a.m. View Comments

Matt Olson scores a perfect weekend at the 2013 Venom Offroad JAM

Matt Olsons sweeps the Venom Offroad JAM Mod SC classes using his Tekin powered MIP trucks!

Mike Garrison Jan. 30, 2013, 4:59 a.m. View Comments

Craig Patterson takes Tekin to victory at the LSR Speedway Winter Points Series

The 2012/2013 LSR Speedway Winter Points Series was a six race series with only one throw out. Tekin driver Craig Patterson entered the ultra competitive Pro 17.5 2wd Buggy class and, after consistent and impressive finishes, took the overall title!

Mike Garrison Jan. 30, 2013, 5:03 a.m. View Comments

Team Durango releases the new DEX410 "DJoint" drive shaft system

Specially designed for the DEX410 range of vehicles, our DJoint drive shaft system is a product with one valuable racing commodity in mind, efficiency. The DJoint drive shafts feature a double joint in the coupling of each shaft, meaning that each jo

Mike Garrison Jan. 30, 2013, 5:09 a.m. View Comments

TLR releases the new 8IGHT 3.0 1:8 buggy kit (with video)

The tradition of winning and dedication to superior engineering continue with one of racing's most famous buggies. Building upon the heritage of the 8IGHT buggy, the 8IGHT 3.0 elevates perfection and is poised to dominate the track. Guided by some of

Mike Garrison Jan. 30, 2013, 4:29 a.m. View Comments

Martin Bayer and Francesco Martini re-sign with XRAY for 2013

XRAY has announced today the return of two top drivers to the XRAY team for 2013!

Mike Garrison Jan. 30, 2013, 5:40 a.m. View Comments

TLR releases the new TEN-SCTE 2.0 4wd short course kit (with video)

The TEN-SCTE platform is one of the most successful 4WD electric short course chassis of all time. It has dominated its class at tracks all over the world and proven it has what it takes to win a ROAR National Championship. The TEN-SCTE 2.0 kit build

Mike Garrison Jan. 30, 2013, 4:15 a.m. View Comments

XRAY releases new graphite adjustable battery holder for the T4

XRAY's new graphite adjustable battery holder allows for adjustment to eliminate battery play on the T4 chassis. The battery position can be moved forward, rearward, inboard or outboard depending on the battery size used, allowing the battery to be p

Mike Garrison Jan. 29, 2013, 5:48 a.m. View Comments

Video: Team Orion gives an inside look at the Vortex R10 ESC production process

Team Orion has just released their latest video production, and this time they are giving you an inside look at how one of the most successful speed controllers in the world is made, the Vortex R10. It may be small in size, but there is full of big d

Mike Garrison Jan. 29, 2013, 4:44 a.m. View Comments

Shepherd announces Michael Palazzola as their newest US driver for 2013

Shepherd is proud to announce that top US racer Michael Palazzola has joined the factory racing team for the upcoming nitro on-road season. The California based driver is going to race 1/10th scale and 1/8th scale and will attend the Florida Winter N

Mike Garrison Jan. 29, 2013, 5:29 a.m. View Comments

Tekin wins big at the P1 Hobbies second annual Epic Freeze Race

This past weekend P1 Hobbies hosted the 2nd annual Epic Freeze in Lakeport CA. A good turnout of around 140 enters with a lot of the top Northern California racers! Tekin drivers were able to dominate three major classes!

Mike Garrison Jan. 29, 2013, 5:23 a.m. View Comments

Adrian Berntsen signs on board with Team AME for the 2013 season

Team AME is happy to announce the signing of top Norwegian touring car driver, Adrian Berntsen. Adrian will use the AME MBT Asphalt and AME MBT Carpet Additive for all of his XRAY Cars.

Mike Garrison Jan. 29, 2013, 5:57 a.m. View Comments

Martin Harrison and Kevin Hawkinson take JConcepts to victory at Flowood

Martin Harrison and Kevin Hawkinson TQ and win with JConcepts at the Flowood R/C January Jam.

Mike Garrison Jan. 29, 2013, 4:55 a.m. View Comments

Team Orion releases the new Advantage Touch Advance 10amp AC/DC charger

The Advantage Touch Advance is an AC/DC color touch screen charger with incredible features: thanks to the integrated 100W power supply charge currents of up to 10 Amps are possible to fast charge your batteries (1-6S LiPo/LiFe/LiIon, 1-15C NiMH/NiCd

Mike Garrison Jan. 28, 2013, 5:21 a.m. View Comments

Cavalieri takes Orion to the top step of the podium at the Reedy Race of Champions

This past weekend, US superstar Ryan Cavalieri, has won the prestigious Reedy Off-Road Race of Champions ahead of last year's winner Dustin Evans, both using the latest generation Team Orion Vortex VST2 Pro motors! Jared Tebo completed the great resu

Mike Garrison Jan. 28, 2013, 6:46 a.m. View Comments

The Track Raceway wraps up the Mid Atlantic Offroad Championship

Most of the top East Coast Drivers attended at the MID ATLANTIC doing their job in each class. From Team Associated Mike Gay, Gunnar Rieck and Alex Miller. From TLR Anthony Mazzara. From Kyosho Robert Meyer and John Noon. From Team Schumacher Gabriel

Mike Garrison Jan. 28, 2013, 5:13 a.m. View Comments

JConcepts Scalpel Grand Prix race report (with video)

Village Raceway in Royal Palm Beach Florida, JConcepts debuted a new, one of a kind racing event featuring the new Scalpel conversion for the Traxxas Slash 4×4 and Rally 4×4 vehicles. Racers were on their A-game taking their vehicle setups seriously

Mike Garrison Jan. 28, 2013, 5:40 a.m. View Comments

Team Durango interviews their newest racer and star player Ellis Stafford

To the more seasoned of our loyal followers, Ellis Stafford will need no lengthy introduction. For those of you new to the world’s fastest growing sport, who may not be aware of the truly formidable racing C.V of Team Durango’s newest pro team driver

Mike Garrison Jan. 28, 2013, 6:09 a.m. View Comments

XRAY announces the return of European Champ Reno Savoya for 2013

XRAY is happy to announce that multiple European Champion Reno Savoya has extended the contract with XRAY team for 2013. Reno has been very valuable member of R&D team and works closely with Juraj Hudy on the further development of the XB9.

Mike Garrison Jan. 28, 2013, 6:23 a.m. View Comments

ROAR answers back to speculation of recently compliance testing only the D3.5 17.5 motor

The ongoing feud between ROAR, Trinity/Epic, and racers worldwide continues this week as ROAR has published an announcement in regards to the speculation made that they have recently only compliance tested the Trinity/Epic D3.5 17.5.

Mike Garrison Jan. 28, 2013, 6:30 a.m. View Comments

Serpent announces their all-new Spyder SRX2 1:10 2wd offroad buggy

Serpent is working on a full line of 1/10 scale offroad cars, headed by 1/10 2wd buggy World Champion Billy Easton. The 1st release will be the SPYDER SRX-2, the 1/10 scale 2wd buggy, which will be shown at the 2013 Toyfair in Germany next week, a

Mike Garrison Jan. 28, 2013, 6:18 a.m. View Comments

Multi-time UK champ, Ellis Stafford, joins Vampire Racing for 2013

Vampire Racing is proud to announce the signing of two-time 1/10 scale 4WD EFRA European and multiple British Champion Ellis Stafford.

Mike Garrison Jan. 28, 2013, 5:34 a.m. View Comments

Cody King joins REDS Racing engines for 2013

REDS Racing is pleased to welcome 2010 IFMAR World Champion, Cody King, to the team.

Mike Garrison Jan. 28, 2013, 2:09 p.m. View Comments

Serpent releases new 411 series composite gear differential

Serpent has just released their new composite gear diff for the 411 series vehicles. For the new diff the small and large gears inside are made from a very durable and smooth composite, and the aluminum axles are replaced by a composite X-shape axle.

Mike Garrison Jan. 24, 2013, 5:05 a.m. View Comments

Team Orion releases VST2 Pro sensor brushless 1:8 motors

With the Vortex VST2 Pro sensor brushless motors for 1:8 scale cars Team Orion introduces a completely new motor design using the experience from the US national champion motor MR8.

Mike Garrison Jan. 24, 2013, 4:48 a.m. View Comments

Pro-Line signs UK superstar Elliott Boots through 2014

Pro-Line Racing has announced today that the 2012 IFMAR 1:8 Worlds TQ, Elliott Boots, will be joining the Pro-Line team through 2014!

Mike Garrison Jan. 24, 2013, 4:55 a.m. View Comments

RACE COVERAGE: 2013 Reedy Race

Coverage from the 2013 Reedy International Off-Road Race of Champions!

Eric Swanson Jan. 24, 2013, 3:57 p.m. View Comments

Win a B4.2 in Fantasy R/C this weekend!

Play the AKA Fantasy R/C League at 2013 Reedy International Off-Road Race of Champions starting on Friday, Jan. 25 for your chance to win a decked out B4.2!

Brandon Rohde Jan. 24, 2013, 9:18 p.m. View Comments

Team Durango releases new 210 series gear diff for high traction surfaces

The Team Durango gear diff set for the 210 range of vehicles is a wonderful tuning aid for racers who often grace tracks with high grip levels. Precision machined gear internals and a custom fit diff case make this tuning aid a joy to build and even

Mike Garrison Jan. 24, 2013, 5:11 a.m. View Comments

Video: Pro-Line's Kyle McBride talks about the 2012 IFMAR Worlds

Our friends at Pro-Line Racing have shared a pretty cool video with team driver Kyle McBride from Australia. The rising star talks about his experience at the 2012 IFMAR World Championships, and his goals for 2013.

Mike Garrison Jan. 23, 2013, 5:26 a.m. View Comments

Team Orion releases the new Advantage ONE406 charger

The Advantage ONE 405 is a very attractively priced AC/DC entry level charger opening the doors to the quality and design of the Team Orion Advantage charger family.

Mike Garrison Jan. 23, 2013, 4:43 a.m. View Comments

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