This past weekend JConcepts Team Driver Kody Numedhal attended the 3rd annual Field of Dream Classic in Garden City, Kansas. Many of the top drivers from Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas were in attendance for this great event. In qualifying Kody was able to put his Associated cars equipped with JConcepts Bar Code tires on [...]

Last weekend ended a Wild West shootout in Arizona. Three men entered, and one walked out The Champion. This year the KBRL held the Short Course Triple Crown series. The three race series brought the best racing talent the state had to offer. Heading into the final race of the Triple Crown series the title [...]

After spending some time at STL Customs designing and making my SC10 GT conversion for the Team Associated RC10GT, I was able to find some time to continue on my 1/5-scale trophy truck project. This time we have brake pads. I picked up a set of hydraulic brakes from AMS for the front and rear [...]

The quick and dirty answer is–drum roll, please–yes and no. For me, there are a few segments that qualify as the good old days of RC. The first segment is the mid eighties when I discovered hobby-grade RC and almost immediately started racing. These were the good old days because everything was new and exciting. I [...]

JConcepts releases a ton of pre-mounted tires for popular vehicles, plus new wheels for the Traxxas1/16 E-Revo and Slash, and a replacement under-tray for the B44.1. It has been said that the devil is in the details, and while that is a debatable statement there is no denying that the Tense wheels for the Slash [...]

“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.” Someone much wiser than I said this phrase many ages ago, and it applies directly to politics, engineering, life in general, and of course, RC.  With participant turn-over rate in RC that’s remarkably high–ie, our hobby has more new RC’ers each year than those who stay [...]

Airtronics releases a pistol grip radio with race features, 4 channels, fast response, and is compatible with cars and boats. The new MT-4 is the first 2.4GHz pistol grip radio to provide telemetry, industry leading latency, SSR (narrow pulse-width, super fast servo response) compatibility, and 4 channels with advanced programming. The feature set of the [...]

TLR driver Jake Wright claimed his first big win of the 2011 season with a dominating performance at the Coppersate Crawloff held over the weekend just outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Jake drove his Xcelorin powered Mini Rock Crawler Pro to victory in the 1.9 class over an extremely talented field of drivers including SDS Customs [...]