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On Saturday May 12th, round #4 and the first outdoor round of the Michigan State Championship Series was held at The Track in Carleton, MI. The weather forecast was not great, but still 104 entries showed up ready to finally race outdoors and they were treated with beautiful weather all day and plenty of racing action on one of the premier racetracks in Michigan.

1/8th Scale Nitro Buggy
The man to beat all weekend was  TLR and Pro-Line’s Dakotah Phend, who was the only one to get an 11 lap qualifier and thus taking TQ in the class. With only 12 seconds between the 3rd qualifier and the 10th qualifier, the main was expected to be full of battles. Due to technical issues, 2nd place qualifier Mo Denton was not able to make it to the grid, so it was going to be a field of 10 cars ready to battle. Dakotah got a clean start, but behind him there was carnage in the first turn with several cars tangled up. At the end of the first lap, Dakotah already had a 1.5 second gap on Nick Vasquez in second and the rest of the field following closely. Several laps later, the position changes settled down a little bit and the running order was Dakotah Phend in first, followed by Tony Carnes in second and Nick Vasquez in 3rd. Throughout the 30 minute main, battles were going on for 3rd through 8th place. In the end, it was TLR’s Dakotah Phend taking the win with Tony Carnes in second and TLR’s Mike Marshall, who worked his way up from a 10th place qualifying position, in third. Dakotah ran Pro-Line’s Revolver M3′s.

Results:
1. Dakotah Phend – Pro-Line
2. Tony Carnes
3. Mike Marshall
4. Michael Weihl
5. Nick Vasquez

Current standings in the series (no drops taken into consideration):
1. Dakotah Phend (608 points) – Pro-Line
2. Michael Weihl (570 points)
3. Tony Carnes (564 points)
4. Mike Marshall (548 points)
5. Nick Vasquez (547 points)

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Pro-Line Driver Patrick Hofer wins 1/8 Brushless German Championship’s Warm-Up

Patrick Hofer wins the Warm-Up race of the 1/8 Brushless German Championship with his Team Associated RC8.2e equipped with Pro-Line wheels and tires.

Patrick discovered his new car on Saturday and found a good setup during the practice. During the 10 minute qualifiers, Patrick secured the first place and obtained the pole position.

Due to rain on Sunday, the second race day was canceled and Patrick won the overall Warm-Up race based on qualification results.

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Pro-Line Driver Dominic Bauer was the man of the weekend – winning all practice heats, 3 out of 4 qualifiers, the Semi Final and the Final. For second place was a very close fight between Pro-Line’s Hupo Honigl, Martin Wollanka and Thomas Mayr which was finally decided by better fuel millage of Hupo before Martin and Thomas.

We had a long drive ahead of us with almost 400 miles from our house up to the Rockhampton Cup in our car! We arrived on the Friday to get some practice in, and have our cars dialed. We didn’t change one thing on the buggy as it was super fast from the get go.

This was our first meet ever with the ST-RR Evo Truggy and as soon as it hit the track I was very impressed, it was so easy to drive and we changed only few things to get it dialed. The Rocky track was a fun track consisting of both grass and dirt, it started off quite ‘grassy’ but by the end of the meet the dirt had rose and it was a wee bit rough in some sections.

I managed to secure TQ in both classes, winning all three of my qualifiers for both classes. With a big turn out of 100 + entries, I was able to bump straight to the main without having to complete a semi final. With this in mind, my dad and I got wrenching and got both cars prepared for the finals. I was running Pro-Line’s M3 Bowties for my buggy, and M3 Calibers Truggy.

Overall, I again managed to win both truggy and buggy finals but a fairly descent margin. I would like to thanks all of my sponsors: Kyosho, Pro-Line, Os Engines, KO Propo, Venom, Neo + fuels, Podified Engines and my dad Overall it was a great weekend and a big event in Queensland for this time of the year.

Regards, Kyle

Pictures: NeoBuggy.net

Let’s face it, the Slash has pretty much carved out a huge chunk of the RC industry spawning a segment that has grown into Epic proportions in just a few years. One of their latest versions of this game changing truck is the Ford F-150 Raptor SVT. This model more closely captures the realistic lines of the real street Version Ford produces.  With all the realistic styling in this latest verison, I just couldn’t resist creating my own version’s of a Pre-Runner / Baja Chase Truck.  Especially with all the cool upgrades and accessories we offer here at Pro-Line.

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This past weekend was round 2 of the Cape Fear Championship Series at Cape Fear Raceway in Fuquay Varina NC. The Track was in prime condition and with the track taking a groove very early on he went to Pro-Line’ss Newest tire  the “Tazers”  which were up to the task of propelling him into a solid Tq in Pro Buggy and starting 2nd in E-buggy. Even after 25 minutes of hard racing in the Nitro A main final the tires continued to set the pace giving Nick Cattuna the Win in Pro Nitro Buggy.  He then went on to back that up with a Win in the E-buggy class with some “Revolver 2.0″ M4 compound tires.

He was using the following Pro-Line Products:

Pro-Line M4 Tazers on White V2 Velocity Wheels

Pro-Line M4 Blockades on White V2 Velocity Wheels

Pro-Line Bull dog Body for Mugen MBX6

Pro-Line High Downforce Wing

This years ROAR nationals will take us into the mountainous area of Pennsylvania. The track is actually kind of in a valley in the mountains. The track is mostly made up of white powdery dirt a lot like that of the Nationals in Colorado a couple years back. The only difference is, this track see’s more sunshine and the dirt can go from low traction to super traction in a matter of a few hours of hot sunshine. The track itself stays together and really doesn’t break up all that much. It can get a bit dusty, but with the right moisture, the track condition will make for some great racing. The warmup layout was quite interesting to say the least. There are almost two straightaways on the track. You have a long front straight, followed by a diagonal straight into a banked oval turn. This is LCRC’s trademark in the track layout and they try to retain it from lay out to layout. Other than that, it only had a couple more tricky sections. The 6 pack, or double, double, double was easy, up until the point it was dusty and some of the jump faces started to deteriorate. The other hard section on the track, or more so hard on the car was the 5 foot step down, or drop off. This proved really challenging on the cars suspension and ability to absorb.

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Round 5 of Southern California’s Grass Roots series went off last week, and we attended on Sunday. This race was at one of our favorite tracks, the Palm Desert RC Raceway. The weather was nice, a little hot mid day (97f), but not too bad.

Qualifying went well as I TQ’d the first round by 10 seconds. My second round was a little slower with the worse track condition. The track was too dry and it was getting bumpy and slick, but I still held on for the TQ position. Read the rest of this entry »