The Pro-Line race team has been spotted at the 2010 Silver State in Las Vegas Nevada!

Pro-Line is pleased to announce the 22nd Annual Pro-Line April Fools Classic race coming up on April 9-11 2010!

Check out the race flyer and get signed up!

On behalf of County Line R/C Pullers, I would like to thank Pro-Line for their generous donation to our 22nd annual Winter Super Pull. Despite the massive snowstorm that hit the east coast, we had a very successful event. We actually had live Internet feed for the entire weekend for both the racing and pulling competitions. Once again the gift certificates went over very well and those that received them were very happy.

Thank you again for your support!

Darren Mealy

Vice President

County Line R/C Pullers

Pro-Line Team Driver Ty Tessmann spent some time between the Nitro Challenge and Silver State races to hang out in California with the Pro-Line team. While at the Pro-Line facility, Ty did a bit of tire testing (see video) and assisted in the development of a cab forward design buggy body.

Initial testing at Revelation Raceway had Ty very happy with the projects performance. Look for a sneak peek of the Pro-Line team putting the BullDog buggy body to the test at the Silver State Race in Vegas this weekend.

Pro-Line rep Aaron Arndt is at it again! This time he has turned his Axial Honcho into a lean mean crawling machine!

Aaron used the 1970 F-100 body, Light Bar, 1.9” Flat Iron tires and 1.9” Titus bead-loc wheels on his rig.

For a different look, Aaron topped off his crawler with the Blazer body!

Lookin Good Aaron! 

Ty Tessmann has been spending some time at Pro-Line this past week and took a little detour to Leduc’s (Curt, Todd and Kyle) race shop to check out the latest short course truck technology. It was here that the racers shared their passion for racing of all types. Ty was even offered the chance for a test fit into the driver seat of Todd’s PRO 2.

Check out the latest Savage XL project put together by Pro-Line Representative Aaron Arndt!

Aaron fit his truck with the Pro-Line 2007 Chevy® Silverado™ body and light bar.

He also adapted his Savage XL using an aftermarket 17mm hex adaptor (not available from Pro-Line) added the new Tech 5 wheels and Big Joe tires.

Looks Great Aaron!

I would have never imagined how fast the short course truck class would become so popular here in Southern California as it has in the past year. I’ve been racing my Jammin SC for the past three or four months now around all the tracks in So Cal, from smooth indoor tracks to huge loamy 1:8 off road tracks with monster size jumps. I mainly race at my home track Hot Rod Hobbies in Santa Clarita, CA. We normally have 80-100 entries on a Tuesday night and 70% of those entries are short course trucks. The indoor tracks that I race at are very similar to Hot Rod’s in regards to the entries, so I don’t think this class is going anywhere but becoming even more popular, thanks to the product Pro-Line produces and the manufactures of the trucks!

I’ve been having a blast racing these trucks and I honestly believe its been helping my driving in the 1:8 nitro classes as well. Below is a link to many of my races around So Cal racing my short course truck.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mrbirdman100&search_type=&aq=f

 Best Regards,

Chad Bradley

This past weekend the 4^th annual Ice Breaker was held at Indy RC World in Garland, TX.  Even though the turn out was a little lighter than in years past that didn’t stop the talent level from showing up in full force. The track surface at Indy always provides great and fast heads up racing. With a smooth, grooved and consistent surface lap times were very close and one mistake could easily loose you half a track if a marshal couldn’t get to you quickly.

In qualifying it was the Ryan Lutz show and with top qualifying honors in both truck and buggy he was the likely favorite for when the mains rolled around. My buggy and truck were working well from day one of arriving and I knew that if I could get my tire choices dialed in then I stood a good chance of having great success, Indy was usually a good venue for me and I always seem to be fast there. In buggy I could never seem to have that one clean run but still I managed a respectable rd. 3 and would set my self up 3^rd on the grid for the main less than half a second from 2^nd.

In Truck qualifying I never quite had the correct tire choice until the last round in which I TQ’ed coming with in tenths of a second of Ryan Lutz’s TQ time therefore securing 2^nd on the grid and raising my confidence going into the main. Through out qualifying more and more rubber was building up on the smooth surface giving the track more traction, which can be good or bad. On M3 Revolvers my car was a little too hooked up so I tried M2’s in the A-main warm-up and if I didn’t stay in the groove then I got loose real quick. I decided to go with the M3 Revolver with the closed cell foam so hopefully it would keep the rubber from stretching and I would have good traction through out the main. In truck I decided to go with M3 Calibers knowing that when I wore down the top layer of the pin then the tire would really come in and be good on the high bite surface.

In the truck main, TQ, Lutz suffered early problems, which would take him off the track for repairs to get back into the race. I took full advantage as I lead from lap one and even though I was getting some early pressure from Team Pro-Line driver Derek Guidry I eventually pulled away, only having to be marshaled once in the 45 minute final. I would go on to take the win leading from wire to wire with Derek Guidry finishing 2^nd to make it a 1 – 2 finish for Pro-Line.

In the buggy main Lutz again suffered early problems when his motor cut in the first corner off the start. Team Pro-Line driver Kyle Skidmore, who was 2^nd in qualifying, got caught up with Lutz when his motor cut allowing me to make a move to get around them to take the lead. Skidmore worked his way through field fast to eventually catch me and through out the 45 minute final we swapped the lead multiple times giving the crowd a great show. With 5 minutes remaining in the main Skidmore had a 5 second advantage on me so I began to push harder and harder to catch him. With 30 seconds to go in the race while on our last lap I had regained the lead but it was not to be. I clipped a pipe forcing me to swing wide in a corner and that was all Skidmore needed to regain and take the win with myself finishing 2^nd, again making it a 1 – 2 finish for Pro-Line.   

Jason – Buggy – M3 Revolvers, Low pro air filter, closed cell foams
                Truck – M3 Calibers, Low pro air filter, Bull Dog  truck body
 
Kyle – M2 Revolvers
 
Derek Guidry – Buggy – M3 Calibers
                               Truck – M3 Calibers, Bull Dog AE Body