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

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

Well after a few days of recuperating from the past week in Arizona, I thought I would let you all know how my week went at the Nitro Pit for the 11th annual Dirt Nitro Challenge! After doing 1 lap on the track I think everyone knew we were in for a looonnggg week! The track layout was one of the most difficult tracks any of us had ever raced on. And if you were watching the first round of practice I bet you could tell. Even the best of the best were crashing 2-3 times a lap.

By the time they got to the truck main Saturday night the track had about a 2-foot lane that was decent, anything outside of that wasn’t pretty. But it was the same for all of us. I was up to 4th in the first 5 minutes of the race before getting hammered by another driver, (won’t say any names), but it knocked me wayyy down the standings to 8th, I battled back to the top 5 and then my steering servo started going out, ran about 20 mins with very little steering, eventually pulling off at the 36 minute mark and ending up 12th overall. =/ But I was still very happy about even making the big show with all the tough competition. In truck, I ran M3 Hole Shot VTR’s in qualifying and for the main event.

Sunday rolled around and yet again, we arrived to the track and it was a total mud pit, they even changed the layout a little to avoid some of the muddy sections. But we still raced in it and by the time the Buggy A came around the 2-foot groove was back and the show went on. I worked my way up to 5th again was in a good battle with 3 other drivers for the 5th spot until I made a mistake and got pushed back to the battle for 8th. I ended up finishing 13th after the 45 minute final. Not exactly how I hoped my mains would have gone but all in all, it was a very good weekend.

For buggy, I ran M3 Hole Shots in the first 2 rounds of qualifying, for the 3rd round I ran M4 Hole Shots because it was at night and all the moisture came back to the surface. In the main event I ran M3 Bow-Ties because the length of the main and the track conditions were a little different with all the rain.

Pro-Line tires were by far the fastest tires on the track all week long. My cars were hooked up from day 1 and I felt I had the edge in tires over other competitors all weekend long and it showed on the track!

I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all my sponsor’s who support me with what I need to be competitive at these races. I could not do it without you! I can’t wait to see how the rest of 2010 turns out.

Thank you for your support,

Levi Jackson

The 2nd Annual Snow Trophy race for Nitro Off-road cars in St. Johann/Pg in Austria took place on Feb 20-21st! The event saw perfect weather, a perfect track with snow and a lot of action all around! 3 classes where raced:

Truggy –

1. Mikie Klausner Mugen/Novarossi/Pro-Line
2. Michael Selner Mugen/Novarossi/ Pro-Line
3. Hannes Salchegger Associated/Novarossi/ Pro-Line

Buggy –

1. Michael Klausner sen Mugen/Novarossi/ Pro-Line

2. Daniel Schmiederer HB/LRP/VTEC

3. Christian Gruenbacher LRP/LRP/VTEC

Monster Truck –

1. Josef Fenninger Traxxas/Novarossi/ Pro-Line
2. Christian Bartacek Traxxas/TRX/ Pro-Line

3. Christian Brachmaier HPI/LRP/ Pro-Line 

Just wanted to let everyone know that Pro-Line had a good weekend at the Motorama race in the expert classes.

 I Tq’d Expert Nitro buggy but finished 6th in the final due to many varying things.

I qualified 2nd in Electric buggy and Won the main.

I qualified 4th in Expert truck and Won the main in that class also.

Electric buggy….

TQ…..Phillip Atondo

1st……Myself (Odonnell/Pro-line) Using M3 Calibers

2nd….Phillip Atondo (Losi/AKA)

3rd….JR Mitch (AE/JConcepts)

Expert Nitro buggy….

TQ……Myself Using M3 Calibers

1st…Phillip Atondo (Losi/AKA)

2nd….Jason Ashton (Mugen/AKA)

3rd…Taylor Peterson (Mugen/AKA)

Expert truck….

TQ…Jason Ashton

1st…Myself (Odonnell/Pro-line) using VTR Hole Shot M3

2nd…Phillip Atondo (Losi/AKA)

3rd…JR Mitch (AE/JConcepts)

Thank you,

Barry Baker

Congratulations to Pro-Line’s Ty Tessmann who qualified 1st at the IFMAR Worlds warm up race in Thailand! Ty used the Pro-Line Hole-Shot M3 and V2 wheels! Great work Ty!