What an amazing weekend full of action packed racing at the 2015 JConcepts Spring INS in Tacoma, Washington. Home of NW legend, Scott Brown, the owner of one of the finest indoor clay offroad tracks in the region hosted the JConcepts Spring INS for the second year in a row. From qualifying and all the … Continue reading
The 2nd round of qualifying has proven to be just as exciting as the first. With one less qualifier to work with, the intensity seems to rise as we approach the day’s end. Racers have 4 qualifiers and only need to keep their best 2 to set them up for Sunday’s A-mains. Once again, the … Continue reading
With almost 330 entries for the event, SMACTRAC has once again kicked off the 2015 JConcepts Indoor National Series in style. With seeding wrapped up for the day, racers have headed home to recharge their batteries for tomorrow’s intense 3 rounds of ultra competitive qualifying. The layout has been challenging to all racers of all … Continue reading
After huge amounts of pressure and coming out with his 1st major win for TLR/Orion, Ryan Maifield has his setups available via TLR’s website. Not only for his 2wd, but also his 4wd, which I thought was the more impressive car of the 3 he ran that weekend. I’d like to thank RedRC for doing the … Continue reading
Finally! Something all the TLR guys have been waiting for if you didn’t already do your own custom version using RB6 bellcranks or buy the Exotek v.1 or v.2 crank system. This design has been in the works since last year around Nationals time, late August, and now finally slated to be release August 2014. I’m … Continue reading
Round 2 of the JConcepts Winter Champs Series was held last Friday on January 17th, 2014 at Top Gear Hobbies in Clackamas, Oregon. As this was the 2nd race on the current layout, most locals had a lot of time to dial in their rides to hopefully go even faster than they did in round … Continue reading
I’m excited to review and test this nice, little product from Rocket-RC called the brass squat block. Specializing in mainly the TLR 22 product line, Rocket-RC has a list of upgrades to help increase the performance of the TLR cars beyond TLR’s own great list of upgrades. As of now, they are direct mail order … Continue reading
This weekend marks the start of the Marty Barnes Pacific Northwest winter race series for 2013-2014. I’m very excited as I will be covering each race to the best of my abilities to hopefully increase the media coverage here in the NW region. So check this site for race updates this weekend. This is a … Continue reading
I’m going to just come out and say it. This was the FASTEST 2wd drive at the 2013 Clash race. Not only did it TQ, Dustin had the pace to win. If you watch A2, Dustin and the speed and then some. If you want proof watch the A2 race as the battle was epic! … Continue reading
JConcepts brings a new motor plate for the RB6, B4.2, and TLR’s 22 (also works with the truck variant as well). It has special kind of milling that is suppose to be stronger than the original factory motor plates. In the past, traditional lightened motor plates usually have long CNC work done to them, however … Continue reading
