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June 26, 2012

JQ Products THECar ready to race buggy

JQ Products have announced the release of THECar in RTR (Ready to Race) form. They wanted to create a new standard of performance for 1:8th RTR Buggies and by clever design and production arrangements have been able to keep the specification of this vehicle high, and as close to the Pro version as possible. The servos and engine have been chosen based on their performance as well as their affordability. They wanted to make sure that the servos are strong and fast enough to be able to control the car, in a similar fashion to actual race cars with top of the line servos. Many RTRs have so slow and weak servos, that they are hard to drive for even experienced racers. This is not the case with this RTR, as the Savöx servos are strong and fast enough for the task. The engine is a standard pullstart RTR unit, and it has more than enough power for this super lightweight RTR, that only weights 3300g.

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June 1, 2012

Thunder Innovation THECar spring retainers

Thunder Innovation announce these aluminium shock spring retainer for JQ Product’s THECar. CNC-machined from aluminium and of a super lightweight design the retainers sport seven large diameter holes and six grooves that help to get the dirt out of the shocks while a 2mm raised collar keeps the springs in place even under severe racing conditions. The parts that are released under TI’s Alien brand are available in black and green colour.

Source: Thunder Innovation [thunderinnovation.com]

May 7, 2012

JQ Products THECar Yellow Edition

JQ Products have introduced THECar ‘Yellow Edition’ the follow up to their popular first buggy release. During the end of last year JQ was hard at work testing a lot of new ideas and able to improve the handling enough they felt they had to release a new car, the Yellow Edition. The changes have mostly been made in an effort to make THECar both faster, and easier to drive and include a new narrower more flexible chassis, new body shell, improved shocks and will come supplied with a number of extra tuning parts.

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April 13, 2012

Max Mört joins JQ factory team

10 year old Max Mört from Finland has joined the JQ Products factory team. Being part of the JQ family for a few years now the young Scandinavian has been able to secure a full factory team ride. Here is how it went down, in JQ’s own words:

[Max] … fits in perfectly with our brand, we have been looking for the right young drivers to support, drivers with passion, goals, and the right attitude. That is why we already support drivers like the Medjoubi brothers, Bradley Baird, Tanner Stees and Chris Marrale. And that is why I made this promise, because I knew, if I did forget, and lose this “bet” I would be winning anyway, maybe not right away, but in the future.

Source: JQ [jq-products.com]

March 23, 2012

JQ Products announce USA junior team

JQ Products have signed two young promising drivers from USA with multi year deals. Chris Marrale who owns the Palm Desert track, and the super fast fire extinguisher sized Tanner Stees from AZ. JQ look forward to seeing both drivers develop, along with THECar over the next few years.

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March 20, 2012

DJ Park wins Korean season opener

The 1/8 buggy season in Korea kicked off last weekend at Banwol Park Raceway and about 70 drivers from all over the country joined the race. The temperature was still around freezing point but the competition was hot. A total of 3 JQ drivers, DJ Park, Sun-Young Hwang and Ryan Lee, made to the A-Main final and fought for that first spot. Sun-Young Hwang, who chose to drive THECar for 2012 showed great performance in the qualifying rounds, but a big crash from behind at the start of final caused him broken throttle linkage. 20 minutes into the final, it was all about DJ Park, Jae-Kyun Kim and Ryan Lee. They were constantly swapping positions, but it was DJ Park who took the charge and took the win for JQ with JaeGyun Kim driving a Kyosho in 2nd and Ryan Lee with another JQ in 3rd.

Source: JQ [jq-products.com]

March 14, 2012

JQ machined shock absorber caps

JQ Products have officially released their new CNC machined shock absorber caps. These lightweight new units are made from a single piece of aluminium and are therefore much more durable than the standard steel and plastic kit combination.

Source: JQ [jq-products.com]

March 10, 2012

JQ Products THEClothing 2012

JQ Products introduce their 2012 clothing line including redesigned T-shirt and a new cap. The cap sports totally redesigned graphics while the shirts come with an updated logo and are available in two variants and white or black colour. During the Summer additional goodies may see the light of the day in the form of additional shirts, new hoddies and a jacket.

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