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January 9, 2019

Yeah Racing introduce new YD2 series optionals

Made for Yokomo’s popular YD2 and YD2S RWD drift cars are Yeah Racing’s new graphite vertical top deck and aluminium steering knuckles. Starting with the top deck set, the construction will provide large amounts of forward traction whilst retaining cornering grip. The lateral grip generated by the chassis can be fine-tuned by either adding or removing the centre stiffener posts. Integrated is a high centre of gravity ESC mount on the vertical top deck set.

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January 7, 2019

Corner Speed RC EU limited edition turnbuckle tool

Corner Speed RC and MonacoRC have introduced the EU limited edition turnbuckle tool that will fit Xray T4’15 to ’19 as well as Yokomo BD8’18 and BD9 kits. Base on the very popular previous variant, the new tool features a laser engraved logo for professional looks. Two marking letters – X and Y – representing Xray and Yokomo have also been added, making it easier to identify the two different ball cup holder slots. Every single tool has been manually matched for the smoothest operation. Even more special, MonacoRC will offer a limited free custom name engraving service for the first buyers.

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January 2, 2019

Rusti Design YZ-4 SF carbon fibre shock towers

French brand Rusti Design has introduced new carbon fibre shock towers for the Yokomo YZ-4 SF 4WD buggy. Both are machined from matte finish carbon fibre and they sport an updated and unique design with a pocketed RD logo and additional machining for a low weight and increased stability. The shock stays however utilise the same geometry as the stock parts and they are available now.

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January 1, 2019

Cavalieri gets Yokomo ride for 2019 and beyond

Yokomo have announced the signing of former Team Associated driver, Ryan Cavalieri to their factory team. The 4-times World, 28-times ROAR National, and 4-times Reedy Race Invitational Champion left long-time sponsors Team Associated at the end of 2018 following a very fruitful campaign. Cav’s official Yokomo debut is next week at the 2019 CRCRC Winter Midwest Championships at The Ohio RC Factory and in the meantime he has the following to say:

I am really excited to join the Yokomo Race Team for 2019 and beyond. I would like to thank Yokomo President Tom Yokobori, Minoru Aso, & Joe Pillars for the great communication during this process. I am really looking forward to working with Yokomo Engineer Shin Adachi and also very good friend Ryan Maifield. Ryan and I have had allot of success working together in the past and I can’t wait to do it again!

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

December 31, 2018

Yokomo welcomes Harley Yoshii

Yokomo has announced the signing of top Northwest driver Harley Yoshii to their 2019 USA factory race team. Harley is located in Olympia, Washington and extremely well known in the Northwest as Tacoma R/C Raceway’s top gun. Harley will make his official Yokomo debut at the 2019 Reedy International Off-Road Race of Champions in just a few short weeks with his Muchmore powered Yokomo rides on JConcepts tires.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

December 31, 2018

Randy Caster joins Yokomo

Yokomo have announced the signing of Mr. 1up Racing himself, Randy Caster to their factory race team. Randy is well known throughout the R/C community for his great attention to detail with car set-ups as well as his racing. Randy will be leading the way for the Yokomo USA On-Road Team and everyone at Yokomo is really looking forward to working with him. Randy saids:

I’d like to start by thanking Yokomo President Tom Yokobori, Minoru Aso, & Joe Pillars for this great opportunity! Yokomo was my very first chassis sponsor back when I ran the original MR4TC-BD, so it feels like I’m back home on the Yokomo team! My BD9 went together flawlessly and the precision of this car is second to none. I can’t wait to get it on the track very soon!

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

December 28, 2018

T-Works BD9 2mm carbon fibre upper deck

Coming from T-Works and made for the Yokomo BD9 touring car is a 2mm carbon fibre upper deck. Of an updated shape, the full-face top deck comes without cut-outs, meaning it will offer greater flex resistance for an overall harder chassis setting compared to the stock upper deck. Using the part will come in handy especially when running the carbon fibre chassis in higher grip conditions.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

December 27, 2018

Yokomo YZ-2 series aluminium servo arm

Yokomo have released an aluminium servo arm for the YZ-2 series buggies and trucks. Machined from high-quality material and coming black anodised and with machined silver edge details the servo horn improves steering emphasis and feeling by greatly reducing overall flex compared to a composite arm. At 15.5mm length the arm also has the perfect geometry for the YZ-2 buggies and YZ-2T truck and it is available in 23T specification for Sanwa and KO Propo servos and also as 25T variant for Yokomo and Futaba servos.

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