Yeah Racing have introduced a combined servo and gyro mount for the Yokomo YD2 drift car. The item is machined from high-quality aluminium and it comes black anodised, with silver edge details and engraved logos. The sturdy design ensures a solid base for the steering servo while the upper gyro compartment allows to mount most industry-standard car gyros.
Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]
Yokomo have announced another big signing this year to the Yokomo USA race team with JP Richards. Over the past couple years, JP has put together an impressive racing resume, driving for Team Durango and TLR, that would be hard to match. JP has dominated the racing scene in the Midwest, while also making the highly contested 2WD Modified Buggy A-main events at the past two ROAR 1/10 Electric Off-Road Nationals. JP will make his official Yokomo debut with the World Championship Winning YZ-2 DTM 2WD buggy and YZ-4 SF 4WD buggy next week at the 2017 JConcepts Indoor National series finale at Speed RC in North Carolina.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
Coming from Schelle Racing Innovations and made for the World Championship winning Yokomo YZ-2 DTM Maifield Edition buggy is a complete set of ceramic ball bearings. The set contains 14 ceramic bearings and eight Onyx steering bearings with the ceramic metal shield bearings are part of the Black Diamond series which means they are for all-out, spare no expense racing.
Source: Schelle Racing Innovations [schelleracing.com]
T-Works have introduced a graphite spur gear plate for the Yokomo BD8 cars. The machined carbon fibre plate will reinforce the mounting screw area of the gear for less wobble and increased transmission efficiency. The plate includes four suitable, gold-coloured fasteners.
Floating Master have introduced their new RC tooling block, a multifunctional tool that combines a bulkhead alignment block, a gear differential workbench and a soldering jig. The bulkhead alignment function is usable with the Tamiya TRF419X and 419XWS, Xray T4 2015 to 2017, as well as the Yokomo BD7 2015 and 2016 and BD8. In addition to this do multiple machined holes allow to hold gear differentials during building, setup and maintenance while dual 4mm and 5mm holes take bullet-type connectors during soldering. The part is machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium, it comes black anodised and with light green edge details.
Coming for Yokomo’s World Championship winning YZ-2 platform are two new titanium screw kits from Lunsford. Made specifically for the DTM version, two sets are available. The 70-pieces top kit includes all needed 3mm hardware for the upper side of the vehicle while the 26-piece bottom side kit includes a total of 26 fasteners for the lower part of the buggy. All are made from US-made Grade 5 titanium for a low weight, high stability and exceptional corrosion resistance.
View the bottom screw set here
Yokomo have announced the return of Germany’s Yannic Prümper to their factory team. Yannic grew up using Yokomo cars and buggies and he now comes back to the iconic Japanese manufacturer following a stint with other brands. Prümper will use the BD8-2018, YZ-2 and YZ-4SF platforms in his upcoming campaign that will see attendances at events such as the ETS, EOS and major races in Europe. Yannic says:
I would like to thank Team Yokomo for giving again the opportunity to use their excellent products. It feels good to be back in that Team where my RC carrier started and I grow up. I‘ll do my best in the future to deliver the best results!
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
Yokomo have announced another big signing to their US race team with Max Flurer. Max is very well known in the industry as a great guy who works extremely hard and can lay it down with the best of them. Max began testing the YZ-2 DTM 2WD buggy last month where he instantly found success. Max went onto take a podium finish at his first race with the car in the 2WD Modified Buggy class at round 4 of the JConcepts Indoor National Series at RC Excitement in Massachusetts. Then a few weeks later Max took the impressive 2WD Modified Buggy win at the 2017 Masters of Dirt Race hosted by Beach RC & Hobbies in South Carolina.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
