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January 17, 2017

Yokomo confirm Ryan Maifield signing

Finally confirming what we already know, Yokomo have announced that top-ranked offroad specialist Ryan Maifield has joined their team. Bringing with him a wealth of knowledge and experience in all facets of offroad racing, Ryan will play an integral role in helping Yokomo develop their vehicles to be better suited to North American style tracks, and serve as brand ambassador attending numerous events throughout the US, Europe and Asia. Having tested extensively in the build up to this weekend’s Reedy Offroad Race of Champions, Ryan had the following to say:

The Yokomo YZ-2 and YZ-4 have performed flawlessly in my testing, both cars respond very well to small changes making the cars easy to get dialed in. The precision and quality of the Yokomo parts are second to none which makes my life easier and lets me focus on tuning and racing instead of constant maintenance.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

January 12, 2017

Kilic brothers join Tonisport & Yokomo

Tonisport have announced the addition of Burak and Berkan Kilic to their team. Avid 1/8th off-road drivers, campaigning Agama buggies and trucks, the two up and coming youngsters and former German National Junior champions will use Yokomo kits and MR33 option parts in the 1/10th electric classes during the 2017 season that will see appearances at all major national and also select international events.

Source: Tonisport [tonisport.de]

January 11, 2017

Team Bomber YRX12 high-capacity V2 side dampers

Japanese company Team Bomber has introduced the high-capacity V2 side tube damper conversion kit for Yokomo’s YRX12 pan car. Designed to replace the somewhat small friction units on Yokomo’s latest 1/12th pan car, the set includes new high-capacity dampers that not only offer an increased load capacity for improved high-speed and corner handling but they also reduce maintenance time as they need less frequent rebuilding. Included with the conversion also come updated carbon fibre braces as well as mounting hardware.

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January 10, 2017

HiroFactory YRX12 reactive castor mounts

Coming from HiroFactory and made for the Yokomo YRX12 1/12th scale pan car are reactive castor upper arm mounts. The machined aluminium parts set the upper arms at an angle which results in increasing kingpin angles during cornering and thus improved steering response. The mounts come black anodised and in sets of two.

Source: HiroFactory [hirofactory.jp]

January 9, 2017

Yokomo sign Christopher Krapp to their factory team

Yokomo have announced the signing with 3-times IFMAR World Championship finalist, Reedy Race podium finisher and German National Champion, Christopher Krapp. Christopher will campaign Yokomo’s BD8 electric touring car kit with immediate effect and he will also use the company’s off-road buggies from May when his contract with Schumacher expires. In addition the young German also signed to run Yokomo’s own Racing Performer electric in all of his rides. Christopher says:

First I want to thank my recent car sponsor Team Tamiya/TRF for their support over the last 2 years. It was not the longest time together but we had a very productive time and achieved great results as a team. Personally I want to thank Takayuki Kono and Kiyo Suzuki for being my mechanics in that time. Also I want to thank Team Orion and especially Oscar Jansen for their support in the last decade. They have been supporting me with all electronics since I started RC and I can’t thank them enough for all their efforts! Now it is time for a new challenge and I am very happy to be part of Team Yokomo. I will also use their line of electronics for my Onroad and Offroad cars throughout 2017 and 2018. I will start using the touring car and electronics from now on followed by the offroad cars from 1st May 2017. I can’t wait to work with the whole Team and my first big event will be the TITC in February. See you on track!

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

December 29, 2016

Yokomo Racing Performer drift car wheels

Yokomo have released two new Racing Performer drift car wheels. Available in a 5-spoke and a 6-spoke variant the wheels offer high rigidity and exceptional precision, resulting in more overall grip. The wheels come in 6mm and 8mm offset variants, in black or white colour, with the 5-spoke rim being available now and the 6-spoke variant hitting stores mid-January.

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December 28, 2016

Yokomo CRT 1/12th scale foam tyres

Coming from Yokomo are the CRT foam tyres for 1/12th scale pan car racing. They are unique the a way that they utilise different diameter foam rings, allowing to use the inner ring as it is while the outer ring need to be cut to 115mm of length before using it on 37mm diameter wheels for practice purposes. Each foam ring is 3mm thick meaning the tyres are nearly race ready to current standards. The CRT foams are available in several compounds such as the L rubber for high-grip CRC carpet, the intermediate R variant for all-round and low traction use while the S compound is best suited for mid-traction ETS-style carpet. The L and S rubber is available for the front and rear while the R compound comes for the rear end exclusively and each set includes a total of eight rings, four small and four large.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

December 26, 2016

T-Works 1/10th touring car aluminium shock nuts

T-Works have announced the release of aluminium shock nuts for 1/10th scale touring cars such as the Yokomo BD7 and BD8 as well as the Xray T4. The spring preload adjusters are machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium, they come black anodised and feature a laser-etched marking to make equal left-to-right adjustment easy. On top of this each nut sports individual corner markings for easy identifications of the left and right, front and rear shocks. Included comes a set of O-rings to securely retain the adjusted spring tension.

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