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Team HB at the Worlds: 2WD Practice Mon, 5th Oct 2015

Today was Free and Controlled Practice at the worlds famous Yatabe Arena Worlds Championship and that means the new Hot Bodies D216 made its very first public appearance on astroturf. As we anticipated, not having attended the Warm-up event back in June the Hot Bodies team here at the Worlds (Ty Tessman and David Ronnefalk) had a sort of slow start. Here is what they had to say: Ty: "Today was a bit of a struggle. We tried to...Continue Reading

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Team HB's Teemu Leino at the EFRA 1/10th IC Euros Thu, 3rd Sep 2015

Team HB factory driver Teemu Leino is at the huge EFMOD racing facility in Izmir, Turkey, on the west coast of the country at the EFRA 1/10th Touring IC European Championships. He's racing the HB R10 car and stopped to give us his views on the week so far ahead of the qualifying rounds, which started today. Teemu says, "Today it's going pretty good, qualifying is just about to start for us and the facility is one of the nicest in...Continue Reading

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David Ronnefalk Nearly Takes First-Ever EFRA E-Buggy Euros! Fri, 21st Aug 2015

This weekend I was at the first ever 1/8 European Championships in Fehring, Austria. Last time I was here was back in 2012 when they had both the 1/8 and 1/10 Euros. I liked the track back then and looked forward to go back again. They changed the track a little bit from then and I must say it was better before but anyway it is a good track! Friday was first day of racing and we all got three rounds of Free Practice before having two ControlledContinue Reading

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Team HB Reports from the Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout Mon, 27th Jul 2015

Drew Moller's race report: Event Date: 7/16/15 - 7/19/15 This Past weekend was the 18th annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout. The weekend started out with practice on Thursday. Knowing I had a lot of work to do to get my cars dialed in I got on the track as soon as possible. As the day progressed my cars got better and better. The new D216 was progressing each and every run and I felt very confident in its ability to perform even at such an early...Continue Reading

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Team HB Race Reports from the ROAR Fuel Off-Road Nationals! Fri, 3rd Jul 2015

Ty Tessmann's Race Report: This past weekend we attended the ROAR 1/8 Fuel Offroad Nationals held at the beautiful Silver Dollar Rc Raceway in Chico, California. Kevin Jelich and his crew did a great job on the track, it held up really well the whole weekend and stayed very consistent. Since I had been to this track for the warmup race a few weeks earlier, I had a base setup to start with and had some idea of what I would be running on. During...Continue Reading

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Team HB at European Buggy Championship Warm-Up in Italy Thu, 14th May 2015

This year 1/8 buggy Euro's will be in Sacile, Italy. Track and facility is very nice and its placed next to the alps so view is nice as well. From HB HPI racing we had David Ronnefalk, Reno Savoya and me attending for this race. Practice was on friday and saturday half day so we had many practice rounds as there was not that many entries this year at warm up. Even there was not as many entries as past years most of the top drivers were...Continue Reading