At the Toy Fair 2016 in Nuremberg Team Orion have presented the Touch Duo V-Max charger with an updated firmware to charge the new LiPo HV (3.8V) batteries. Now all owners of the older Touch Duo model (Part# ORI30235, ORI3026, ORI30237, ORI30238, ORI30239, ORI30240) can update their charger with this new LiPo HV firmware. To download the new firmware update, register your product on myteamorion.com and find the latest firmware directly after registration.
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This past weekend the 2016 ROAR Electric Off-road Nationals were held at the HobbyPlex in Omaha, Nebraska. Team Orion’s Dakotah Phend and “the Ryans” Maifield and Cavalieri have shown their driving skills winning all four Modified Classes. In the 2WD Modified class Dakotah Phend takes the TQ and the win in front of Ty Tessmann in second and Ryan Maifield in third. In the 4WD Modified class Dakotah Phend takes again the TQ but his teammate Ryan Maifield wins the race while Ty Tessmann takes the third position. In the Short Course class Ryan Cavalieri takes the TQ and the win ahead Ryan Maifield in second and Alex Vanderbeek in third. Finally in the Truck Modified Dakotah Phend takes his 3rd TQ and he win the race in front of Dustin Evans and Jared Tebo second and third respectively.
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Last weekend was held the EFRA GP at the MK Eskil’s 1/8 Offroad track in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The MK Eskil’s track will host the Euros in 2017. Team Orion’s David Ronnefalk TQ’d and won the the race by more than 2 laps over Marcus Sandberg and Oskar Levin second and third respectively.
“After having had a great semi I went on to start from pole, and though I did two mistakes early on in the first two laps of the final, I was able to pull away and give myself a confident gap down to Marcus in second. Car, engine and tires worked really well in the final and in the end I got almost 2,5 laps over 2nd place! Super happy to finally get the win again after a few tough races!” – David Ronnefalk
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Team Orion have announced that these popular competition Li-Po Carbon Pro Ultra batteries listed below are now ROAR Approved just in time for the 2016 ROAR 1/10 Electric Off-Road Nationals that will take place in less than 2 weeks away.
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The 2016 HRH Shootout was held this past weekend at Hot Rod Hobbies in Santa Clarita, California. Located just minutes away from World Famous Six Flags Magic Mountain, Hot Rod Hobbies has been hosting the Shootout for now its 19th year! Team Orion would also bring one of our strongest Teams to date consisting of: Ty Tessmann, Ryan Cavalieri, Ryan Maifield, Jared Tebo, Dustin Evans, Matt Chambers, Tanner Denney, & Tanner Day. With temperatures reaching into the mid 90’s, it was going to be a great weekend of racing!
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Last weekend was held the 2016 Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout in Saugus, California. The TQ was taken by Jared Tebo in the 2wd Modified buggy and Modified truck, by Ryan Maifield in the 4wd Modified buggy and by Ryan Cavalieri in the 2wd Modified SC. In 2wd Modified buggy class, despite his TQ, Tebo will be unable to maintain the advantage and it will be Ty Tessmann who took the win in front of Tebo and Cavalieri. In 4wd Modified buggy class Maifield will continue to dominate and he will win in front of Dustin Evans and Tessmann. Tebo and Cavalieri will confirm their speed in qualifying by winning the race in Modified truck for Tebo and Modified Short Course for Cavalieri. Tebo finished ahead of Cavalieri and Naoto Matsukura while Cavalieri beat Matt Chambers and Joe Pillars.
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This past weekend was held the 2016 Willamette Valley Classic hosted by Dave’s RC Tracks in Hubbard, Oregon. In the 2wd Modified Buggy class, Tanner Day would go onto TQ both rounds of qualifying to secure the overall TQ. Joe Pillars would take the impressive win in A-Main #1 with Day finishing a few seconds back in 2nd. Day would then go onto take the wins in A-Main #2 & A-Main #3 just ahead of Pillars and Tom Davies to take his 1st Championship of the weekend.
Despite some serious gossip and rumours of Team Orion purchasing / saving the embattled HotBodies brand, RCNews took the time to dig and can reveal it is in fact not true…
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