Team Durango UK have announced the appointment of Adam Skelding as the Team Driver’s Manager for Team Durango UK. Adam has many years’ experience in RC racing and engineering and he will be a valuable asset to the team. Adam will be attending all of the remaining national events in the UK, and will welcome any questions you may have about Team Durango.
Team Durango have released further details about the new DEX410 buggy together with the release date and pricing. According to Durango, the buggy was originally conceived pre ‘credit-crunch’ and is a no-compromise specification with a huge number of new features for the class, all of which is reflected in the price. Team Durango considered not launching this high spec car and launching a dumbed-down version instead, however racer interest has been so high, and running costs seem to be much lower than current cars out there, that Team Durango will push forward with the ultimate spec as the launch car. The company will however later release the buggy in a more cost friendly version, called the DEX410R which is expected to launch around September with a standard specification and perhaps even the class standard ball differentials. Expect the DEX410R to have a street price of around $390 (€306, £270), while the ultimate launch spec DEX410, expected to be released in late June, will be around $650 in the shops, which is around €510 or £450 in Europe when sales taxes are added.
Following on from the sneak preview of the DEX410 production model we brought you earlier this week, Team Durango have released more pictures of their new 4WD 1/10 off-road buggy. In the photos we can see how this new racing buggy can accommodate both LiPo and Sub-C cells, as well as step by step images showing the super-quick slipper gear removal. We expect a full press release, detailing prices and availability, very soon.
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Following on from our exclusive first look at the new Durango DEX410, we showed you back in February, comes the first production photos of the near final buggy. Expected for release at the end of June this year, the photos show the super slim chassis, stylish production body shell and, a first for the 1/10th electric class, a ‘tuneable’ zero-slip geared differential. Companies interested in distribution or retail of Team Durango products should contact sales[at]team-durango.com
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Red RC was given the chance to take pictures of the first working Team Durango DEX410 buggy. The car which is designed by Gerd Strenge and Michael Vollmer is in its final developing stages and will soon be released by Team Durango. We got in touch with Michael Vollmer who was kind enough to let us take proper pics of this exciting new buggy.
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First seen last February when it was originally shown as the S500 from Serpent, the project has since been taken back under the Team Durango name and following some more tweaks to get it ready for the production the new buggy looks finally ready for release. These first closeup shots show a lot of similarities to the S500 buggy, but we believe that the car has received a pretty major makeover, confirmation of which will only come when we finally see the finished product.
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Team Durango have officially announced that long-term team driver Jörn Neumann will not be part of the team from January 1st 2009 onward. Having won multiple national titles as well as a European title, together with some of the most important invitational races in both electric and nitro classes, Jörn was an integral part of Team Durango for the last couple of years. Team Durango wishes Jörn all the best and thanks him for the successful years of racing as a team. In a separate statement from Jörn he had the following to say:
I want to say thank you to Team Durango for the last couple of years. And a very big thank you to Gerd Strenge for his support. But sometimes changes happen and I search for new tasks.
As reported earlier, the place in the team will be filled by Martin Achter.
Team Durango have announce Martin Achter as a new team member for 2009. Martin will run both the electric and nitro range of off-road buggies as well as the secret nitro truggy project that is in the making. 19 years old Martin brings in the vast experience of nearly 10 years of racing and beside the Team Durango drive Martin is backed up with a sponsorship Power-Save-Racing which products he will proudly support throughout the 2009 season. Martin had the following to say:
I am very proud to become a member of such a successful team like Team Durango and I am looking forward to race the new DNX408 and DEX410 buggies in the upcoming season. I’d like to take the opportunity and would like to thank my former team for the past two and very successful years.
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