HPI HB PRO 5
#736
Tech Champion
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Freddy Sudhoff is also out at hpi
http://www.redrc.net/2016/02/freddy-...-leaves-hpihb/
http://www.redrc.net/2016/02/freddy-...-leaves-hpihb/
shame to see good guys leave the team
#738
Tech Master
http://www.redrc.net/2016/02/jj-wang...ihb-departure/
Seems like the entire team is falling apart now.
If Groskamp goes, it will be the final nail in the coffin for HB's on-road program.
Seems like the entire team is falling apart now.
If Groskamp goes, it will be the final nail in the coffin for HB's on-road program.
#739
Tech Champion
iTrader: (30)
http://www.redrc.net/2016/02/jj-wang...ihb-departure/
Seems like the entire team is falling apart now.
If Groskamp goes, it will be the final nail in the coffin for HB's on-road program.
Seems like the entire team is falling apart now.
If Groskamp goes, it will be the final nail in the coffin for HB's on-road program.
seems like HPI/HB is doing away with the top-end on-road race team
#740
Tech Regular
It would be nice of HPI to make some sort of announcement and at least stop all the rumours. I was part of the UK team running the Pro 5 and was planning on running the D815 outdoors for nitro this year. I think that the car and buggy are fantastic but unfortunately all the support seems to be stopping and the international team is dissolving before our very eyes...
I feel for the guys and girls that work for HPI in the UK and Europe as well as the world as this must be a difficult time for them and their families and I really hope it works out.
But I think that HPI should at least say something...
I feel for the guys and girls that work for HPI in the UK and Europe as well as the world as this must be a difficult time for them and their families and I really hope it works out.
But I think that HPI should at least say something...
#741
Tech Master
It would be nice of HPI to make some sort of announcement and at least stop all the rumours. I was part of the UK team running the Pro 5 and was planning on running the D815 outdoors for nitro this year. I think that the car and buggy are fantastic but unfortunately all the support seems to be stopping and the international team is dissolving before our very eyes...
I feel for the guys and girls that work for HPI in the UK and Europe as well as the world as this must be a difficult time for them and their families and I really hope it works out.
But I think that HPI should at least say something...
I feel for the guys and girls that work for HPI in the UK and Europe as well as the world as this must be a difficult time for them and their families and I really hope it works out.
But I think that HPI should at least say something...
#742
Tech Regular
But the HPI drivers like Andy Moore, JJ etc. where all sponsored out of HPI Japan or wherever the main headquarters is surely?
#743
Tech Regular
I wouldn't count on HPI making any kind of public announcement, at least not one on their website that will be of any meaning. There have been a LOT of changes to HPI North America in the past 8-10 years and very little is released in the form of official public announcement, if any. It's usually info from people within the company that were let go or left that give a little more insight, for whatever reason.
HPI is the brand that got me into RC back in the early 90's, and the brand I tend to be loyal to, but they've been going downhill for quite some time now and that really sucks because they used to be among the best, arguably at one time THE best.
HPI is the brand that got me into RC back in the early 90's, and the brand I tend to be loyal to, but they've been going downhill for quite some time now and that really sucks because they used to be among the best, arguably at one time THE best.
#744
Tech Master
All the recent drivers that got let go were part of the EU division iirc. Not even sure if HPI Japan is involved at all in this. Their website was last updated in 2010, and the latest car is the TCX...
#745
The drivers left because there was no more money for the team. thats why only freddy was at ets rd 2.
there team drivers already needed to pay there own travel cost to the race's.
a brand that has team drivers the main reasson is to push the brand an push sales.
From what i see (at least over here in europe) it was just not paying off, because you have to try hard to find paying costumer that drives a Pro 5.
there team drivers already needed to pay there own travel cost to the race's.
a brand that has team drivers the main reasson is to push the brand an push sales.
From what i see (at least over here in europe) it was just not paying off, because you have to try hard to find paying costumer that drives a Pro 5.
#747
The drivers left because there was no more money for the team. thats why only freddy was at ets rd 2.
there team drivers already needed to pay there own travel cost to the race's.
a brand that has team drivers the main reasson is to push the brand an push sales.
From what i see (at least over here in europe) it was just not paying off, because you have to try hard to find paying costumer that drives a Pro 5.
there team drivers already needed to pay there own travel cost to the race's.
a brand that has team drivers the main reasson is to push the brand an push sales.
From what i see (at least over here in europe) it was just not paying off, because you have to try hard to find paying costumer that drives a Pro 5.
#748
Tech Master
I'm sure neobuggy knows more than we do, but a statement from them like this doesn't bode well " – no one knows what the future holds for Ty as an HPI / HB driver with the future of the company looking bleak, that said Kyosho have their own secret weapon… "
If Tessmann ever leaves HB(which I hope not)...
Worse case scenario is that HB will be dissolved and HPI will join the ranks of Traxxas as a full time basher/RTR company.
If Tessmann ever leaves HB(which I hope not)...
Worse case scenario is that HB will be dissolved and HPI will join the ranks of Traxxas as a full time basher/RTR company.
#749
By the way, HPI was the basher company at the beginning, and HotBodies was the competitive branch...
At some point, the strategy was so blurry (especially with the return of a Pro5 instead of a new TCX-something) that everybody lost his way...
Where I live, where HB Europe is located, a lot of people are running HPI/HB chassis, but at a national level, it is a totally different problem and only few categories are represented (like Nitro offroad)...
But I must admit that I'm very curious about what is happening by HPI headquarters now...
At some point, the strategy was so blurry (especially with the return of a Pro5 instead of a new TCX-something) that everybody lost his way...
Where I live, where HB Europe is located, a lot of people are running HPI/HB chassis, but at a national level, it is a totally different problem and only few categories are represented (like Nitro offroad)...
But I must admit that I'm very curious about what is happening by HPI headquarters now...
#750
Tech Regular
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By the way, HPI was the basher company at the beginning, and HotBodies was the competitive branch...
At some point, the strategy was so blurry (especially with the return of a Pro5 instead of a new TCX-something) that everybody lost his way...
Where I live, where HB Europe is located, a lot of people are running HPI/HB chassis, but at a national level, it is a totally different problem and only few categories are represented (like Nitro offroad)...
But I must admit that I'm very curious about what is happening by HPI headquarters now...
At some point, the strategy was so blurry (especially with the return of a Pro5 instead of a new TCX-something) that everybody lost his way...
Where I live, where HB Europe is located, a lot of people are running HPI/HB chassis, but at a national level, it is a totally different problem and only few categories are represented (like Nitro offroad)...
But I must admit that I'm very curious about what is happening by HPI headquarters now...