I know its not racing news, but many of us started out with Traxxas products and I just saw a post on another forum that Tim Roberts posts on that he has left Traxxas.
He was the designer of many of their products including the Revo, E-Revo, Slash and many of their new products.
http://www.revo-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6544
Wonder how this will effect any products they have in the works.