GQ America RC Racing Tires

New Sponsored Driver Signed!

2011-11-09T16:13:00.000-08:00

GQ America has signed Christian Lopez as one of the 1:8th Nitro On-Road Drivers. Christian is a young and upcoming driver in the Nitro ranks and had a very good 2011. Christian finished second in points at the California State series point races. In the third at SpeedWorld, Christian TQ's and took 1st place in the A main in the 1;8th class.

Christian does most of his racing in Southern California with the group from Greater LA track. For 2012 Christian is going to expand his horizons to some of the large races across the country. It looks at this time Christian will start the season by racing at the Winter Nationals held in Fort Myers Florida.

We welcome Christian to our team and wish him the very best of luck during his 2012 racing campaign.

Sam Felish

2011-10-28T11:02:00.000-07:00

Hello Racers,

October is just about over and November will bring many Toys for Tots races all around the milder climate parts of the country. However racing will be on cooler tracks in cooler weather for almost everyone. This means new challenges to your race car setups!

First, your engines will love the cooler weather. This is great because you will notice an increase in rpms and speed. The increase in power will alter your setups in how to get this power to the ground on cooler tracks with less grip! GQ Racing Tires has the answer for racers with their high technology "Soft Rim" tires.

Soft Rim doesn't mean a rim with softer plastic or thinner plastic as some brands try to have you believe. Those rims cause a tremdous problems in handling and setups. Stay away from those brands and you will not need to purchase asperin when running during the cooler weather.

GQ Racing tires "soft rims" is a technology developed by GQ's PHD staff. The outer portion of the rim is as stiff as their other Carbon or Pro Rims. The stiff outer portion allows the car to maintain speed on entrance and middle of the corner with consistent handling performance. From that outer rim point to the inner portion of the rim is where the plastic becomes softer. The thickness of the plastic is maintained. The planned softer plastic to the inner portion of the rim is done by a special formulation of plastic materials. Sounds expensive? Well actually the technology and the special formualtion has to be use with more costly plastic materials. Then the machinery to produce these rims has to be advanced high tech costly (very) production machines. This is why GQ Racing Tires is the only company in the world to produce the "Soft Rim" Technology. The soft innner portion of the rim has a controlled flex that will give the rear tires high traction under power coming out of turns and the fronts higher traction during the turn and when under power coming out of turns. Now here is the best part! These rims do not cost you any extra money! GQ Racing tires are the best value in the RC World today, tomorrow, and years from now. Try us You will like us!

Is this ultra traction with the soft rims noticeable? Yes it is. I don't care what level of skill you are as a driver traction in cold weather, bumpy tracks, loose tracks, and etc, will help your handling and your lap times. We are all racers and want to be faster. GQ Racing Tires gives you the selection in tire shores and in rims to make your car handle better and make you a better racer!

GQ uses the Soft Rim technology in Nitro 1:10th and 1:8th and electric 1:12th pan. We have most of these tire and rim selections in stock now. GQ Racing Tires in the USA is growing fast and we thank all of our loyal racers. We are increasing our inventories to try to be 100% in stock 100% of the time. We hope to at this point by 2012. We are now awaiting the arrival of the 1:12th tires in black rims, back up to our Nitro 1:10th, increase in inventory in M18Pro and F-1 Tires that fits Tamiya race cars and other similar F-1 cars.

Good Racing To All! Have Fun!

Electric Tires

2010-10-05T14:49:00.000-07:00

Good News!

All of our electric tires have come into stock and are ready to ship to racers! The selection included 1:10th EP Touring, 1:12th EP Pan, 1:18th M18 Pro and 1:18th M Tires.

Soon the 1:10th EP Touring Rubber tire will be released. These tires will revolutionize the RC Market when they come available. Keep checking this site or our regular website http://www.GQamerica.com for their introduction to the USA/Canada market place.

Have any questions? Please ask. We are always willing to help racers worldwide. Are you a top racer traveling to National events and looking for more sponsors? Please email your racing resume to info@teammarketingamerica.com.

Have Fun!

Fall And Winter Racing - Change Tires?

2010-09-17T15:28:00.000-07:00

Hello Racers,

Fall racing is around the corner and for those in the South, Southwest, and West, winter racing season is coming. So why is a tire distributor writing an article about the upcoming season of racing? What do tires have to do with the fall and winter racing?

Tires are actually very important topic for those racers taking outdoor action and battle during the fall and winter racing. And I don't know how many racers know that GQ Racing Tires are going into their second season of presenting a tire line especially designed for this time of the year. The tire line is for 1:10th Nitro Sedan cars and the line is called "Soft Rims" (AS).

I believe some of the lack of use of these tires last year is because erroneous information about what "Soft Rims" mean and how they are designed and work on the track. Of course competition companies love to offer misleading information because there is no RC tire manufacturer or company other than GQ that has the knowledge of plastic formulations and machinery to produce rims like GQ Racing Soft Rims. Most forget GQ is a huge plastic and rubber company (30 years) that is known worldwide for their expertise in developing formulations in plastics and rubbers.

So what is the soft rim?

The soft rim (AS) is designed to be used during cooler weather, bumpy tracks, and low traction tracks. The design is in the plastic formulation. The outer edge has the same hardness as our regular (A) rim. This ensures that the car can make and react as fast as our normal rims(A) in fast and slow turns. After the outer edge and moving to the inner edge, the plastic is made with a different plastic formulation that has a set percentage of softer material when formulated than our regular rims (A).

This plastic formulation allows the inner portion of the rim to have the correct amount of flex that allows when "on power" coming out of corners you have full contact patch on the ground for excellent grip and acceleration. This flex also gives racers excellent grip to make the turns faster (especially middle of corner) which means higher speeds at end of straights.

So when using the GQ Racing Soft Rims in cooler weather, bumpy tracks and low tractions tracks, speed will not be compromised as compared to using standard tires.

Hints:

1.) Try using combination of Soft Rims with standard tires. If the weather is cool enough to give you problems under quick acceleration but steering is still good, use the Soft rim in the rears only.

2.) When using the "Soft Rims", you use the same shores as you would under similar track conditions. Trying to just use regular tires by using softer shores doesn't work!! You just increase wear and run through your tires faster. This is just throwing money out the window. Soft Rims are the same cost as the regular rim tires.

If you have any questions please write to me and I will be happy to answer any questions you may have! Remember the only dumb question is the one not asked!!

Good Racing To All!

Mike Gee Signs With GQ Tires

2010-09-13T09:18:00.000-07:00

We are happy to announce that Mike Gee has signed with TMA Motorsports and GQ America to represent GQ racing tires during the 2010 and 2011 racing seasons. Mike is known for his great driving abilities in the 1:18th M18 Pro Class and 1:10th Nitro Sedan Class. Mike is known for always being very helpful to his fellow competitiors and willing to answer questions. So if you see Mike at the races, please stop by and say hello and ask him about his GQ racing Tires.

Electric Tires Now in USA

2010-09-13T09:05:00.000-07:00

We are very happy to announce that in less than 2 weeks we will be distributing and selling a full line of GQ's Electric Racing Tires. These will include immediately the following:

1:10th EP Touring Carpet and Pavement,
1:12th pan Car Carpet and Pavement,
1:18th M18 Pro and M18

Other tires to follow will be Tamiya F-1 Tires and Mini-Z Mounted Tires. There will be 2 new tires for introduction in a very short time. These tires will set new standards for each class they enter.

These are exciting times for GQ America and hope you will find why when you open your new set of GQ racing Tires!

Diatta Collymore Teams with GQ Racing Tires

2010-08-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

Diatta Collymore announced he has team up GQ Racing Tires for the balance of the 2010 season and all of the 2011 racing season. Diatta, a young fast rising star in the RC Racing World, will debut with GQ at the GLC Race Event in Ohio the weekend of August 27, 28, and 29th. Diatta will attend this Nitro On-Road race coming off his recent TQ and 1st place finish at the Region 1 ROAR Regional 2 weeks ago.

Diatta also announce he will use GQ Racing Tires during the indoor electric racing season as well. GQ Racing Tires known as GQamerica in the USA is imported and distributed by TMA Motorsports. They can be found at www.GQamerica.com or www.teammarketingamerica.com.

GQ Racing Tires has long been known for their superb quality. GQ inspects every rim, every donut, and every glued and trued tire for perfection. GQ is one of the very few companies that makes their own rims, manufacturers their own foam, and glues and trues the final product. All of GQ tires are cello wrapped for freshness, another feature that separates them from the competition.

Mmanufacturer's of plastics and rubber for over 30 years and makers of RC tires for over 20 years, GQ is by far no up start company. GQ strives to be the very best in Nitro, Electric, Micro and Mini tires for the RC Community. Striving for perfection leads GQ to develop new advanced materials found in their Pro Series lightweight rims. New soft rims for 1:10th Nitro On-Road Sedans becomes an added tuning feature for better lap times. Still new, drivers are just now finding out what an advantage these rims/tires are in cold weather and medium to loose traction tracks.

We are very excited in having Diatta join our racing team and looking forward to his future results with GQ Tires.