About Team Associated

Team Associated has been in the forefront of hobby-car racing since 1965. From its humble beginnings with a few slot-car parts to today, Team Associated has grown to designing and shipping thousands of radio-control cars and parts to hobby shops around the world.

Team Associated is the industry leader in race-level competition vehicles in a variety of sizes, ranging from diminutive 1:18 scale to serious nitro-thundering 1:8 scale machines. Our vehicles ride on road and off road, and are powered by electric motors and nitro engines. Our race-winning offerings include buggies, touring cars, monster trucks, and realistic-looking Short Course trucks.

Team Associated manages an in-house staff to research and develop our own race-related radio-control car products. Our talented engineers - many accomplished racers themselves - bring their years of solid racing experience to design cars that will compete at the highest levels of competition.

Team Associated fields a worldwide race team of unparalleled talent. Our stable of drivers are responsible for the many championship-caliber awards amassed since our first products in the early 1970s. We race what we sell. And we win big!

Team Associated creates its own packaging, manuals, and catalogs with its experienced in-house design department. A dedicated staff continually updates the web site at RC10.com and the online store right here in our Lake Forest office building. The in-house shipping department fulfills orders and ships products worldwide. Our sales department handles the needs of distributors around the world.

Corporate

Roger Curtis is responsible for the primeval beginnings of Associated (a slot car track in Lynwood, CA, called, believe it or not, "Associated Raceway") way back in 1964. Roger began his working career as an Engineer/Scientist at the Missiles and Space Systems Division of Douglas Aircraft Co. The experience gained from that job together with his experience racing 1:8 gas cars helped him guide the development of products at Associated.

Cliff Lett, vice-president, has been Team Associated's Product Development Manager since 1988. If you've owned an Associated product in the past 27+ years, Cliff's design team most likely designed it. Cliff's background in motocross racing included nine years as an R&D technician for Team Yamaha before "changing gears" to the RC industry.

We occasionally let Cliff out of the office to go racing, and here is what happened: He won 7 ROAR National Championships (he won 4 in one year), he won 3 NORRCA National Championships, he was an IFMAR World Champion in 1991, and has won back-to-back Reedy Race of Champions titles. To top it all off, he holds the Closed-Course "Insane Speed Run" World record at 94.3 MPH. He appears in the Guinness Book of Records 2002 for the world's fastest R/C car with his 111mph RC10L3 Oval car.

When he's not working or racing, he enjoys spending time with his son Noah, his wife Sonya, mountain biking, and fly fishing.

Reedy Power

Rick Hohwart is the Reedy Electric Department Manager. Rick oversees all operations including the planning, coordination, and development of new and innovative products related to electric motors, rechargeable batteries, and other electronics.

Recognized as one of the best and most respected professional R/C car racers in the world, and as the founder and former owner of Peak Racing, Rick brings with him over 25 years of experience and vast knowledge of the inner workings of the R/C industry.

Race Team

Brent Thielke is our Racing Team Manager. He is a well-known off road specialist who has been racing for Team Associated for the past 15 years, with solid A-Main finishes in the truck and buggy classes at the past two Cactus Classis races, and has a NORRCA National Expert Mod title to his credit.

Thielke graduated from Arizona State University with a BS in Management, and is enthusiastic about his position at Team Associated. One of his goals is to shift the emphasis and focus on the Team toward more regional events, and to actively seek out and cultivate new regional talent.

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