Interview with Shawn Palmer of Schumacher

Hey All, with the recent announcement from Schumacher about their speed controllers, I thought I better get to work on the interview with Shawn Palmer! It’s good and long with lots of details! Enjoy! Make sure to hit the title/jump for the full interview!

1. The news officially dropped today about Schumacher’s brushless system. It’s already a crowded BL marketplace. All the dedicated electronics only manufactures like Novak, LRP, and Castle are already in neck deep. Why did Schumacher, primarily a chassis manufacture, decide to jump into the BL market?

Schumacher USA has a long history of being more than just a distribution arm for Schumacher vehicles. We’ve been exclusive with Take Off tires and hardware for quite some time and have provided spec tires for club racing, state series racing and full blown National/International race events all over the country for years now. While the company focus on non-Schumacher vehicle product had been very racer intensive through the years, we’ve been expanding that outward recently with our CORE Lipo packs, a few more surprises to come, and right now - the GT ESC as well as brushless motors and accessories from Speed Passion.

Schumacher USA is a distributor first and foremost, and the job of a good distributor is to identify and secure new and excellent product lines for their dealers. Robin Schumacher and I have spent a considerable amount of time looking into quite a few areas and product categories in order to find both “the next big thing” as well as a line we can support our dealers and customers to the fullest with. Speed Passion seemed almost too good to be true at first, and the more we worked with them on the product line, the more we realized that not only is it all true, but it’s BETTER than we first thought.
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