November 14th and 15th at East Texas RC Raceway in Whitehouse, TX, Tekin products dominated the competition. This was the 2nd annual money race that ETRC has held and drivers from Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma came to compete for a piece of the $1500 total payout.

Practice began on Friday and team driver Marc ‘McGoo’ McGurren looked like the man to beat. All three of his cars looked great as they were turning some of the fastest laps of the day. More and more drivers came in as the day progressed, and the competition heated up for qualifying on Saturday.

Races began on Saturday and McGoo proved in fact that he was the man to beat, even though the competition was tough, by TQ’ing all 4 rounds of 17.5 Foam TC, 17.5, and 17.5 World GT. With pole position in all three classes, it looked like McGoo might make a sweep of victories on the carpet.

1/12 was up first, and it was McGoo’s Tekin-powered Speedmerchant Rev5 with a phenomenal start as he was holding off Oklahoman Brian Stanton who was pressuring hard. With a bobble from Stanton, McGoo took off on a faster-than-TQ pace. Unfortunately, after some bad luck with back markers, McGoo fell to fourth with three minutes left, mustering up a disappointing but respectable 3rd place finish.

Next up was 17.5 World GT. McGoo had a great hole shot with his Tekin-Powered Speedmerchant Pro10 and was able to slowly pull away from the field. Fellow Texan Andrew Doherty made a final push to challenge McGoo, but with a small bobble on the 2nd to last lap by Doherty, McGoo was able to pull away and take the win.

Lastly was the highest dollar amount payout of 17.5 TC. McGoo felt confident with his Tekin-powered Schumacher Mi3, but he knew the win wouldn’t come easy. McGoo had another great start and was able to slowly pull away, but with a mid-race bobble that dropped him back to fourth place, he only had about 15 laps to fight back to the top—and that is exactly what he did. Overtaking the leader with only 3 laps left, McGoo clinched another win.

McGoo’s cars were all power-packed with the RS Speed Control and Redline 17.5s, making it a successful day for McGoo and Team Tekin!