Mike Zippy Ziolkowski wins at the 2011 Indiana Electric State Champs!

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2011 Indiana Electric State Champs hosted at Raceworld Raceway in GRIFFITH, IN held May 20-22nd. 


Mike Tq’d Mod 2wd buggy using an RS Pro and Redline 13.5 taking 2nd overall. Mike’s recap “A1 A2 and A3 consisted in a 4 way battle for the entire races with me ending up with 3rd ,1st and a 2nd with my A3 round making a heavy charge in the last 3 min.” 


Mike took 1st Place Mod Truck again using only a 13.5 Redline/RS PRo setup! Mike: “I won A1 with some exciting battles the entire race. Running away with A2 sealing the deal on the victory!”

Congratulations Mike!

Doug "Casper" Nielsen joins Tekin!

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Tekin would like to welcome Doug to our race team. Doug has been racing for over a decade with great success. Doug aka “Casper” is a well known and respected racer that spends as much time on his own race program as he does helping others online in the many r/c forums such as Losi’s Tech forum and RC Tech.


You will catch Doug racing in and around the Socal area OCRC, West Coast, Hotrod Hobbies and other fine racetracks.

Axial West Coast Championship Qualifier (AWCCQ) – Long Beach, WA

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“Long Beach, Washington, is famous for its clam digging, pristine coastal/drivable beach line, kite flying competitions and other summertime activities and this year was host to AWCC Qualifier Round #3. In 2010, Rocky Carlson, or Rockpile as he is known on the rccrawler.com boards, stumbled upon this very unique spot at the south end of Long Beach. Nestled against an amazing backdrop and what looks to be like a natural rainforest, especially if you’re from Southern California where vegetation grows because you bought some plants and irrigation from Home Depot, the spot could not have provided a better mix of scenery, accessibility and most importantly, amazing rock. With the compilation from the local clubs of ORCRC, WPRCCA, and WARCRC the event saw over 60 competitors in the highly coveted 2.2 Pro Class and 7 new competitors in the sportsman class ready to get their feet wet in the creative, exciting and just plain fun hobby of RC Rock Crawling.” Squirrel


Scott Hughes and his Tekin FXR T-Series powered XR10 took 2nd place in the Pro 2.2 class.


Tekin podiums at the 1st Annual Motown Showdown in Modesto, California

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The first ever Motown Showdown in Modesto, California was held May 13-15 which capped of to have around 75 entries. In 2wd Mod Buggy Zack found himself tarting 2nd behind Cody Turner who set the fastest pace in round two, three seconds over myself ,Tekin teammate Derick Stephenson found himself starting 5th. Zack Rogers Tq’d all three rounds of 4wd Mod Buggy and set track record for fast lap, 24.7!
With a good chance of rain on Sunday the plan was to have two A mains at 10 mins each to see who would be crowned overall champion in each class. The 2wd main was up first and the weather had just given a sample of what was going to happen next. At the 6 minute mark rain started coming down. We finished up the race with Zack Rogers in the 2nd spot, Derick Stephansen(Tekin) found himself 4th overall after the long mud packed race.
Shortly after the 4wd main was up and I was more than ready as the track had dried out just a bit. The buzzer went off and Zack was gone. His Tekin powered Kyosho car was on rails all weekend and within three mins I had already streached a 3/4 track lead over 2nd place Cody Hughey. Zack would suffer a rare car failure while still taking 2nd. A2 would be called due to weather.

Tekin’s Clint Riley would win also take the Stock/Intermediate class with his 13.5 Redline powered Losi 22. Greg Stephansen would finish behind him, also Tekin powered.


Kyle Johnson signs with Tekin!

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Team Tekin would like to welcome Kyle Johnson to the team. Kyle’s most recent success was the Silver State Short Course Championships held at 702 Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kyle drove his Tekin powered Losi SCTe to victory in this highly competitive class.

In just 3 short years of racing Kyle is already proving he can race with the best drivers around. Keep an eye out for Kyle’s Tekin powered Losi cars at 702 Raceway and all over the US.

Brian Weyers takes the Revolution Raceway 12wk Points Series

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Revolution Raceway in Appleton WI. Very first point season. The series length was 12 week with 2 drop outs. Brian proved to have the consistency over the race series to place 1st in Mod Truck. Brian also took 2nd in Mod Buggy. 

Points series Standings:
In Mod Buggy  1st place Brandon Radke
                      2nd place Brian Weyers(Tekin)
                      3rd place Zac Rose
In Mod Stadium Truck
                        1st place Brian Weyers(Tekin)
                        2nd place Jim Flemming
                        3rd place Mike Stager
                       

Zack Rogers is in the hunt after 3 rounds of the JBRL Electric Series!

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“Last weekend was the 3rd round of JBRL and I had an decent weekend. I had the speed and right setup to be in the hunt. A little bad luck and a mental error put me 3rd in 4wd and 4th in 2wd. My Tekin gear ran flawlessly as always! Standings after 3 rounds:

2WD                                     4WD
Chris Jarosz                         Zack Rogers(Tekin)
Zack Rogers(Tekin)             Andrew Smolnik
Brian Mcduffie                      Jimmy Barnett
Andrew Smolnik                    Greg Hodapp
Frank Root                           Nick Lasley(Tekin)
Jonny Wachter                     Brent Fiege
Aaron Lane                          Josh Mitchell
Nick Lasley(Tekin)                 Brent Bisbee
Cody Turner                         Justin Mead
Jimmy Barnett                      Jorn Neumann

Mike Malott Tq’s and wins Rd 1 of SRI Raceway’s Local Joe Series!

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“In the main the top 5 in quals were only 8 seconds apart. The main started off really well and my OFNA teammate and I were able to get away from the field early and were starting to pull away. I made a mistake under the bridge section and it took the marshal a few seconds to get to me and that dropped me back to about 5th spot. I knew I had a lot of time left so I put that behind me and started hitting my marks and making a charge. When I got to 3rd I could see the top 2 were starting to battle it out and if I could get to them I would be able to make my moves while they were racing each other. I caught them with about 4 minutes to go and stayed right there with them until about 3 minutes to go. I made a move on the leaders and went to the inside of both of them coming onto the straight and was able to out power them down the straight and take the lead. Once I got to the lead they were still battling it out and then they tangled under the bridge section. That allowed me to get away from the rest of the field and cruise for the last 2 minutes of the race and take the win. I was pumped with the win and to start the series off right. My OFNA/BCE Hyper 9e was awesome and really reacted to all the changes I made throughout the day. My Tekin Electronics and AKA tires allowed me the power and grip I needed all night and day to take the TQ honors and the A main win. The PT RC Racing Oils were awesome and gave me that smooth and consistent feel I needed throughout the day. 
 
Thanks to all my sponsors for giving me the opportunity again this year to use your products. With my current program and sponsors I am confident that I have the best equipment on the market today to be a front runner everywhere I go this year. ” Mike Malott

Ryan Lutz took Short Course and 8th buggy classes in style this weekend at the Nor-Cal Championship series at Nor-Cal Hobbies!

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“In Short Course I ran my DESC410R and it felt great!  I didn’t touch it the entire day, just ran my one practice, two qualifiers, and the A-main. I was able to TQ every round of quals and take the victory in the A-main. For fun in the second qualifier I ran on the 1/8th layout (there was an option lane for the SC guys). I was only 1.4 seconds a lap on the 1/8th layout slower than my 1/8th buggy and truggy. My little DESC410R was flying – running the optional centre diff I was skying the huge hip jump with it and launching it off the back table top. It was a lot of fun and people were very impressed with its performance.” Ryan Lutz


Ryan is using the Tekn Rx8 and 4.5 Sc4x in his Desc410r