{"id":1031,"date":"2014-06-03T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:06:54","slug":"tekin-sweeps-the-podium-at-the-sworkz-challenge-at-silver-dollar-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-sweeps-the-podium-at-the-sworkz-challenge-at-silver-dollar-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekin sweeps the podium at the SWorkz Challenge at Silver Dollar Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">SWorkz Challenge was hosted at\u00a0the\u00a0Silver Dollar Speedway, previous home of the 2013 Ifmar worlds! \u00a0Track guru Kevin Jelich put in yet another epic layout. This one was riddled with off camber sections putting a premium on in air car handling skills. Lucky for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin <\/a>we had a qualified group of &#8220;whip artists&#8221; ready to clean out the 1\/8 E Buggy class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Lutz would lead the way with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8.html\">Tekin Rx8 Gen2 <\/a>esc <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/t8i.html\">T8i <\/a>powered Dex408v2 buggy. Ryan recently switched to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/t8i.html\">T8i <\/a>after stripping his cars weight down to 3250g, near minimum weight. &#8220;The power band was awesome. SUPER smooth and nothing compromised on the top end.&#8221; Lutz \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin <\/a>teammates Phil Atondo was nipping on his heels in A1 taking P2 followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin<\/a>\/TLR teammate Jacob Haas in 3rd. They would run A2 with the same overall results. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin <\/a>would monopolize\u00a0the podium. Lutz in P1, Atondo in P2, Haas in P3. Lutz chose the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/t8i.html\">Tekin T8i <\/a>while Atondo and Haas chose the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/t8.html\">Tekin T8 Gen2 1900kv<\/a>, all 3 chose the award winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8.html\">Tekin Rx8 Gen2 esc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/E-Buggy-Podium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/E-Buggy-Podium.jpg\" alt=\"E Buggy Podium\" width=\"640\" height=\"708\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0SWorkz Challenge was hosted at\u00a0the\u00a0Silver Dollar Speedway, previous home of the 2013 Ifmar worlds! \u00a0Track guru Kevin Jelich put in yet another epic layout. This one was riddled with off camber sections putting a premium on in air car handling skills. Lucky for Tekin we had a qualified group of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-sweeps-the-podium-at-the-sworkz-challenge-at-silver-dollar-speedway\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}