{"id":106,"date":"2013-05-08T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=106"},"modified":"2013-05-08T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:47:00","slug":"tekin-wins-the-2013-roar-nats-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-wins-the-2013-roar-nats-warm-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekin wins the 2013 Roar Nats warm up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 ROAR nationals warm up was held at Gulf Coast RC Raceway in Porter, Texas. \u00a0The weekend event included the electric buggy class which provided some extra run time on the track and another opportunity for some close racing on the very high bite track . \u00a0This allowed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>Team drivers to put the power of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>systems to the ground and run some really fast laps. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday there were three 7 minute qualifiers using rocket round to determine the starting order for the main event. \u00a0We were able to qualify first by a small margin over Jake Dillinger and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>powered David Joor. \u00a0The main started with a very close group battling for the top spot. \u00a0After all of the top three swapping positions numerous times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>powered Barry Pettit was able to pull a small lead and finish the race in the first position. Barry was joined by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>teammate Brian &#8220;Smiley&#8221; Henn in 3rd.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7EmFICVwZfs\/UYqBWNh2_YI\/AAAAAAAAEug\/gnQoXUtwPhE\/s1600\/IMG_0478.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7EmFICVwZfs\/UYqBWNh2_YI\/AAAAAAAAEug\/gnQoXUtwPhE\/s400\/IMG_0478.JPG\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We ran the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin RX-8<\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/t8.html\" target=\"_blank\">T8 2050<\/a> motor powered by the Protek batteries. \u00a0This combination helped our Mugen MBX-6 ECO put all the power to the ground and hook up our JConcepts rubber!&#8221; \u00a0Barry Pettit<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fOPKZ4V6w5g\/UYqQan6iRJI\/AAAAAAAAEuw\/NlYLXBJQf-w\/s1600\/Warm+Up+SC+NEW.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fOPKZ4V6w5g\/UYqQan6iRJI\/AAAAAAAAEuw\/NlYLXBJQf-w\/s400\/Warm+Up+SC+NEW.jpg\" width=\"300\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Brian Henn continued the Tekin dominance taking the overall Tq and win in the 4wd SC class with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8_gen1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin Rx8<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/pro4hd.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pro 4 HD<\/a> powered TLR Scte 2.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 ROAR nationals warm up was held at Gulf Coast RC Raceway in Porter, Texas. \u00a0The weekend event included the electric buggy class which provided some extra run time on the track and another opportunity for some close racing on the very high bite track . \u00a0This allowed the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-wins-the-2013-roar-nats-warm-up\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"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=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}