{"id":1223,"date":"2014-08-11T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T18:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2014-08-11T18:20:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T18:20:59","slug":"chris-wheeler-checks-in-from-the-sc-showdown-series-from-warehouse-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/chris-wheeler-checks-in-from-the-sc-showdown-series-from-warehouse-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wheeler checks in from the SC Showdown Series from Warehouse 3!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warehouse 3 hosted the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortcourseshowdown.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Short Course Showdown<\/span><\/a><\/span> series Rd5. Hosted by the world renowned Scotty Ernst the SC Showdown series has been touted as some of the most fun events to attend. Known for great racing, great atmosphere and great prizes from the series sponsors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin <\/a>powered Chris &#8220;18&#8221; Wheeler was in attendance racing the Pro2 SC class and 2wd Mod buggy with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin <\/a>equipped TLR vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In Pro 2 every heat was a close race with Brian Kinwald and Wheeler\u00a0would hold TQ till round 3 when Brian would put in a perfect run to beat his\u00a0time by 2 seconds. In round 4 Wheeler\u00a0had the pace to beat the time posted but with heads up qualifying the battling for position would slow our pace down. Wheeler would end up qualifying second overall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SCS22SCT2.0track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SCS22SCT2.0track.jpg\" alt=\"SCS22SCT2.0track\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the main Wheeler would get out to a good start and was following Kinwald waiting for an opportunity to pass, unfortunately Wheeler\u00a0would bobble a bit and let Spencer Rivkin by into the 2nd spot. At this point while Wheeler\u00a0was in 3rd he\u00a0would tangle with 4th and end up at the back of the pack. Chris\u00a0managed to pick his\u00a0way through the field back up to 3rd. Kinwald and Rivkin then had a very large lead but with them battling each other Wheeler\u00a0was able to catch back up to them and at least make it a race but then caught a corner dot when trying to look for an inside pass on Rivkin and rolled it over and would have to settle for 3rd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SCS-Sunday-Podium-Pro-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SCS-Sunday-Podium-Pro-2-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"SCS Sunday Podium Pro 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"566\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris chose the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rsx.html\">Tekin RSX<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/redline_gen2.html\">Redline 6.5 Gen2<\/a> motor to power his TLR SCT 2.0 Pro 2 truck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SCS222.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SCS222.0.jpg\" alt=\"SCS222.0\" width=\"640\" height=\"556\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting from 4th on the grid Chris\u00a0stayed patient and managed to move up into 3rd within the first few laps then 2nd soon after that. Wheeler\u00a0was able to keep the leader, which at this point was Spencer Rivkin in his\u00a0sights for most of the race pulling a\u00a0decent gap on 3rd place. Chris\u00a0began to make some minor mistakes trying to push to catch Rivkin and this allowed 3rd place Tommy Hinz to catch up. They\u00a0battled for about the last 2 minutes of the race and on the last lap would be side by side entering the sweeper before the finish line and would cross the line at nearly the same time but Chris\u00a0would hold on for 2nd place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SCS-Sunday-Podium-2wd-Mod.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SCS-Sunday-Podium-2wd-Mod-1024x829.jpg\" alt=\"SCS Sunday Podium 2wd Mod\" width=\"640\" height=\"607\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris chose the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rsx.html\">Tekin RSX<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/redline_gen2.html\">Redline 7.5<\/a> for to power his TLR 22.0 buggy to the podium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warehouse 3 hosted the Short Course Showdown series Rd5. Hosted by the world renowned Scotty Ernst the SC Showdown series has been touted as some of the most fun events to attend. Known for great racing, great atmosphere and great prizes from the series sponsors. Tekin powered Chris &#8220;18&#8221; Wheeler \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/chris-wheeler-checks-in-from-the-sc-showdown-series-from-warehouse-3\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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\/1223"}],"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=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}