{"id":1316,"date":"2014-09-29T22:12:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T22:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2014-09-29T22:12:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T22:12:51","slug":"bornhorst-wins-race-against-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/bornhorst-wins-race-against-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bornhorst wins Race Against Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The East\u00a0\u00a0Coast Race Against Cancer held at McCullough\u2019s RC Raceway is a race not to be missed in the Northeast. Not only\u00a0\u00a0for the atmosphere of such a great event, but also for some of the\u00a0best regional competition that you can find. This year\u2019s event drew\u00a0\u00a0just over 250 entries among a number of different classes, the biggest\u00a0\u00a0being the 1\/8 Electric classes. Tekin<\/strong> <\/a>factory driver Joe Bornhorst checks in:<\/p>\n

“The schedule for the weekend was practice on\u00a0\u00a0Thursday, practice and the first round of qualifying on Friday, 2
\nrounds of qualifying on Saturday, and main events on Sunday. As the\u00a0\u00a0weekend started, rain was a major worry of most people attending. With\u00a0\u00a0some rain coming down on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the
\ntrack was soaked and practice would be delayed a couple of hours. But\u00a0\u00a0with the track crew working diligently, we would be able to get on the\u00a0\u00a0track in no time. The rest of the night along with Friday morning was\u00a0spent doing the normal things like trying different tires, working on\u00a0\u00a0setups, and learning the layout. I made a few small changes to both of\u00a0\u00a0my cars, but didn\u2019t go too far from what seem to be becoming my \u201cbase\u201d\u00a0\u00a0setups.<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a><\/p>\n

On Friday, the first round of qualifying was set to go\u00a0\u00a0at 1 p.m. and would go on for a few hours as we had over 20 heats to\u00a0\u00a0get through. The round went smoothly, and as the sun began to go down,\u00a0\u00a0the overnight TQ\u2019s were set. I was able to get a clean run in both\u00a0\u00a0E-Buggy and E-Truggy and set the pace early on in both. Since this\u00a0\u00a0race was done by Rocket-Round, anything could happen the next day, but\u00a0\u00a0I was feeling very confident with both my Tekin<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>powered Tekno EB48.2 and ET48 vehicles for\u00a0\u00a0the last two rounds. Saturday\u2019s qualifying would go much like the day\u00a0\u00a0before. With both of my cars being on point, along with a couple more\u00a0\u00a0clean runs, I was able to set the TQ pace in both classes!<\/p>\n

Sunday morning had come, the mains were set, and\u00a0\u00a0everything was ready to go. Finally with some good weather, the track\u00a0\u00a0was drying out much more than it had all weekend long. After all of my\u00a0\u00a0car prep was done, I spent most of the day watching some races, paying\u00a0\u00a0attention to grip levels, and walking the track every chance that I
\ngot. Since the weather and track were both so different, I\u00a0\u00a0contemplated making a few changes, but ended up deciding to just go up\u00a0\u00a0in tire compound. The Buggy main was up first, so I used the warm up\u00a0\u00a0as a quick test for the harder tire. I decided that I was definitely\u00a0\u00a0better, so I stuck with it. This also helped me for the Truggy main in\u00a0\u00a0which I made the same change. Luckily, both mains went exactly how I\u00a0\u00a0wanted them to, as I was able to pull away from the pack and put in\u00a0two very solid and clean runs to bring home wins in both classes!<\/p>\n

The race couldn\u2019t have gone any smoother for me, and I\u00a0\u00a0was glad to have such a good weekend to debut my new Tekin<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>powered Tekno cars! I\u00a0\u00a0would like to say thank you all of my teammates for the help all\u00a0\u00a0weekend, and also a thank you to all of my sponsors which include:<\/p>\n

Tekin<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, Tekno <\/a><\/span>RC, Magic Hobbies, AKA, MIP, Avid, SMC Batteries, PT RC\u00a0Racing Oils, B-Fast, The Radio Impound Podcast, and Double Crossed\u00a0Designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The East\u00a0\u00a0Coast Race Against Cancer held at McCullough\u2019s RC Raceway is a race not to be missed in the Northeast. Not only\u00a0\u00a0for the atmosphere of such a great event, but also for some of the\u00a0best regional competition that you can find. This year\u2019s event drew\u00a0\u00a0just over 250 entries among a \u2026 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\/1316"}],"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=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}