{"id":137,"date":"2013-02-25T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:59:00","slug":"tekin-powered-podium-at-the-2013-dirt-nitro-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-powered-podium-at-the-2013-dirt-nitro-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekin powered podium at the 2013 Dirt Nitro Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 Dirt Nitro Challenge concluded this pat weekend. Racers from all over the world would converge to this unique event that plays host to not only 1\/8 Nitro racing but 1\/10 Short Course, 1\/5 Scale, and even a 1\/10 Gas Truck revival class!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>would dominate the qualifying of the 4wd SC division with drivers Ryan Lutz and Austin Blair both taking rounds of their own. In the final the racing would be tight and fierce and come down to who made the least amount of mistakes. In the end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin&#8217;s <\/a>own Austin Blair would take the overall win with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin Rx8<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/pro4.html\" target=\"_blank\">\/Pro 4<\/a> powered Tekno truck. Right behind him was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>powered Ryan Lutz with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin Rx8<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/pro4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pro 4 <\/a>Team Durango truck. 3rd place would be held by Tyler Vik with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin Rx8<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/pro4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pro 4<\/a> powered Tekno truck. All 3 drivers chose the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rx8<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/pro4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pro 4 4600<\/a> motor to take a podium position.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XyHHMRB_lxE\/USuVVySn9wI\/AAAAAAAAEPg\/WAm9BKVD8Zg\/s1600\/sat-4wscpropodium.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"223\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XyHHMRB_lxE\/USuVVySn9wI\/AAAAAAAAEPg\/WAm9BKVD8Zg\/s400\/sat-4wscpropodium.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>photo courtesy of RedRc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>team drivers would also fill the Amain having over half of the Amain running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin<\/a>. Tq Austin Blair would run a good race but bobble hard around the 6 minute mark allowing teammate Ryan Lutz to get by followed closely by TLR&#8217;s Billy Fisher. \u00a0Lutz would then bobble allowing Fisher to get by and run away with the race. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>would still have 3 of the top 5 drivers in the end!<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Bu1NO5WGqE8\/USuXlue7c-I\/AAAAAAAAEPw\/3f1ZUKJJerw\/s1600\/EUR_1680-M.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"172\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Bu1NO5WGqE8\/USuXlue7c-I\/AAAAAAAAEPw\/3f1ZUKJJerw\/s320\/EUR_1680-M.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>photo courtesy of NeoBuggy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-AFRsbjRpSdA\/USuWHxB9WbI\/AAAAAAAAEPo\/z24bqSm_wvU\/s1600\/elbuggydn.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-AFRsbjRpSdA\/USuWHxB9WbI\/AAAAAAAAEPo\/z24bqSm_wvU\/s320\/elbuggydn.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Please be sure to vote for the Tekin Rx8 and Pro 4 4600 motor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/2013_rcca_vote.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span>RCCA&#8217;s Reader&#8217;s Choice<\/span><\/a> awards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 Dirt Nitro Challenge concluded this pat weekend. Racers from all over the world would converge to this unique event that plays host to not only 1\/8 Nitro racing but 1\/10 Short Course, 1\/5 Scale, and even a 1\/10 Gas Truck revival class! Tekin would dominate the qualifying of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-powered-podium-at-the-2013-dirt-nitro-challenge\/\"> 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\/137"}],"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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}