{"id":147,"date":"2013-01-18T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=147"},"modified":"2013-01-18T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:07:00","slug":"tekin-powers-eric-salvas-to-us-open-wheel-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-powers-eric-salvas-to-us-open-wheel-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekin powers Eric Salvas to US Open Wheel Championship!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bumps and Jumps Rc in Etters, Pa was host to the 22nd annual U.S. Open Wheel Dirt Oval Championship. held Dec 14th-16th. Tekin team driver Eric Salvas had a great weekend!<\/p>\n

A point system qualifier was used for setting the main (tq for each round gave 1 pt…2nd 2 pts…) single best round used to set main…DASH set the starting positions (top 6 draw and race for 2 minutes Dash…100$ to win and start first in Amain!<\/p>\n

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Eric qualified 2nd in 13.5 the EDM class. Drawing 3rd in the DASH taking the win and a cool $100. Eric wouldn’t stop there, cruising to victory over 41 other racers in the Amain taking home $200.<\/p>\n

In 13.5 LM Eric would take overall Tq honors. Eric drew 5th in the DASH taking 4th not giving him the best starting position for the main. Eric had a great car but would settle for 3rd overall.<\/p>\n

In Mod Spring Eric would draw 3rd in the DASH and take a 2nd giving him a good starting position for the A. While fighting for the lead Eric would crash and have to come back hard to finish 3rd overall.<\/p>\n

Eric used the following Tekin Products:<\/p>\n

Tekin RS Pro<\/a>
Tekin Hotwire<\/a>
Tekin Gen2<\/a><\/p>\n

In Open Comp where the only rule is the car must fit in the tech box Eric and brother Steve chose a Tekin Rx8<\/a> and Gen 2 3.5<\/a> powred 4wd CustomWorks Dominator. With $300 for grabs competition was fierce. The two would keep their cool and with a bit of luck after some hard crashing in the field the two would take the overall win and $300 cash!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0“We chose a STRONG 3.5 GEN2<\/a> motors AND indestructible RX8<\/a>!!!” Eric Salvas.<\/p>\n

Video of the event!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bumps and Jumps Rc in Etters, Pa was host to the 22nd annual U.S. Open Wheel Dirt Oval Championship. held Dec 14th-16th. Tekin team driver Eric Salvas had a great weekend! A point system qualifier was used for setting the main (tq for each round gave 1 pt…2nd 2 pts…) \u2026 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\/147"}],"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=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}