{"id":1521,"date":"2014-12-15T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2014-12-16T22:11:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:11:44","slug":"tekin-takes-ams-tots-race-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-takes-ams-tots-race-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekin takes AMS &#8220;Tots&#8221; race win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday December 6th, AMS raceway hosted their annual Toys for Tots race.<\/p>\n<p>In 1:8 E Buggy it was back and fourth between Nick Vasquez and Kevin Morales\u00a0fighting for TQ. In the 3rd round Morales ended up taking TQ with a 14\/5:08 run. Morales ran uncontested during the main to take the win, followed by team <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin <\/a><\/strong>drivers Brad Rippee and Nick Vasquez. All 3 drivers would run the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8.html\">Tekin Rx8 Gen2<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/t8.html\">T8 Gen2<\/a> motor\/esc systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image1-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"image1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin would take the win in the Pro2 SC Truck division. Kevin says \u00a0&#8220;My <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0powered TLR 22 SCT 2.0 MM was on rails all day and had tons of smooth power to take the TQ overall. I ran smooth in the main and ended up taking the win from wire to wire. My <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0electronics ran consistent and smooth all day! I also want to thank TLR, Horizon Hobbies, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin<\/a><\/strong>, Proline, and Darkside Designs for all of the continued support!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image3-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"image3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Vasquez would also take the win in the 4wd Mod Buggy class running his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rsx.html\">Tekin RSX<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/redline_gen2.html\">Redline Gen2<\/a> <\/strong>powered HotBodies D413 buggy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Toys-for-Tots-AMS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Toys-for-Tots-AMS.jpg\" alt=\"Toys for Tots AMS\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin would also take 2nd in Mod ST Truck behind Dakota Phend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image2-1024x803.jpg\" alt=\"image2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday December 6th, AMS raceway hosted their annual Toys for Tots race. In 1:8 E Buggy it was back and fourth between Nick Vasquez and Kevin Morales\u00a0fighting for TQ. In the 3rd round Morales ended up taking TQ with a 14\/5:08 run. Morales ran uncontested during the main to \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-takes-ams-tots-race-win\/\"> 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\/1521"}],"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=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}