{"id":172,"date":"2012-10-09T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=172"},"modified":"2012-10-09T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T16:06:00","slug":"ryan-lutz-takes-big-wins-at-the-southern-nats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/ryan-lutz-takes-big-wins-at-the-southern-nats\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Lutz takes big wins at the Southern Nats."},"content":{"rendered":"

4WD SC \u2013 On Friday during my first practice packs on the track I made it 3 laps before I broke the rear aluminum diff hoop. Of course this being a part I wouldn\u2019t expect to break I didn\u2019t have any spares and so luckily I was able to have someone next day air me the part so that I could compete come race days. Come Satruday the part arrived around 11AM. To late to make the first qualifier so I had just the last two left and needed to make them count. Having only had a couple laps on the track and when it was much smoother I wasn\u2019t sure how I was going to fare. Luckily my Tekin <\/a>powered Durango DESC410RV2 was up to the task and was absolutely blistering on this track. Down the long front straight my Tekin Rx8<\/a> and Pro 4 4600 4-pole<\/a> and ProTek batteries supplied all the power I needed and it was smooth sailing those last two qualifiers. I was able to take commanding TQ\u2019s of both rounds and secure the overall.<\/p>\n

Come Sunday it was time for Triple A\u2019s. In A1 the first race of the morning and starting on pole I just took off and did what I did during the qual’s. I built a stronger lead lap after lap and went on to win by quite a margin. In A2 it was much the same. The track had dried out a bit and a groove had actually formed in some areas making the track a little faster. I was able to put in a few 41 second lap times with my SC truck which was only just a little over a second slower than my 1\/8th scales! My truck was dialed and went on to compliment the TQ with the Win.<\/p>\n

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1\/8th Electric Buggy \u2013 My Tekin powered Durango DEX408 was dialed this weekend. The rough track was no match for it as I was able to take some commanding TQ\u2019s in all 3 qualifiers and thus taking the overall TQ. Come main time it was much the same as in 4wd SC. I would start on pole and never look back. Pulling a larger lead each lap coming away with some solid victories in both A1 and A2 and thus the overall Win. I chose the Tekin Rx8<\/a> and Tekin T8 1900<\/a> motor in this class.<\/div>\n
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4WD SC \u2013 On Friday during my first practice packs on the track I made it 3 laps before I broke the rear aluminum diff hoop. Of course this being a part I wouldn\u2019t expect to break I didn\u2019t have any spares and so luckily I was able to have \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\/172"}],"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=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}