{"id":1972,"date":"2015-02-26T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2015-02-26T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:03:19","slug":"garrison-wins-race-on-the-rug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/garrison-wins-race-on-the-rug\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrison wins Race on The Rug!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend hosted the 2015 Race On The Rug event at the R\/C Complex in Bolivar, Missouri. The facility recently decided to remove their dirt offroad track, and replace it with a European style carpet offroad track. Winter weather and icy roads unfortunately struck the area leading up to the race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1550.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1973\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1550-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1550\" width=\"1024\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mod 4wd Buggy class was a bit light in attendance, but still offered some close racing and blistering fast speeds for the spectators to enjoy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin&#8217;s<\/a> Mike Garrison managed to capture TQ in qualifying with the only 18-lap run in the class. As the A-Final got underway, it was a back and forth battle in the early laps between Garrison and Intech&#8217;s Dave Ferrell. After a slight mistake by Ferrell following close in 2nd, Garrison was able to stretch out his lead and cruise to victory!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1548.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1548.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1548\" width=\"956\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike says, &#8220;I was skeptical of the idea of racing offroad on carpet, but after this weekend I must admit it was definitely a good time! Thank you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\">Tekin<\/a>, TLR, Horizon Hobby, Spektrum, JConcepts, Venom RC, RDRP, and Moto1 Paint for making it all possible!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend hosted the 2015 Race On The Rug event at the R\/C Complex in Bolivar, Missouri. The facility recently decided to remove their dirt offroad track, and replace it with a European style carpet offroad track. Winter weather and icy roads unfortunately struck the area leading up to \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/garrison-wins-race-on-the-rug\/\"> 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\/1972"}],"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=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}