{"id":208,"date":"2012-05-02T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=208"},"modified":"2012-05-02T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:51:00","slug":"tekin-smashes-the-competition-at-the-traction-raceway-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-smashes-the-competition-at-the-traction-raceway-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekin "Smashes" the competition at the Traction Raceway Showdown!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traction Raceway Showdown was held at Traction Raceway in\u00a0Reno, NV on the weekend of\u00a0April 28-29 2012.\u00a0159 entries would provide from some fast and fierce competition in all classes.<\/p>\n

Qualifying for the\u00a02wd Expert Modified Stadium Truck had Tekin’s<\/a> own Jack “Smash” Ingberg exchanging Tq runs with Sactown here Eddie Bernal. The two would go back and forth resetting each others fastest runs. Jack “Smash” would end up the Overall Tq for the class with his Tekin RS Pro <\/a>Redline<\/a> powered T4.1. Eddie would end up right behind him 2nd.<\/p>\n

In the 2wd Expert Mod Stadium Truck A-main Jack “Smash” would get blast out of his Tq position and lead from tone to tone. Jack would take Tq and the win! Jacks car was using a Tekin RS Pro<\/a>, Redline 8.5<\/a> motor and was shod with Panther Clay Switch 2.0s.<\/p>\n

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4wd Expert Modified Buggy had some of the fastest drivers in the region. Drivers like AE’s Eric Albano, Bryan Eady, and others were in this class all trying to grind out the top qualifying position. Jack would qualify 3rd overall for the A-main.<\/p>\n

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The main started off well for the top 3 as they began to break away a bit. The 3 were feeling each other out a little causing some small mistakes to change the race. Jack would drop down to 7th after casing a jump and would fight back catching up to 2nd place. The two would swap positions 3 times cleanly on the last lap and would drag race down the straight allowing Jack to take the 2nd spot by .1 seconds! Jack was using the Tekin RS Pro<\/a> and Redline 6.5 <\/a>motor in his B44.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traction Raceway Showdown was held at Traction Raceway in\u00a0Reno, NV on the weekend of\u00a0April 28-29 2012.\u00a0159 entries would provide from some fast and fierce competition in all classes. Qualifying for the\u00a02wd Expert Modified Stadium Truck had Tekin’s own Jack “Smash” Ingberg exchanging Tq runs with Sactown here Eddie Bernal. The \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\/208"}],"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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}