{"id":23,"date":"2014-01-30T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=23"},"modified":"2014-01-30T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T18:17:00","slug":"tekin-wins-run-for-the-riches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-wins-run-for-the-riches\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekin wins Run for the Riches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rock Racing in Knoxville Tennessee hosted the Run for the Riches. A one day event that was a challenge for the race directors as well as the racers to pack all the action in for one day. Mother Nature also threw a few curve balls, with the temps in the teens, 50-70 mph wind gusts, and slow flurries. But hey, everyone there loves racing RC!!<\/p>\n<p>The qualifying rounds were cut to 2 races as voted by the racers themselves to avoid some very late night mains. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>factory driver Barry Pettit qualified in 1\/8 E-Buggy as TQ just in front of teammate Mugen\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>driver, Shay Brand. Pettit would make a mistake allowing Brand to take the lead who never looked back to take the win! \u00a0Pettit would joint his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>teammate on the podium 2nd overall.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LqcKrUIjtr4\/UuqWqLjElsI\/AAAAAAAAIA0\/yn32KSo7UVo\/s1600\/Run+for+riches+1-8+E+Buggy.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LqcKrUIjtr4\/UuqWqLjElsI\/AAAAAAAAIA0\/yn32KSo7UVo\/s1600\/Run+for+riches+1-8+E+Buggy.JPG\" height=\"266\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>(L-R) Pettit, Brand, unkown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Both drivers chose the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rx8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin Rx8 Gen2<\/a> esc and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/t8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gen2 T8<\/a> motor to power their Mugen Eco buggies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock Racing in Knoxville Tennessee hosted the Run for the Riches. A one day event that was a challenge for the race directors as well as the racers to pack all the action in for one day. Mother Nature also threw a few curve balls, with the temps in the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-wins-run-for-the-riches\/\"> 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\/23"}],"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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}