{"id":2305,"date":"2015-07-23T20:45:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2015-07-23T20:45:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:45:24","slug":"nathan-dean-is-the-king-of-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/nathan-dean-is-the-king-of-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Dean is the King of Dirt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was the first annual King of Dirt, held at <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastlanehobbies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fastlane RC<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>in Blue Springs Missouri. For those who have never been, they have 5 total tracks with air conditioned pits. The inaugural event had over 120 entries. Competition was stacked with racers from Texas, Oklahoma,Illinois,Kansas and Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>In Mod Sprint it was Chris Shearburn taking the TQ, running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rsx.html\"><strong>Tekin RSX<\/strong><\/a> speed control. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\"><strong>Tekin<\/strong><\/a> factory driver Nathan Dean\u00a0was able to get by on lap 5 of 50 in lap traffic, and hold on to take the victory. Chris Shearburn was second followed by Justin Driemeier taking home third. Dean also chose the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rsx.html\"><strong>Tekin RSX<\/strong><\/a> esc along with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/redline_gen2.html\"><strong>Gen2 Redline<\/strong><\/a> motor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/King-of-the-Dirt.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/King-of-the-Dirt-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"King of the Dirt\" width=\"499\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/King-of-the-Dirt-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/King-of-the-Dirt-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/King-of-the-Dirt-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/King-of-the-Dirt.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Mod Late Model, Nathan Dean was able to take TQ and lead all 50 laps. Chris Shearburn was a close second. The whole race we battled through lap traffic and finished a straight away apart. Third was Jason Jackson, running all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\"><strong>Tekin<\/strong><\/a> products in his Late Model. Dean once again chose the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rsx.html\"><strong>Tekin RSX<\/strong><\/a> esc and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/redline_gen2.html\"><strong>Gen2 Redline<\/strong><\/a> motor combo.<\/p>\n<p>In Midwest Mod Dean\u00a0was able to Tq and take the victory. &#8220;This is a Spec\/blinky 10.5 class, where motors are everything. My fast lap was almost .4 tenths faster than second, and had great straight line speed with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/redline_gen2.html\"><strong>Tekin Gen2 Redline 10.5 motor<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rsx.html\"><strong>RSX<\/strong><\/a> esc.&#8221; Dean<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\"><strong>Tekin<\/strong><\/a> for all there help and support. I ran <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rsx.html\">RSX<\/a><\/strong> speed controls in all my cars. Had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/redline_gen2.html\"><strong>Tekin 6.5<\/strong><\/a> in sprint, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/redline_gen2.html\"><strong>Tekin 7.5<\/strong><\/a> in late model and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/redline_gen2.html\"><strong>Tekin 10.5<\/strong><\/a> in Midwest mod.&#8221; Nathan Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was the first annual King of Dirt, held at Fastlane RC in Blue Springs Missouri. For those who have never been, they have 5 total tracks with air conditioned pits. The inaugural event had over 120 entries. Competition was stacked with racers from Texas, Oklahoma,Illinois,Kansas and Missouri. In \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/nathan-dean-is-the-king-of-dirt\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2306,"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\/2305"}],"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=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}