{"id":2401,"date":"2015-11-05T22:58:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T22:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2015-11-05T22:58:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T22:58:33","slug":"darren-lord-gives-tekin-stock-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/darren-lord-gives-tekin-stock-national-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Lord gives Tekin Stock National Title!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tekin<\/strong><\/a> factory driver Darren Lord is the new 2wd Stock Buggy Champion for Australia in 2015.<\/p>\n

Darren recaps the weekend:<\/p>\n

“With limited practice cause the rain effected both practice days I decided to stay at work and not attend.\u00a0 Getting updates from guys up there I knew driving on the wet surface was not going to be any advantage at all cause the weather should be fine for race days I made the decision to just attend race day and use the 1 practice round of 5 mins to learn the track before going into qualifying.<\/p>\n

Track was back to high grip and was a real fun track and after practice one I was 6th on the time sheet but only 0.1 of fastest lap time. Slight battery position change and I was ready and feeling confident going into 4 rounds of qualifying.\u00a0 I was running a YZ-2 Yokomo buggy with a brand new Gen2 17.5<\/a><\/strong> motor and Gen2 Rs ESC<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0, the power and smoothness of this combination was awesome geared to 72\/34 had plenty of speed and punch.
\nI TQ rounds 1 , 2 and 4 after I tried a few things in round 3 which did not work so I went back to original set up, so after securing the TQ it was onto the finals to be best 2 of 3 to count.<\/p>\n

I admit the pressure got to me with silly mistakes in final 1 and with 2 in the 1st lap I dropped to 9th after lap one , this got me thinking wow that’s not good so I put my head down and for the next 4 minutes I passed 7 other cars to get back to secure good points in 2nd place and walk off a bit disappointed but I knew that’s a decent result to start with.<\/p>\n

So with final 1 out of my mind and on the grid for final number 2. Deep breaths and on the sound of the tone I drove away from the field and had a nice lead by the end of lap one and went on with no crashes to win final 2 and was right back to lead the points over all going into final 3<\/p>\n

Final 3 , and again at the sound of the tone I was away and had a great little buffer when I heard that car 5 who was the only person that could be beat me on points was involved\u00a0 in a couple of crashes and to be honest after I heard this on the scoring update I went into cruise mode knowing I could not lose the title from here on , but I did ease of a tad to much that let 2nd place catch up and I had to pull my head in and drive away from the field to secure the win and the National Title for 2wd Stock Buggy.<\/p>\n

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Day 2 race day is 4wd day<\/p>\n

Again with 1 round of practice in the morning then into 4 rounds of qualifying I thought I should be on the pace and I was just off pace but finished in the top 5 after practice.<\/p>\n

Slight change in set up and I was ready for qualifying with my Bmax3 running a Gen2 17.5<\/a><\/strong> motor and just the RS Gen2 Spec ESC<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0again power and smoothness was awesome gearing for this buggy was 72\/33 with motor timing.<\/p>\n

With a very heavily sugared track set up was a challenge and I just did not get it quite right and I ended up 2nd after qualifying with 2nds in 3 of the 4 rounds.<\/p>\n

Not the result I was looking for but still starting from 2nd on the grid was going to be a good position to chase the leader down I thought.<\/p>\n

Final 1 with the track breaking up a bit I found a double , double section was playing havoc with my line through that section and it would end up making me crash there in both finals 1 and 2 where I would have to come back through the field to chase but the leader was gone.\u00a0 Final 1 I did get back to 2nd and final 2 I could only get back to 3rd<\/p>\n

So with 1st place secure and him not running the 3rd final it meant that the final positions were not secure. So with no one in front of me and a race plan changed for the section that I was crashing on everything went to plan and honestly I believe if I had made the adjustments in the earlier finals results might have been different but that’s why it’s called racing we are all way learning but onto final 3 with not even 1 bobble it was a perfect run with me winning final 3 and securing 2nd place with a faultless run and winning by over 10 seconds was a great end to a fantastic weekend at a national titles.<\/p>\n

So final results were\u00a02wd Stock Buggy TQ and Win, and\u00a04wd Stock Buggy q2 and 2nd overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tekin factory driver Darren Lord is the new 2wd Stock Buggy Champion for Australia in 2015. Darren recaps the weekend: “With limited practice cause the rain effected both practice days I decided to stay at work and not attend.\u00a0 Getting updates from guys up there I knew driving on the \u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2402,"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\/2401"}],"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=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}