{"id":247,"date":"2011-12-14T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=247"},"modified":"2011-12-14T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T20:44:00","slug":"mike-applegate-tqs-and-podiums-at-the-jconcepts-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/mike-applegate-tqs-and-podiums-at-the-jconcepts-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Applegate Tq&#8217;s and podiums at the Jconcepts Clash!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This year\u2019s clash was held in Coral Springs, Florida at CSRCCC.\u00a0 The weather did not cooperate all weekend which brought wet and muddy track conditions.\u00a0 Qualifying was scheduled to run four qualifiers, however due to weather it was cut to only two.\u00a0 I ran 3 classes, stock buggy, stock truck, and Pro 2 Stock Short course.\u00a0 I won all my heats in all three classes, but qualifying proved to be how good the track conditions were during your run.\u00a0 After qualifying I was sitting 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in stock buggy and truck, and TQ in Pro 2 Stock.\u00a0 I ended up finishing 5<sup>th<\/sup> in stock buggy, and dnf&#8217;d after leading stock truck due to a ball cup snapping, and finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in Pro 2 Stock short course after a complete downpour during the main.\u00a0 The mains were 8 minutes and with the muddy conditions I was concerned about the extra weight hurting run times and burning up motors, but I ended up with the same gearing and everything was solid to the very end.\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekins<\/a> were powerful and fast all weekend\u00a0!<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-LJiyO8pyGzs\/TukJ7t8LWGI\/AAAAAAAABA0\/iBaM9HUfmFM\/s1600\/Clash.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-LJiyO8pyGzs\/TukJ7t8LWGI\/AAAAAAAABA0\/iBaM9HUfmFM\/s320\/Clash.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span>Equipment used:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin RS Speed Controls<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/blmotors.html#redlines\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin Redline Motors<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s clash was held in Coral Springs, Florida at CSRCCC.\u00a0 The weather did not cooperate all weekend which brought wet and muddy track conditions.\u00a0 Qualifying was scheduled to run four qualifiers, however due to weather it was cut to only two.\u00a0 I ran 3 classes, stock buggy, stock truck, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/mike-applegate-tqs-and-podiums-at-the-jconcepts-clash\/\"> 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\/247"}],"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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}