{"id":28,"date":"2014-01-21T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=28"},"modified":"2014-01-21T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:54:00","slug":"tekin-tears-it-up-at-the-2014-chili-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/tekin-tears-it-up-at-the-2014-chili-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekin tears it up at the 2014 Chili Bowl!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The 2014 Chili Bowl Jr. kicked off in Tulsa, Ok this past weekend starting on wednesday. With over 230 entries going through controlled practice only allowing for 2 runs in each class.<\/p>\n

During the first day of qualifying some issues with the timing system forced the race to drop Q1 to be fair to all in attendance. This helped out Tekin <\/a>team driver Brian Stanton who had a collision while on Tq pace in round one erasing his 14th for the round! Whew! \u00a0That was the good news, the bad news was the last 2 remaining rounds would count, no excuses!<\/p>\n

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Day 2 of qualifying the track was tightening up a bit as the grip was coming up. Stanton was 1st run in his class and laid down a fast but safe run to take a 7th for the round getting him in the fast resort for the last round. Stanton gambled with a drag brake change last minute as he watched a few cars exit the race line upside down to grip rolling! His gamble paid off taking a solid 5th for the round!<\/p>\n

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Mains day was up with Stanton starting from the 5th position in the Midwest Modified class. Brian recaps his main:<\/p>\n

“Going out for my hot lap session, the car was a little free in the turns but after a couple of laps my car was locked in and became a little tight off the turns pulling the front tires off the ground with ease from the Tekin RSX<\/a> & Gen 2 8.5<\/a> motor. \u00a0After making a quick adjustment to get into the turn better, then an adjustment to get off the turns better, I was ready to go. \u00a0It was time to get rolling, literally with a rolling start. \u00a0The first few laps went by like a freight train running around the track before a bobble ahead of me moved me into the 3rd position. \u00a0Only 2 laps later, I got caught up in a back marker accident and spun into the sandy portion near the wall, losing over a lap. \u00a0I was sure my race was done at this point. \u00a0I wanted to get back all the positions that I could and knew that I needed to stay clean to make up these spots. \u00a0 By lap 13 I was back to 4th after dropping to 7th. \u00a0Two laps later, I was up to the 3rd position. \u00a0I could see the second place car in my peripheral vision, but couldn’t make up a lot of time while making my way through traffic. \u00a0Then, with less than 30 seconds to go, I was able to make the pass into second place after a pile up in turn 2. \u00a0As the race ended, only the top two turned in 45 lap runs and I made the climb from as low as 7th back to a second finish position. \u00a0Following the race, I still had plenty of power and traction to pull the front wheels off the ground.” Brian Stanton<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The 2014 Chili Bowl Jr. kicked off in Tulsa, Ok this past weekend starting on wednesday. With over 230 entries going through controlled practice only allowing for 2 runs in each class. During the first day of qualifying some issues with the timing system forced the race to drop Q1 \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\/28"}],"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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}