{"id":3001,"date":"2017-03-28T19:45:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2017-03-28T19:45:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:45:59","slug":"potter-wins-top-gun-off-road-carpet-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/potter-wins-top-gun-off-road-carpet-shootout\/","title":{"rendered":"Potter wins Top Gun Off-Road Carpet Shootout!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tekin&#8217;s very own customer service manager Jeremy Potter recaps his race weekend:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This past weekend I attended the Top Gun Offroad Carpet Shootout held at the Benton County Fairgrounds. Practice went well, breaking in the tires and learning the track as traction got higher and higher with more laps being put down by everyone. There was 4 rounds of qualifying with rocket round format being used. At the end of Q4 I would start in P3 for 4wd Mod Buggy with my Xray XB4 &#8217;17 and P4 in 2wd Mod Buggy with the Xray XB2 CE &#8217;17.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3002 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/topgun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/topgun.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/topgun-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/topgun-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/topgun-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/topgun-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/topgun-268x201.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2wd Buggy, the racing was really tight and close from front to back. I was able to take the win in A1 and A3 to secure the overall victory. \u00a0Both systems ran flawless in very demanding conditions.\u00a0My Tekin powered XB2 CE &#8217;17 was equipped with a <a href=\"http:\/\/teamtekin.com\/rsx.html\"><strong>Tekin\u00a0RSX<\/strong><\/a> esc and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/teamtekin.com\/redline_gen3.html\"><strong>Gen 3 8.5t<\/strong><\/a> motor utilizing the new <a href=\"http:\/\/teamtekin.com\/hotwire.html\"><strong>V258<\/strong><\/a> software.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3004 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27263-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27263-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27263-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27263-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27263-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27263-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27263-268x201.jpeg 268w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27263.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the triple A&#8217;s of 4wd Buggy I would finish 2nd in A1 and A2 and in A3 was able to finish it off with the victory and a 2nd place overall in the class.\u00a0My Tekin powered XB4 &#8217;17 was equipped with a <a href=\"http:\/\/teamtekin.com\/rsx.html\"><strong>Tekin RSX<\/strong><\/a> esc and <a href=\"http:\/\/teamtekin.com\/redline_gen3.html\"><strong>Gen 3 Redline 5.5t<\/strong><\/a> motor running <a href=\"http:\/\/teamtekin.com\/hotwire.html\"><strong>V258<\/strong><\/a> Software.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3003  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27262-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27262-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27262-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27262-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27262-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27262-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27262-268x201.jpeg 268w, https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27262.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tekin&#8217;s very own customer service manager Jeremy Potter recaps his race weekend: &#8220;This past weekend I attended the Top Gun Offroad Carpet Shootout held at the Benton County Fairgrounds. Practice went well, breaking in the tires and learning the track as traction got higher and higher with more laps being \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/potter-wins-top-gun-off-road-carpet-shootout\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3004,"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\/3001"}],"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=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}