{"id":329,"date":"2011-02-23T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-02-23T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:35:00","slug":"eric-anderson-kills-em-at-the-2011-mid-west-grand-slam-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/eric-anderson-kills-em-at-the-2011-mid-west-grand-slam-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Anderson kills ’em at the 2011 Mid West Grand Slam finale!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2011 season finale of the Midwest Grand Slam series was held at R\/Car Marion Fairgrounds raceway in Indianapolis, Indiana. It would be the final race of the season in the Midwest traveling race series. The format would be open practice on Friday, 3 qualifiers on Sat and 1 qualifier and Mains on Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n


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Arriving Friday night for a couple of hours of practice I noticed how great the facility was on my first trip there. James Reilly looked to be setting the fastest pace in stock TC in practice. After a few battery packs on the track with my Tekin powered T3’11 and XII 12th scale I felt like I was in good shape for Saturday. Arriving Saturday morning I decided to try some different tires in practice and they did not seem to be as good so back to Jaco blues for the rest of the weekend. After 1 round of controlled practice I was in the top 5 of practice times. In 12th scale I was in the top 5 as well in practice times going into the first round of qualifying. After the first round I as sitting 3rd in TC with some mistakes . In 12th scale I was in 7th and the car was not handling as I would like so I decided to make some major changes to it and skip the 2nd round of qualifying. In the 2nd round if TC I set fastest time to take the TQ and would keep it for the remainder of the event running faster in rounds 3 and 4. After some MAJOR changes to the 12th scale and a complete reconfiguration I sat the car down in the 3rd qualifier no knowing what to expect. What happened was I picked up almost 2 complete laps and TQ’d round 3 and held it throughout the weekend. <\/p>\n

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<\/a>Final Qualifying order would be<\/b>: TC Stock Blinky.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
TQ Eric Anderson (Xray) (Tekin)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
2nd James Reilly (Xray)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a03rd Junior Norton\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
4th Branden Shells\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
5th Bill Sydor\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
6th Greg Dobrosky\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a07th Randy Kastl\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
8th William Jossens\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
9th Rob Rabenstein\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
10th Robert Dirla (Xray). (Tekin)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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12th Stock Open:<\/span><\/div>\n
TQ Eric Anderson (Xray) (Tekin)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
2nd Brad Mergy (Tekin)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
3rd Joe Trandell (Tekin)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
4th Robert Dirla (Tekin)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
5th Steve Dunn (Tekin)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
6th Ken Miller (Tekin)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
7th Lee Harpe\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
8th Sean Bushnell (Tekin)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
9th Rob Rabenstein (Tekin)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
10th Ian Ruggles\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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The mains were pretty clean and I was able to get a clean start in both to lead from start to finish and make it a clean sweep in both classes. The race was ran perfect all weekend and R\/Car has a wonderful facility and I hope they have some more big races there! Thanks to Tekin, RCAmerica, Xray , and\u00a0Hudy\u00a0!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u00a0Thanks EA\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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