{"id":57,"date":"2013-10-29T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/wordpress\/?p=57"},"modified":"2013-10-29T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:14:00","slug":"kingsbury-checks-in-from-rd2-of-the-jconcepts-super-cup-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/kingsbury-checks-in-from-rd2-of-the-jconcepts-super-cup-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingsbury checks in from Rd2 of the Jconcepts Super Cup Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was round number 2 of the JConcepts Supercup at Bashers Rc Raceway in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. \u00a0Basically a state race bringing in all the top level drivers from around the state.<\/p>\n<p>Being a small indoor track, the layout had good flow to it and was fun to drive. A few tricky sections of the track had you drive conservatively while other sections you had to attack. \u00a0A track with 14 second laps, if you had a few wrecks you could easily be down a lap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>pilot Brett Kingsbury reports:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3HLqz8_kz7U\/Um_ef0emwTI\/AAAAAAAAGUQ\/25NgmOTh7MQ\/s1600\/podium.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3HLqz8_kz7U\/Um_ef0emwTI\/AAAAAAAAGUQ\/25NgmOTh7MQ\/s400\/podium.JPG\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;After getting used to the track on Friday, I set my cars up to drive easy in order to make consistent laps. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>powered B44 and C4.2 had great power all weekend running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/redline_gen2.html\" target=\"_blank\">7.5 and 8.5 gen 2 motors<\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rs_gen1.html\" target=\"_blank\">RS Pro<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/rs_gen1.html\" target=\"_blank\">RS<\/a> speed controllers, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>During Qualifying in 4wd, it was arch rival Daimon and I gunning for the top spot. After qualifying was over he earned the TQ with myself sitting in 2nd. In 2wd I qualified 5th overall.<\/p>\n<p>For the mains, I gained the lead after a couple laps into the race until a wreck put me back to 2nd. I ended up on the podium finishing 2nd. In 2wd, during a pass for the 3rd position I ended up in the pipe. After a tough drive trying to make up positions I finished a hard fought 6th.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tekin <\/a>for the great equipment they support me with. I have had no issues with my equipment and the ESC I run in my B44 I have used since 2009.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was round number 2 of the JConcepts Supercup at Bashers Rc Raceway in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. \u00a0Basically a state race bringing in all the top level drivers from around the state. Being a small indoor track, the layout had good flow to it and was fun \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/kingsbury-checks-in-from-rd2-of-the-jconcepts-super-cup-series\/\"> 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\/57"}],"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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamtekin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}