Author: Randy Pike

Team Tekin driver Scott Hughes secures a win in the highly anticipated Ultra4 race brought to you by SoCal Rock Crawling Club and RCP Crawlers.

The first true rock race specific course in SoCal at the legendary Glenn Helen Raceway was home to this first time event. Scott’s Tekin controlled Vaterra Twin Hammers by Horizon Hobbies annihilated the course by setting fast time of the day. “ The Tekin FXR proved worthy in the rough terrain by accelerating quickly over the larger obstacles yet having the linear power to navigate the course with confidence,” says Scott.  Look for Scott to report more on the series in the near future.

Round 2 of the RC Pro Series Delta division was held in Shreveport, LA. at TNT Raceway.  Over 100 entries allowed the track to start out pretty smooth with a little dust.  A few computer issues forced event organizers to set up the mains based on qualifying after the re-sort.  This worked to Tekin powered Reggie Tongue’s favor in E-buggy where he would be TQ.

  The computer issues also caused the main times to be lowered. The electric triple A’s were now 5min double A’s.  Reggie had two hard fought battles with Ty Rogers as they swapped leads all the way down to the last lap in both A’s.  In the end Tongue ended up being a little more consistent and won both mains, giving him the overall win in E-Buggy using the Tekin Rx8 and T8 Redline motor programmed with a Hotwire USB.

The KempCraft Truckin Tuesday series consisted of a 12 round series with 2 throw outs. The series ran from early January to 2nd last Tuesday in April 2013 every Tuesday night at GCRC.

Tekin powered Darren Lord would go on to TQ 10 rounds taking 9 wins and 1 2nd place to completely dominate the series for 4×4 SCT. Setting fastest lap times every single week and missing a perfect score by just 1 point!

Lord chose a Tekin RX8 and Pro 4 4600 to power his Team Durango DESC410r to a series title!

The Northwest Championship Tour kicked off outdoor racing here in the northwest with round 1 the Spring Shootout held in Wenatchee, Wa. This years race was the largest to date with around 250 entries.

Tekin powered Nick Buechler would Tq and wind 4wd Mod Buggy after having suffered a mechanical in A1. A2 and A3 would take some work but he’d pull out the overall win when points were tallied. Nick ran a Tekin RS Pro and Redline Gen 2 7.5 programmed by a Tekin Hotwire.

Jason Tjepkema would dominate the 4wd SC class. Overall Tq in the 4wd SC class, Jason would go on to win A1 and A2 in convincing fashion with his Tekin Rx8 and Pro 4HD 4300kv motor.

1/8 Electric Buggy was one of the biggest of the weekend with around 35 entries. In A1 Tekin powered Jayson Tjepkema would take the win over Tekin teammate Nick Buechler four seconds after the 10 minute race. A2 Nick Buechler would take 1st by just a couple seconds over Jayson , Jorden Hestness and Jeremy Potter both 3rd and 4th. It would all come down to A3 for the overall win. A3 had Jayson out front with Nich 2nd behind Jayson when Jayson suffered a mechanical putting Nick about 7 seconds ahead of Jeremy Potter sitting 2nd with 4 minutes to go. Unfortunately Nick would also suffer a mechanical with a shock nut backing off. After it was all added up Tjepkema would take 1st, Nick Buechler 2nd, and Jordan Hestness 3rd. All 3 drivers chose the Tekin Rx8 and T8 Redline motors to power their E Buggies.

Last weekend was the WRL (Winter Racing League) Finals at CRCRC. This was the 6th round of the series that carried all of the way through the winter. Going into the weekend Tekin powered Joe Bornhorst new that he was going to have to have some good runs to finish out the series good, seeing as the fastest drivers in the area were in attendance along with it being a Double Points race. Bornhorst raced both 2wd Buggy and 2wd SCT.

For the first round of qualifying 2wd Buggy was up first, and there was 4 full heats of buggies. Bornhorst  had a solid run for 5th overall and was pretty happy with it, a good start. Next up was 2wd SCT heat. Bornhorst’s truck was on point. Joe came out swinging in this race throwing down a flawless run grabbing the TQ by a couple seconds.  Going into the 3rd and final round of qualifying Bornhorst had a very clean run , bettering his time to a 15/5:09.5. TQ for the day was JP Richards with a 16/5:18.9. This run put me Joe 4th overall. Last qualifier for 2wd SCT and again Joe had a good run, but didn’t better his time while still keeping TQ from his Rd1 time which was a 15/5:17.8.

The 2wd buggy main was highly anticipated by everyone in the building, everyone was watching. When the tone sounded for the 7 minute main Bornhorst stayed in 4th and freight trained away from the pack with the top 3 drivers. 3 minutes into the race and the top 4 had a gap on 5th, all battling for position. No one was making mistakes, going into the last lap Bornhorst really wanted that last podium position and was trying to plan out a pass. Bornhorst  made the pass for the 3rd spot and just brought it around for his third podium of the series in 2wd buggy. When the overall series points were added up Joe’s 3rd place in 2wd buggy put him up into the 3rd spot overall for the series out of 97 total drivers. Joe chose a Tekin RS Pro esc, with a Gen 2 8.5T Motor, along with the Hotwire USB device.

The 2wd SCT A-main tone sounded and Bornhorst would go on to have a flawless run pulling away from the pack leading from tone to tone for a very convincing win over 2nd place JP Richards, and 3rd place Paul Sinclair. With the double points TQ and win in 2wd SCT in the last round it was enough to bring Joe up up into the 1st position for the series edging out Dustin Richards by just one point! Joe chose the Tekin RS Pro esc, with a Gen 2 7.5T Motor, along with the Hotwire USB device.

Team Tekin drivers all converged to the Boulder City, NV.  Team driver such as Ryan Lutz, Adam Drake, Dylan Rodriquez, Chris Miller, and Kyle Johnson would be in attendance all looking to take big wins with their Tekin powered rides.

Early on it was clear that Ryan Lutz was on a mission. Lutz dominated 4wd SC qualifying with his Tekin Rx8 and Pro 4 powered Desc410r taking the first 2 rounds giving him the overall Tq. Ryan would go onto win the A main event lapping the entire field.

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Ryan would continue on taking the overall Tq in the Expert 1/8 Electric Buggy division with this Tekin Rx8 and T8 powered Dex408. Ryan would have stiff competition from Tekin teammate Adam Drake, Dylan Rodriguez all fighting for podium spots during the 10 minute Amain. Lutz would bobble allowing Tebo to get by giving him 2nd place overall with Tekin teammate Dylan Rodriquez taking 3rd from the 11th spot on the grid!

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Pro2 SC had some serious racing. The rough track and win all played part in the qualifying and Amain. Tekin powered Chris Miller would take the overall Tq position with his Tekin RS Redline Gen2 powered Sc truck. Chris would lead each and every lap tone to tone taking the overall win in the Pro2 division.

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Rd 2 of the JBRL Electric series kicked off this past weekend at SDRC Raceway.

Ryan Dunford and Tekin Racing score a hard fought second place this weekend at the JBRL race in San Diego.  The mains were 6 minutes long and all 6 of the minutes were used to battle back and forth between a number of drivers. Wyrick and Dunford would battle back and forth for the last few laps passing one another a couple of times each lap.  In the end of what was a fun race to watch, Wyrick  just edged out Ryan for the win. Dunford chose the new Tekin RS Gen 2 ESC and Gen2 Redline 8.5 Motor.

Matt Olson had a fantastic weekend out at SDRC in 4×4 SC with my Tekin powered MIP Pro4mance Scte. TQing and taking the win over talented Tekno drivers Barry Baker and Chad Panek. Olson’s MIP truck was equipped with Tekin’s all new Pro4 HD 4300KV motor geared 41/16 controlled by the Tekin RX8 esc. “The truck was unbelievably fast, controllable, and the power band produced by the HD motor was smooth and linear.” Olson

Matt would also finish up 5th in 2wd Mod buggy and 4th in 2wd Mod Short course behind factory fast Steven Hartson. Both of my 2wds were equipped with the Tekin RS Pro and 7.5/8.5 Gen 2 motors. “Thank you Tekin for providing me with exceptional high quality products to power my RC passion.”

Brian Henn would debut his Tekin Pro 4HD 4300kv this past weekend at Rd 2 of the RC Pro Texas State Series in Corups Christy, Texas.  Henn would Tq Rd1 and Rd2 securing the overall Tq position for the mains. With temps reaching near 90 degrees on mains day Henn’s Pro 4HD and Rx8 esc would have no issue taking wins in A1 and A2 in dominating fashion securing the overall win of Rd2 of the RC Pro Series Texas division.

Henn would also take down P2 in the 1/8 Pro E Buggy division using his Tekin Rx8 T8 1900 powered HotBodies D12e/Tekno.

Andrew Mowery wins the Minnesota On Road State Championship Series in Stock Sedan.
Mowery used the Tekin RS and Gen 2 17.5 to take 4 TQ’s and 5 wins completing an almost a perfect season and many of the races were with in tenths at the end. “Sedan was really stellar and the Gen 2 Torque 17.5 was super smooth and super fast right from the start.” Mowery

Andrew also took 2nd overall in 1/12 Mod using a Tekin RS Pro and Redline Gen2 4.5 with a of couple wins and Tq’s just a few points out of the top spot.

“I have to say Thank You for the great products and the great support. Gen 2 motors have been truly stellar with great pull and feel, better then any other motor I have run.” Mowery

Capital City RC Raceway in Tallahassee, Fl played host to the 1st Annual Big Bend Off-road Shootout.  There were 172 entries at this event.  Practice was Friday, qualifying was Saturday and the mains were Sunday.

Tekin powered John Michael McGinty TQ’d the first and 3rd round of Pro E-buggy for overall TQ.  McGinty won the first A main and finished 2nd in the A2 A main to take first place overall in Pro E-buggy.

Tekin powered John McGinty Sr. qualified 3rd in the Pro E-Truggy A main.  McGinty Sr. finished 3rd in the A1 main and I finished 2nd in the A2 main which gave me a 3rd place overall.

Both drivers chose the Tekin Rx8 and T8 line of 1/8 Brushless motors to power them to the podium!