Author: Randy Pike

The 6 race series hosted by Carolina RC and held at various race tracks in the region for each event proved to make for a very tight race series. When the points were totaled Tekin pilot Dennis Allison would take the 2wd Open Pro 2 SCT class and the Open 4wd Pro 4 SC class titles! Congratulations Dennis! 

Dennis used the RS Pro and Tekin Redline 8.5 motor to power his Pro 2 victory. In his Pro 4 Dennis chose the Rx8 and Pro 4 4600.

The 2011 Utah State Champs hosted by IR-CR Raceway in Magna Utah saw fierce competition in nearly ever class. Raer’s from as far asWyoming, Colorado, Idaho were in attendance.


Tekin team driver Tony Newland Tq’d nearly every round(all but one) of 13.5 2wd and 17.5 2wd and won both classes using a RS Pro and Redline 17.5 in both! 

Tekin Team driver Jason Smith Tq won Stock Short Course Pro 2, Aaron Eastman took 2nd in Pro 4 followed by Jason Smith in 3rd. Both Aaron and Jason used Rx8 and Pro 4 motors to take these top positions.

The 2011 Turkey Shootout at Hemet Competition Raceway on November 19, 2011 had over 100 entries and 12 heats of RC racing action.

Mike’s Hobbyshop in Houston Texas hosted the 2011 RC Pro Finals with great success. The track and pavilion were extended a few months ago in order to host this event and it definitely paid off.

I would be defending my electric title this year. However, you know how once in a while you just have those races where nothing connects, you break in back to back qualifiers before the buzzer goes, the track feels so good that you just can’t help driving like a maniac, and your leading by a large margin with a few laps to go and the car just stops? Yup, that was me at this race. So no matter how hard you try things can still go wrong to the best of us.

I put in a few good runs in electric to get myself into the 3rd qualifying position behind Lutz and Dellinger so I was feeling good about a shot there. Lutz had amazing pace and I could match his average laptimes but he would have 3 or 4 laps that were around a half second faster than his average. So for the mains the RC8.2e was amazing and I had chosen AKA SS Impacts that were almost worn completely down because I had adjusted my setup to remove as much traction as possible. My goal was to get up to Ryan right out the gate and put in my best laps hoping if I could stay in his sights he may make a bobble before he could get into his time warp zone. A1 I had a great start but came up an inch short on the triple right in front of a marshal but another car had wrecked on an earlier jump that had been forgotten so he was trying to yell at another marshal to get him while every car went by. Now in 12th and 13 seconds down from the leader I made it back up to third by 5 minutes in and I was pleased with this because Dellinger was the only one I was in contention for the title with and I had enough lead in points to finish 2 positions overall below him to win. As I get lapped by Lutz, yeah I know! He begins to have some form of issue with his car so I got my embarrassing lap back and start charging to find that Dellinger had lost a rear turnbuckle so with 2 laps to go I take the lead and boy did I need those points and I was glad to take them! In A2 I had a good start and got into second on the first lap but my game plan failed again because Lutz immediately dipped into the 27 second laps but this time our fastest lap were just 3 tenths apart so I was feeling confident I could put pressure on in A3 and finishing 2nd in A2 I had already won the title s o it was all or nothing. A3 I get a great start, move into second on the first lap and hold onto Lutz for the first 3 laps before I wrecked again on the triple losing 10 seconds. From that point I just wanted a 27 second lap and every time I got close I would have to pass someone so I settled with 28.0 again!

Winning the Electric National Title again!!!!

Thank you to all my sponsors: Team Associated, Reedy, AKA, KO Propo, Tekin, Avid, Upgrade, FTW, BCE, EB Mods, Paint by Smiley


Words by David Joor

Alain Sarafyan piloted his Tekin powered HPI Vorza 1/8 Buggy to an overall 1st place! Alan used the Rx8 esc and T8 2250 motor to power him to victory in all 4 races.


The race was scheduled from July 3rd ending September 4th. The 4 stage event as hosted by Snappy Raceway in Istanbul / Turkey.

Held in Spokane Washington the 11th Annual Dave Mapston Memorial race was held October 21-23rd.

Brandon qualified 2nd and finished 2nd in the 1/8th electric buggy class! Quite a feat considering it was his first race meet with his Tekin Powered Xray 808e. Over 148 total entries for the weekend. Great job Brandon.

Jeremy Felles reports on the Roar Region 8 Regionals hosted by the Omaha HobbyPlex this past weekend Jeremy Tq’d  3 of 4 rounds. Jeremy ended up with the Overall Tq and win in Electric 1/8 Buggy with his Tekin Powered Hotbodies Ve8!

Paul Timberlatke checks in after having just started their Winter Series over the weekend. Round 1 of this years MAM series took place at the impressive multi surface venue, Kidderminster MCC. With the Indian summer continuing over this weekend the 80 drivers booked in enjoyed temperatures of 27 degrees!!! Paul Qualified 7th in the A taking 3rd in the main of 2wd Mod buggy.

“This was the largest class of the event with 23 entries. Starting 5th in the A I decided I was going to make a hard push to the front early so the leaders didn’t get away early. This played out well for me, after the second lap I had takin the lead and started stretching the gap. I would continue on uncontested and lapping the entire 12 truck field, except 2nd and 3rd which were 9 and 20 seconds back! My Tekin RX8/Pro4 powered Ofna Nexx 10SC was a rocket ship and was on rails! As always I have to thank Ofna, Tekin, Avid, BCE and Fastlane Graphix for their awesome support and products! They help me go fast and look good every week!”  Jubal Dike