Category: Race Team News

Round five of the Western Canadian Indoor Champs series was held in Oceanside City, BC. Hosted by IROCC and NRC. The two clubs hosted what was referred to as “the round you can’t miss” by many.  230+ entries strong with all 8 classes having deep competition proved everyone was prepared to battle.  This is the second half of the season and guys were itching to get results.

In Mod TC Tekin powered Dave Ehrlich would Tq every round as well as take to a solid win. Dave chose the Tekin RSX esc and Redline Gen2 4.5T motor.

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Dave Ehrlich continued to dominate qualifying with his Tekin powered VBC cars in the premier modified classes. Dave would Tq the 1/12 Mod class, set fastest lap, and take the win!  Dave once again chose the Tekin RSX esc and Redline Gen2 series of motors to take down the competition.

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Dave Ehrlich would once again take a Tq spot this time in WGT using a RS Gen2 esc this time. Dave would get some fierce competition from 2013 Champ Korgae Scales who would overtake Dave on lap 5 and fend him off the remainder of the race to take the win, followed by Dave in 2nd.

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Held at Flowood RC park in Flowood Mississippi 285 entries would make for a busy schedule. Open practice on Friday gave everyone plenty of time to get up to speed with the layout and conditions. Three qualifiers would be on the schedule to sort the A’s.

Tekin powered Ryan Lutz would make a huge push running 5 classes!  Round one of qualifiers would have Lutz on top in all 5 classes: 1/8 E Buggy, 1/8 E Truggy, 4wd SC, Nitro buggy, and nitro truggy.  Round 2 Lutz would nearly repeat the feat but lost out in 1/8 E buggy. Q3 This time Lutz would again Tq 4 of 5 rounds missing Nitro buggy this round. So 5 classes, 4 Tq’s going into triple A’s. Martin Harrison would take 4th in E buggy, 2nd in E truggy and 3rd in Pro4 SC Truck.

Triple A-mains were up and Pro4 SC truck was up first. Lutz was on a mission taking A1 and A2 uncontested. Martin Harrison was on point to finish higher than the 4th he settled for having a mechanical failure in A3 taking 4th overall still. Lutz would chose the award winning Tekin Rx8 Gen2 esc and Pro4 HD 4300kv motor to power his Tekno SCT410 to the top position.

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1/8 E Truggy was up next and again Ryan Lutz would start on point.  Lutz would thermal his Tekin powered Tekno ET48 not having a fan installed opening the door for Tekin teammate Martin Harrison to take the win. Lutz would not repeat his mistake in A2 taking convincing a win. Going into A3 there would be a three way tie for the overall between Lutz, Harrison, and McCoy.  Lutz would get out in front with Harrison in tow from tone to tone finishing this way in the overall.  Both Lutz and Harrison chose the award winning Tekin Rx8 Gen2 and T8 Gen2 motors.

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1/8 E buggy was a heavily contested class all weekend. Lutz would start from P1 being kept honest but Jake Dellinger the entire time. Dellinger would make a few mistakes allowing Ryan to take A1 easily. A2  however was a hard fought battle the entire 10 minutes. The two would swap the lead too many times to count. On the last lap Dellinger would put a pass on Lutz forcing an A3 battle!  A3 was a brawl same as A2, but a few minute in Dellinger would bobble allowing Lutz to capitalize pulling a gap and taking A3 and the overall win. Great racing! Martin Harrison would take 3rd overall right behind the epic battle putting in a great drive as well. Lutz and Harrison both chose the Rx8 Gen2 and T8 Gen2 motors to take top positions on the podium.

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Savannah GA was host to race the Colonels Winter Classic. There were about 261 race entries and the Savannah crew did a great job with the program.

The first class up was 2wd and it was awesome! With 30 racers in this class. At the sound of the tone Viesins, Melton, and Hanna took off wheels spinning. With in a lap or two, Viesins and Griffin were able to make a move into the 1 and 2 spot. They battled the whole 10 min race trading places with each other. Hanna was able to get into the lead. The racing got exciting with Viesins last min charge to try and take the lead but finished in the 2 spot. Tim Smith took the 3rd spot. Griffin was able to take the win with his Tekin RSX Redline Gen2 powered Serpent Spyder.

Pro 1/8 E Buggy was up next with John Michael McGinty taking Tq honors. From the tone Mcginty ran pretty much a perfect race and lead start to finish. Viesins has mechanical issues and pulled out. Griffin was able to finish in the 2 spot but Associated driver Chris Pace didn’t make it easy early on. He put the pressure on the first half of the race. Pace would hold down the 3 spot. John Michael would take the win followed by Griffin Hanna in 2nd. Both drivers choosing the award winning Tekin Rx8 Gen2 and T8 Gen2 power system.

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This past weekend LSR Speedway hosted it’s Icebreaker race. Racers from all over Norcal and the surrounding states such as Nevada would converge to battle out for big wins, fun and clean racing.

Tekin driver Derek Stephansen would have an up and down weekend having missed open practice on friday. He would continue to improve his times around the track just in time to peak in the mains. The 2wd SC class was Tq’d by Kyle Layton and the triple A-main format would make for some exciting racing. A1 would be a battle between the top 3 coming down to the last laps where Derek would take 3rd. Derek would make a costly mistake again settling for 3rd. It would come down to A3 for the overall. Tq was out of contention having a dnf in A2 so it was all or nothing going into this main. Jason Gainey was the only other driver that could take the overall but would break out in A3 allowing Stephansen to cruise to an overall win. Derek chose the Tekin RSX and Redline Gen2 7.5T to power his TLR SCT 2.0 to the win.

Stephansen would continue to put in a huge effort taking on the local track heros taking 2nd in the 4wd Mod buggy class with his Tekin RSX 6.5 Redline Gen2 powered TLR 22-4 buggy.

Justin Moon would battle hard for a 3rd place in the 2wd Mod Buggy class with his Tekin RSX 7.5 Redline Gen2 powered B5m.

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The Italian Job was held at the IBR Padova in Italy this past weekend. Some of the fastest “euro” drivers you’d expect to see were in attendance such as Riccardo Berton, Martin Wollanka, Alessandro Stocco, Robert Battle, Renaud Savoya, Lee Martin , Fabrizio Teghesi , and Alex Zanchettin.

Elliott Boots would take the overall Tq and win in the 1/8 E Buggy class with his Tekin powered Kyosho buggy. Elliott was running the award winning Tekin Rx8 Gen2 and T8 Gen2 1900kv combination. Please help vote for these items in the RC Car Action Reader’s Choice awards by clicking HERE

Tekin factory drivers showed up ready to go at the 2015 CRCRC Midwest Champs.  Held at the The Ohio RC Factory, entries sold out quickly with 480 entries total.

Joe Bornhorst would be on a mission this weekend to Tq the 1/8 E buggy and 4wd SC classes with his Tekin powered Tekno rides. He would have his work cut out for him as Tekin teammates such as MIP’s Matt Olson, TLR’s Dylan Gerard and Max Flurer , Paul Ciccarello from Serpent, as well as list of other drivers would not make it easy.

JB would lead wire to wire in A1 and repeat this feat again in A2 to make in 2 and done for the overall win! Dylan Gerard would take a well earned 2nd place overall after winning A3.  Paul Ciccarello would join them on the box in 3rd overall with ultra consistent driving with a lap deviation of .75 on average in every main!  All 3 drivers would be using the award winning Tekin Rx8 Gen2 esc and T8 Gen2 line of motors.

Joe Bornhorst would go on to take the overall Tq position in the 4wd SC division, once again duking it out with his Tekin teammates to do so.  The triple A-mains would be some of the best racing of the weekend. Matt Olson would take over the lead after JB would make a mistake dropping back in the field. Olson wouldn’t give up the lead and would go on to take A-1. A-2  was a great race with quite a few drivers taking the lead. After an early mistake off the infield triple, JB would drop back. Olson would take the lead only to crash on the same section on the next lap! Gerard and Rippee would get out into 1-2 and put in some clean laps. As the laps clicked off Joe Bornhorst would put on a charge taking over the lead and the win in the last few laps. A-3 JB would again have an issue on the opening lap. This time getting the racers “roll” he would only drop back one spot and quickly regain the lead. Matt Olson was hot on his heals and those two would put in some fast laps creating a gap back to 3rd. A few little bobbles from Olson would allow JB to take the win comfortably. All 3 Tekin drivers on the podium would choose the Tekin Rx8 Gen2 and a Pro4 HD 4300kv motor.

 Tekin/TLR driver Max Flurer would also make a big showing in the 2wd Mod Pro2 SC truck division.  Taking a well earned 3rd place overall with his Tekin RSX Redline Gen2 powered TLR 22 SCT 2.0 truck. Flurer would also make an A-main appearance in the 2wd mod buggy class using the same power package.

Recently RC Clubhouse in Warren, MI held the 1st Anniversary Race.  Tekin powered Nick Vasquez won the E-buggy class with his RX8 Gen2/T8 Gen2 1700kv powered HB D812e and won the 1/10th scale 4wd Buggy class with his RSX/6.5T powered HB D413.

December 26 Beach Hobbies in Myrtle Beach, SC hosted their 1st annual Jingle Bell Jam.
There were 125 entries for this event with open practice Friday, quals and mains Saturday and Sunday.

2wd Mod Buggy had Tekin drivers Max Flurer, Giffin Hanna, and John Michael McGinty III. After some good racing, small bobbles and clean passes, Max Flurer would take the win. Following Max were Griffin Hanna and John Michael.  Max, Griffin, and John all chose the Tekin RSX and Redline Gen2 motors to power them to the podium.

In 4wd buggy he John Michael and Max Flurer would share Tq rounds with Flurer taking the overall going into the mains. At the start of the race they took off and Max rolled it over just after the finish line on his second lap. JM took the lead and would end up lapping the field twice to take the win.  Both JM and Flurer again chose the Tekin RSX and Redline Gen2 motors.

This past weekend, round 4 of the Ohio/Kentucky Winter Points Series was held at Adventure RC Raceway in Louisville, KY. Racers from Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Indiana were in attendance to make up an impressive 248 entries. The field was very stacked in all classes.

Tekin Racing driver Dylan Gerard set the TQ in both 2wd and 4wd modified buggy and would go on to win both classes after the double A-main format.

Gerard’s cars were both equipped with Tekin RSX speed controls with a 5.5t powering his 4wd buggy and a 8.5t Redline Gen2 powering his 2wd buggy.

Matt Olson checks in from Round 2 of the TNS Series:

“What a way to end the year with a great weekend out at TNS Round #2 held by Coyote Hobbies in Victorville CA. I ended up with a TQ and Win in 1/8 buggy with my MIP Pro8 super light E-buggy powered by Tekin Gen2 speedo and Tekin 1950KV T8i motor. I held the fastest lap times all weekend in 1/8 scale and second fastest single lap overall for the track record just getting edged out by 4×4 1/10 buggy. All the equipment performed flawlessly and couldn’t have done it without the right power-plant. Thank you Tekin!”  Matt Olson

L2R Lucas Sanford 2nd, Matt Olson 1st, Tyler Robinson 3rd.

Lucas Sanford chimes in as well:

“I cannot express how happy I am with the performance of my Kyosho MP9e TKI on AKA clay Typos. The Tekin T8i motor and RX8 Gen 2 ESC was perfect for the very small Coyote Hobbies layout, and even though the car was 440 grams heavier than some of the eBuggy Lite cars, with the correct tires, the MP9e still ran slightly faster lap times.”