On May 4th, 2013 LCRC Raceway in Oakland Mills, PA hosted the Mid-Atlantic Roar Region 2 – Race 2.

Tekin powered Joe Bornhorst would take the win in the 1/8 E Buggy Class. The field was deep with  5 heats of 1/8 E-Buggy, 51 total drivers in the class. When the tone sounded for the start of A1, Gunnar Rieck and Joe Bornhorst started to check out from the pack. They were nose to tail for the first couple of minutes, having an amazing race, and neither of them were making any mistakes. At about the 2:30 mark, Bornhorst’s  car started to act a little weird as the right rear wheel was bouncing in the air. Later found out to be a broken shock shaft so Bornhorst was running on only a spring. Bornhorst kept pushing forward to try and finish as strong as he could. A slight mistake Bornhorst would up the inside line, and Gunnar got around.  After a few more laps, Gunnar got caught up with a wrecked lapped car, and Bornhorst got back around! At this point, they were right back where they started, nose to tail and having a very close battle. Bornhorst took advantage of a couple of mistakes by Rieck, and started to slightly pull away. With about a 2.5 sec lead, the announcer called one minute to go, and he knew that he just had to bring it home for the win. Bornhorst did just that, and came around for the A1 win!

Going into A2, Bornhorst knew that he just needed a solid race to get the overall win. When the tone sounded, it didn’t exactly go to plan.. Bornhorst caught a tube in the second turn, going straight to the back of the pack. On the first lap Bornhorst took advantage of everyone being bottled up together, and made a handful of passes within the matter of a couple of sections. Bornhorst came around on the first lap in the 6th position. Pushing as hard as he could, Bornhorst made it all of the way up to the 3rd spot with two minutes to go. On the last lap of the race, Bornhorst made a last minute pass for 2nd, and finished there. I then knew it would come down to a tie breaker of overall time for the win between Anthony Mazzara and Joe. The race sheets to be posted, and to Bornhorst relief, he won the tie breaker along with winning the overall!

Serpents own Paul Cicarello would take the E Truggy win with his Tekin Rx8 T8 2000kv powered Serpent electric truggy.

Video of the Ebuggy Mains:

The 2013 ROAR nationals warm up was held at Gulf Coast RC Raceway in Porter, Texas.  The weekend event included the electric buggy class which provided some extra run time on the track and another opportunity for some close racing on the very high bite track .  This allowed the Tekin Team drivers to put the power of their Tekin systems to the ground and run some really fast laps.

On Saturday there were three 7 minute qualifiers using rocket round to determine the starting order for the main event.  We were able to qualify first by a small margin over Jake Dillinger and Tekin powered David Joor.  The main started with a very close group battling for the top spot.  After all of the top three swapping positions numerous times Tekin powered Barry Pettit was able to pull a small lead and finish the race in the first position. Barry was joined by Tekin teammate Brian “Smiley” Henn in 3rd.

“We ran the Tekin RX-8 with the T8 2050 motor powered by the Protek batteries.  This combination helped our Mugen MBX-6 ECO put all the power to the ground and hook up our JConcepts rubber!”  Barry Pettit

Brian Henn continued the Tekin dominance taking the overall Tq and win in the 4wd SC class with his Tekin Rx8 Pro 4 HD powered TLR Scte 2.0.

This weekend we had the first Rose Classis Offroad Championships at Speedworld Raceway in Roseville, CA.  Speedworld is known around the globe for world class on-road racing.  Owner Billy Bowerman and his crew built many wooden jumps, including a couple of 10 foot long table tops.  The weather was hot and there was some great racing action.

In 2wd  SC open, Jason “Mo” Moberly’s Tekin Pro2 5100kv/RX8 Gen 2 powered Durango DESC210, wired with new Tekin Flex Jacket wire was on fire.  Moberly TQ’d every round except one when the darn mechanic (himself) didn’t properly tighten down the pinion after a gear ratio change.  In the main Mo lead from tone to tone, taking the win by over a lap with a fast lap over a second ahead of anyone else.  Temperatures were close to 90 degrees and the Tekin RX8 Gen 2 and Tekin Pro 2 never broke a sweat, even without a fan.

The Warehouse Raceway located in Helena Alabama hosted the Southeastern Indoor Classic. With well over 120+ entries the racing was tight and fun. Drivers from Tennessee, GA, Alabama, and other near by states all in attendance.

Tekin powered Mark Moon put both his Tekin RS Gen 2 esc Redline Gen2 motor powered Open 2wd SCT and Open 2wd buggy into the A mains in both classes. Moon finished 2nd in Open SCT and would take the big win in Open 2wd buggy!

“The new esc are so smooth, and consistent. The new Gen 2 RS is so much smoother than the old RS!” Mark Moon

Tekin teammate Blane Allen Tq’d Open Stadium truck using a Tekin RS Gen 2 esc and Gen 2 8.5 motor. Allen would go on to take 2nd behind teammate Moon in 2wd Open Buggy and take the win in Open ST truck!

“Plenty of top end and a smooth but strong bottom end that was great for clearing a tricky double double.” Blane Allen

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!