The 2013 CRCRC Electric Midwest Championships at the Ohio RC Factory in Jeffersonville, OH were held January 9th-13th. There were 350+ 1/10 scale buggies, stadium trucks, SCT and 1/8 scale electric buggies in attendance for the 5 day event. Wednesday and Thursday were practice days, with a seeding round ran at the end of Thursday to set up qualifiers. Qualifying consisted of 4 rounds of qualifiers using qual points. Two rounds on Friday and two on Saturday, and then some of the lower mains were ran Saturday evening. The rest of the mains were ran on Sunday.
In 2w Stock Buggy Tekin Team driver Jubal Dike put his Gen 2 17.5 RS powered B4.1wc on pace early on. Jubal would exchange Tq rounds with John Mcintosh who also Tq’d a pair of rounds. Little did they know this was setting up to be an epic battle down to the very end between these two! Triple A mains were set, John starting first on the grid and Jubal in second. At the tone for A1, John traction rolled the first corner letting Jubal get away never looking back taking an uncontested victory. A2 started pretty similar as John would bobble early on the first lap giving the lead once again to Jubal who would stretch out to a several second lead. With about a minute to go Jubal bobbled over the very large double double front section. This ultimately allowed John to catch and pass him for the lead with 2 laps to go. Jubal was able to catch back up and make an aggressive but clean pass on John at the end of the back stretch but the front section would bite Jubal again, giving the lead back to John giving him the win for A2. At the tone of A3 the two took off clean and in the second corner Jubal would make a costly mistake stuffing himself into the tube allowing the entire field to get by. Jubal was able to make several strong runs towards the front but just couldn’t stay “clean” enough to quite make it there and ended up 4th. John would take the win giving him the overall, Jubal in 2nd and Chris Emilio in 3rd. John and Jubal had an epic battle of will and abilities for 3 full days and they both congratulated each other on each of our victories. Good, clean, hard racing but with respect and fun at the same time.
Jubal used the following Tekin equipment:
TT1152 Tekin RS Esc
TT2405 17.5 Redline Gen2
TT1450 Hotwire USB Device
Fellow Tekin teammate Matt Olson was also in attendance. Matt ended up TQ’ing and winning A2 and A3 in the Pro4 SC class. Matt’s Tekin powered MIP Pro4mance 4×4 SC was was untouchably fast all weekend long. Matt was not alone in the 4wd class. Each and every truck in the A-main at the CRCRC Midwest champs was using a Tekin Rx8 and Pro 4 motor! Tekin, class leading horsepower!
“With the bottom end punch that the Tekin Pro 4 4600 possesses I pulled wheelies off the line and pulled everyone out of corners. Thank you Tekin for all the support and great products.” Matt Olson
Matt used the following Tekin equipment:
TT2300 Rx8 Esc
TT2500 Pro 4 4600kv Motor
TT1450 Hotwire USB Device
Recent Team addition to the team Joe Bornhorst made a big splash at the event in the 2wd Pro 2 SC division taking 2nd place to Ryan Cavalieri. While Joe is somewhat new to 1/10 racing he’s sure only get better. Watch out for this kid!
