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France 1/8 Nats: full Serpent podium with 966

Ronald Baar — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

With Serpent 966 Abisset qualified 2nd and Riccobono 3rd for the 1st National last weekend in Beaumont Monteux.

In the Elite Final Abisset took the win, followed by Serpent Riccobono en young Serpent driver Colinet in 3rd. Serpent CHRISTIANY in 7th as 4th Serpent in the final. Great Show.

In the National class Serpent ace driver Damien THIRION to take TQ...

EC Report Mobers: vice champion 1/12 2010

Ronald Baar — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

European Championship 1/12 at Hinckley, GB

Hello racers, me again, this time reporting from the Euros 1/12 at Hinckley, Great Britan.

The race was held from 04.-07. march 2010.

I arrived at the track on thursday morning and started to unpack and built up my pits for the next 4 days.

The track and the pits were done very nicely by the BRCA, well,...

Germany, Serpent does triple with S400 and S120, again

Ronald Baar — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

Having won the Hildesheim Christmas Cup 2 months ago, Jürgen "Schnelle Henne" Hennemuth, Thomas Plöger and Merlin Depta, all three 2-speed/LMI Racing pilots, again dominatied at Hildesheim Cup's all three classes.
With a perfect result of 600 points, Thomas (S400) and Merlin (S120T) won the Cup at all.
It was the last indoor race so far, sothat now the outdoor...

Victor Pelaez joins Team Serpent Spain

Ronald Baar — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

“The spanish racer Víctor Peláez will use the serpent 733 for this season. The two times Spanish champion and 4º in the Euro B of Ampuis will help the spanish distributor Modelcar promoting the new 733. Víctor had the following to say about the deal:

I would like to thank Modelcar / Serpent for the opportunity they have given me to run the new 733. I will...

Lopez with 966 fast in Spain Nats 1/8

Ronald Baar — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

Hi again racers!
The last weekend the first round of the Spanish Championship was hold in the Modelcar Track in Cerdanyola, close to Barcelona.

This race was my first “big race” with the 966. So I had a lot of work in order to find a good setup of the car. However when I arrived on Friday morning, the track was wet. Until three o’clock the track wasn’t in...

Serpent S120L, vice champion in Belgium

Ronald Baar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

Serpent S120L is Vice-Belgium champion 2010

Last weekend Bart Loomans drove the new S120L to a impressive win, 1 lap in front of second place and 0.5” faster on each lap, with this 1st place on the last round of the Xceed Belgium 1/12th championship, team Serpent Benelux is now vice-Belgium champion for 2010.

Pre-WC 1/10: final results: Serpent win, Paolo

Ronald Baar — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

Paolo Morganti takes victory in very exciting pre world final with his Serpent 733/ NR.

With doing a 16.736, Paolo also managed the 2nd fastest laptimes in the final.

EC 1/12: Mobers vice-champion prostock S120L

Ronald Baar — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

Serpent Markus Mobers took the vice champion title at the Ec 1/12 in the UK.
2nd in one heat and 1 st in the second heat, than 4th in 3rd heat, very well done.

Serpent Drivers Tim Altmann and Richard Hicklin took 1st and 2nd in the B final.

More info: Full Report on www.brca.org

Serpent Italy Tour Cassino

Ronald Baar — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

The Serpent Italy Tour 2010 in Cassino was a great success.

With close to 100 drivers present, a really nice atmosfere and event.

EC 1/12 Saturday, Q results

Ronald Baar — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

End of Qualifying 1/12th EC England

With all qualifying completed, Chris Kerswell heads the field in the Spec class and Juho Lavanen in Modified.

Serpent Team Driver Markus Mobers qualified 4th in Stock and 12th in Modified.

Pre-WC 1/10: qualifying results

Ronald Baar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

The Serpent drivers doing well at the warm-up, even when top 4 was out of reach for now. Many diferent brands to be found in the top 20, so no real domination visible.

Lots of things have been tested and data collected for further test later this year. During our 1st test in November 2009, weather and lap-times were very diferent from now and has major influence....

EC 1/12 UK, Serpent update

Ronald Baar — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

Results at the End of Official Practice 1/12 Electric EC England
(5 March 2010)

Marcus Mobers is leading the Serpent drivers in both Spec and Modified classes finishing 4th in Spec and 8th in Modified.

Pre-WC 1/10 USA: more news from the Serpent pit.

Ronald Baar — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

The heat is starting to build up in Houston with all the top guys turning very fast laptimes.

For Serpent Paolo is fastest, with Mazzeo also doing well and now also Scott getting to grips with this Serpent 733 on this fast track.

More images in the gallery:
http://www.serpent.com/racing/event/44/

Team Serpent

Pre-WC 1/10 first qualifier

Ronald Baar — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

Some first results of the 1st qualifier.

Paolo and Alessio doing well on good on the pace.

Will post more when we have info.

Team Serpent

EFRA 1/12 EC, UK

Ronald Baar — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

The EFRA 1/12 scale Euro's are underway in England, near Birmingham.

Serpent UK is one of the proud sponsors for the event and also have a booth to show all new Serpent products, including the Serpent S120 Link, the S100 pan car, the Serpent 966-e version and last but not least the Serpent Cobra 1/8th buggy is on show there as well.

So come by the booth...

S120 Link good showing in the UK

Ronald Baar — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

Race report from last week end at the new Ardent raceway track, attached video link.

Last weekend was the Grand Opening of Ardent Racing New Raceway, permanent electric track situated in Derby UK.

Ardent Racing have created a fantastic facility in little more than three weeks. Well done to everyone involved in the project, Great Job.

WC 1/10 gas warm-up Houston

Ronald Baar — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

Team Serpent America is present at the official WC warm-up race.

Scot, DJ, Paolo, Flavio ( Brasil), Mazzeo ( Italy) and more Serpent drivers will test all sorts of set-ups, engines, pipes, tyres, wheels, bodies, wings etc etc.

Nielsen wins DK superstock with S400

Ronald Baar — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

DRCMU Winter Championship Round 3 of 4

Win for Nielsen
This past weekend saw the third round of the DRCMU championship 2009/2010 in Denmark.

The race took place in Tinglev not far from the German border, at the clubs 480 m2 large carpet track.

Nicolai Nielsen attended the Super Stock 17.5 class with 2S Lipos, with his Serpent S400.

Pacific Cup, Lima, Peru

Ronald Baar — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

This past weekend I attend the Pacific Cup in Lima. The event was very well organized, with drivers from Argentina, Ecuador, USA and of course Peru.

The track is situated next to the beach, in a main street. Many spectators were present the main day giving a special atmosphere.

1/8 IFMAR Onroad Worlds track, USA

Ronald Baar — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 GMT

The track that will host the 2011 Onroad WC in Miami, omestead, Florida area, has been completely redone.

Directly next to the Homestead official 1/1 scale ace-track, super location too. You can hear the roaring engines of the USA race series in the back-ground ;)

Its now about 1000 feet line and almost 300 feet straight!

Looks awesome. Cant wait to...