17-year-old Ashley Finch has won the 2008 SLCC Championship driving his Serpent S400. Sponsored by ONETENRACING the teenager took his third straight win at the final round at the Cotswold track in England to finish the championship on 397 points out of a possible 400.
The 8th round of the British 1/10th scale 200mm Nationals were held recently at the Cotswold track where experience and youth came head to head for title honours. In the end it was youth that took the upper hand as 14-year-old Serpent Driver Development member Kyle Branson took the win and the championship title from Serpent factory driver Mark Green.
The sixth and final race of the 2008 Danish EP Touring Car Championships took place recently at Glostrup which had hosted the opening race of the season back in May. Driving his Serpent S400 Nicolai Nielsen was going fir his third title in a row and the new Champion was determined to finish the season in style.
Team Serpent Brazil electric touring car driver Felipe Franceschi is the Parana’s 2008 EP Stock Champion. Despite coming from Sao Paulo, Franceschi contested the four round championship, all of which took place at the Dino Speedway Carpet Race Track in the capital of Parana State Curitiba, claiming the title with his S400.
The final round of the Luxembourg Championship took place recently at the Howald track where Rischard Dirk claimed the title in the best way possible with race victory at the controls of his Serpent 960. Dirk sent us the following summary of the race that crowned him the 2008 1:8 Champion -
DJ Apolaro reports on the opening round of the Florida State Series which kicked off at the Homestead track over the weekend and saw Serpent claim the silverware in both 1:10 Sedan and 1:8.
Team Unico Modellsport enjoyed an excellent performance last weekend at the fifth round of the National Championship at the Hungaroring circuit as their drivers won all three categories wrapping up both 1:10 titles in the process.
Team Serpent Sweden driver Per Ola Hard dominated the seventh and final round of the Swedish Cup Series over the weekend taking his 720 08 to TQ honours and race victory.
After a 3 month break the Cyprus based Modelsport team returned to racing in style with team driver Andreas Charalambous taking his Max powered Serpent 960 to victory at Daytona track.
The fifth round of the 1:8 Dutch Nationals was held in Gouda, a very tight and small track here in The Netherlands. The weather on Saturday was a bit disappointing. Because of the rain practice was minimized from 15:30 till 17:30 due to a wet track. However it was for everyone the same. I was really surprised how well my car was going. I used the setup of the last national in Heemstede and didn’t have to change 1 thing! The Novarossi 359 Plus 2 engine with the 3007 pipe was also working beautifully on this shot track. I only need to adjust the clutch and gearing for some more acceleration out of...