Great result for young Kyle Branson / 966, winning the 7th round of the BRA Nats, ahead of Team mate and leader in the Championship Tim Wood / 966-Mega.
TQ was for Mark Green with S966 followed by Kyle in 2nd.
The top 10 after qualifying were as follows:
1. Mark Green Serpent Novarossi 21 Laps 301 secs
2. Kyle Branson Serpent Sirio 20 Laps 306 secs
3. Daniel Bancroft Motonica Max 20 Laps 308 secs
4. Pete Hastings Shepherd IDM 20 Laps 308 secs
5. Tim Wood Serpent Mega 20 Laps 311 secs
6. Chris Heath Mugen Sirio 20 Laps 312 secs
7. Clive Connolly...
Dear racers,
last weekend we meet us in Hildesheim in the north of Germany for the last EFRA GP 2010. But the weather forcast was not really good, and it was unfortunatly true, because we had more rain then dry! On wednesday i had some luck to test something because there it was just cold but dry for the hole day. On thursday it was rainig very hard (so no test during the day)
This is race report over last weekend at Western Australia.
Event Name: 2010 AKA TROPHY (Geraldton Australia)
Main final result (http://www.rcwa.org.au/results/gormcc/20100828/Print_Race_Analysis_Buggy_1_Final_Race_6.html)
In total 5 Serpent Cobra made the Main final.
David Simms TQ-d and won the race, with nice podium finish for Ry LeFevre also with Cobra S811 in 3rd. Also Shame Woodcraft, John Cowper and Jon Latham made the main with Serpent Cobra.
Team Serpent Australia
All year I have been looking forward to the GLC. Last year the Roar fuel nats was at Toledo, my home track and I finished 3rd. This year I was running a different car, engines, tires, bodies and was looking forward to see where I stacked up against the competition compared to last year.
13 year old Takumi Matsuda, the young Japanse Serpent 733 drivers that reached the World Final, comming from 36th place after qualifying was not easy. Below the interview:
Q: how do you feel after the Worlds ?
A: I had great experiences, and enjoyed it a lot.
I appreciate the people who helped me. I continue practice for
the next WC.
Q: which car, engine, pipe, body, radio did you use ?
A: Serpent 733, Mega ZX-12 EM DS4 with IDM2617 pipe, Xceed Audi body and Sanwa M11X radio
Q: did you expect to be in the final of the WC before the race ?
I thought I would be lucky if I could reach...
in 1/8 scale Paul Ciccarello with Serpent 966 was able to take the win at the well attended GLC race, where also Tosoline, Swauger, Burch and many other competed for the win.
Great show.
More details to follow.
Ilia van Gastel took the win of the 2010 EFRA GP in Germany, Hildesheim.
An all Serpent podium with Giesa in 2nd, in same lap as Ilia and Merlin is 3rd. Super.
In total 7 x 966 in the final.
More details on monday.
results here:
http://www.myrcm.ch/de/amc/20100827_282336/Efra_1-8/index.html
Team Serpent
Large nitro onroad race in USA, near Toledo.
Over 130 drivers in 1/10, 1/8, 1/8 masters and 1/8 GT.
Serpent America is attending with Tosolini, DJ, DeSoto Sr and Jr, Paul Ciccarello and many more.
Qualifing here,
http://www.sgrid.com/2010/glc/saturday/SGRID-GLC%20Qualifying%20Standings%20-%20Round%204.html
and more info on www.sgrid.com and rctech as well.
SerpentAmerica and Serpent facebook pages will show some more news too.
Thanks to Mike and www.sgrid.com for the images.
Serpent
Qualfying in Hildesheim, Germany
1 1988 Hoppe Lars DE 31 07:09.5
2 Van Gastel Ilia BE 31 07:11.0
3 1993 Hepp Tobias DE 31 07:13.6
4 1968 Giesa Andreas DE 31 07:13.8
5 1990 Depta Merlin DE 31 07:13.9
6 1979 Cuypers Steven BE 30 07:02.9
7 1967 Pไtz Michael DE 30 07:05.4
8 Haling Daan BE 30 07:08.5
9 1990 Lechner Sabrina DE 30 07:09.2
10 1985 Sting Philip DE 30 07:09.8
11 1971 Tietz Marcel DE 29 07:00.3
12 1955 Meister Karl-Heinz Deutschland 29 07:01.5
13 Lindner Marcus SE 29 07:02.4
14 1966 Pl๖ger Thomas DE 29 07:03.1
15 1994 Schr๖der Timo DE 29 07:05.4
16 Hedlund...
1/10 scale European Championship, Gotenburg, Sweden
Serpent 733 racer Kyle Branson, 16 year old, from the UK is crowned Junior European Champion 2010. We like to congratulate Kyle with this great achievement. Welcome to the hall of fame !
Kyle is also the current leader in the UK 1/10 championship with Serpent 733, in the very competitive UK Series.
In the EC qualifying Kyle managed the 11th spot, made in the only real dry qualifier, and managed an overall 12th place in the event.
The spot for the main final was within reach, but an exceptional engine flame-out, 2 minutes after refueling,...
