Next week (22-25 May) drivers from across Europe will travel to Austria for the 2008 EFRA 1:8 Onroad European B Championships which takes place on the Kirchberg track and Team Serpent will be on hand to offer support to the large number of drivers competing with the 960.
The first round of the Italian National EP Championship took place in Rome last weekend where brothers Michele and Samuele Romagnoli took top honours for Team Serpent.
Both at the controls of the S400, the brothers won the Expert (Michele) and Senior (Samuele) classes and will be looking to repeat the result at the next leg of the 3 round National Championship.
This year's Worlds Warm up/Worlds is to be held at the same track RCS in Thailand as the renowned TITC. The race turn out was a little low, but the competition was just as high as it could have been. Many of your known racers were in attendance with the likes of: Marc Rheinard, Andy Moore, Atsushi Hara, Victor Wilck, Shinosuke Adachi, Masami Hirosaka and myself.
Round 2 of the BTCC Series took place over the weekend at Yateley School Model Car Club where 17-year-old Ashley Finch took his Serpent S400 to top honours in the 27T Brushless Class.
Team Serpent Team Brazil enjoyed success in the second round of the Brazilian National Championships over the weekend when Henrique Winik took his 720 08 to victory at Carrefour São Paulo.
Daniel Tomaschko took an important race win over the weekend when he won the EC-B Warm-up race at Kirchberg. Driving his 960 '08/Mega MF combination, the Austrian driver set a new track record on his way to the victory.
The 2008 EFRA 1:10 200mm European B Championship took place in Ampuis, France, last week were local driver Michael Derderien marked himself as one to watch for the future. Driving his Mega MF powered Serpent, the youngster TQ'd the big event making it the second year in a row that the 720 topped the qualifying time sheets at the EFRA race.
The first round for the 2008 UK 235mm and Truck Series was held at the New Cotswold Circuit recently where Serpent topped the results.
Racing on the fast and flowing circuit which features a down hill section in the middle of the track, it was Richard Boult who TQ'd the Trucks with his 720 chassis while Glyn Beal took pole in the 235mm class with his Serpent 835.
Team HP Racing, the team of Serpent's Swedish distributor, enjoyed a successful weekend at 2006 European Championship host track Staffansdorp over the week when its drivers Bengt Andersson and Christoffer Hallborg stormed to a 1-2 finish with their Serpent 960s.
Team Serpent UK got their National EP Championship campaign off to the perfect start over the weekend when the S400 filled the podium in Pro Stock at Round 1 of the BRCA Touring Car Nationals at Aldershot.