The NR Cup was held at the Homestead race-way, home of the 2011 WC for 1/8 scale in April.
Paolo Morganti with 966 made it in 1st, after qualifying in 2nd.
Many Serpent drivers into the 1 hour long A-main:
Apolaro 3rd, Kimbrow 4th, Desoto 6th. Ives & Davis too.
Team Serpent America
Dear Racers,
After the quarter finals we have 2 more drivers in the semi finals.
Dear Racers,
A update about what is going on on the Gulf Coast Raceway in Houston.
Dear Racers,
A small report after the first 2 rounds at the World championships at the Gulf Coast Raceway in Houston.
Paolo Morganti: first place at the Byrons Challenge. Way to go!!!
Team Serpent
This is an amazing weekend and one that I may never forget, this is the prestigious Kamikaze Invitational Race held annually in May and is the biggest race in Southern California, The weekend started off a little slow for me but it got better as the race went on, there was a total of 9 qualifying heats, I was able to achieve my goal because of the great support I get from Paolo Morganti of Serpent and Sam of Kamikaze Toys and Hobbies, I am not satisfied with the first 3 qualifiers as I am only doing 19 laps on a 5 minute qualifier, Paolo and Jon Prather are the only ones that is making 20 lappers,...
This year was the 33rd year for the Texas Biggie, we had great weather great people and most important some good racing! The biggie format is a fun one we run a total of six qualifiers, 2 on Friday 4 on Saturday, and the mains on Sunday. Well Fridays qualifiers started i was on a good pace and ended 2nd after the first run, i was happy with the run but knew i could go faster, the 2nd run went like the first, i improved my time but was still 2nd on the grid. After the first day of qualifing i was happy with the performance of my car, the 966 was very easy to drive, after securing a spot in the final...
Paolo Morganti TQ'd the On-road State series with Serpent 966.
DJ Apolaro ( Serpent 966) was also very fast and was within a second.
Paul Ciccarello, who also switched to Serpent 966, qualified 5th in his first race with Serpent 966.
Rain washed out the 8th scale finals so results are Paolo 1st, DJ 2nd, Paul 5th, me 9th. Finals 4 Serpents, 5 Mugens and 1 Motonica.
We ran on the Worlds layout and everyone liked it a lot. Fast, flowing... Fast lap was DJ with 17.7 sec lap.
Team Serpent America
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.
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. During the real WC it will be blazing hot, so different again.
With Serpent 733, Paolo is Serpents fastest in 9th, with DJ in 11th, Scott in 12th and Mazzeo in 14th.
Full results below.
Main final at 15.00 Houston time.