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UK: Kerry UK National Champ 2011 with Serpent 733 (11/10/2011)
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Joe Kerry with Serpent 733, won the Mendip round of the BRCA Nats, and thus became the 2011 BRCA National Champion. Congratulations !!
This was the final round of the UK National Championships for 2011. The weather for Saturdays practise was dry and sunny, champion contenders Adam Catchpole and Joe Kerry both look very good all day.
Sunday morning was windy and cold and damp, after 4 rounds of qualifying and a 30 minute A Final Joe Kerry was the winner with Mark Green Runner up both running SERPENT 733 TE cars.
UK: Beal takes GT Title with 733-GT and Green wins in 200mm (15/09/2011)
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Glyn Beal takes British title with Serpent 733
Glyn Beal has successfully defended his Sports GT title after victory at the Colchester circuit.
Round 7 of the British Nationals were at the Colchester circuit on the 10th / 11th September. The weather for the weekend was mainly dry and sunny and in qualifying Glyn took a comfortable FTD with his 220mm Serpent 733.
In the final Glyn got an excellent start off the line and soon opened up a decent lead. At the end of the 30 minute race Glyn took the win several laps ahead of second place. With this result Glyn has now retained the title for the...
EC 1/10 nitro: 3 Serpent drivers into semi finals (21/08/2011)
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The saturday was the finals day.
Serpent had 7 drivers in the 2 quarter finals; with Green, Mazzeo, Gruber, Stammler, Salven, Branson, Jacobs.
Mainly fuel consumption and engine troubles made only Green go into the semi by winning his quarter with many laps as well, and Jacobs running a very good quarter too and Sammler as 3rd. Both Mazzeo and Salven were very fast in the quarter, but engine / consumption issues prevented bump ups.
Green was most of the time in 3rd place following Pietsch and Wichnevski closely, in last 10 minutes a small stone caught his 1st gear and broke it. Over....
EC 1/8 scale onroad: van Gastel is vice-Champion with 966-TE (28/07/2011)
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Ilia van Gastel took an impressive 2nd place with 966-TE at the 2011 Euro's in Luxembourg.
He stayed very close and at same pace of winner Collari right until the end with just a 6 seconds gap at the finish line.
Ilia made the 7th fastest qualifying time with his Serpent 966-TE version with Xceed ZX engine and using Xceed tyres.
Michael Salven was close to reaching the final, but in the last lap of the semi Vrielinck snatched away the 4th place by making a questionable overtaking manoever.
Serpent's Mark Green saw his chances evaporate in the 1st lap of the semi final when his engine...
UK: Kyle TQ's and wins round 4 BRCA 1/8 (04/07/2011)
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Kyle Branson continues his string of race-wins this year. Also in qualifying he is the man to beat with his Serpent 966 / Sirio / Xcede package.
This race was no exception with Kyle taking TQ, followd by Team mate Tim Wood in 2nd with Serpent 966 /Xceed combo. Mark Green and Jason Frost make it 4 Serpent in the top 10. Green is saving all his good luck for the EC 2011 ...
In the final it was Branson taking the win with Wood in good 2nd, and also Frost and Green making it into the main.
Congratues to Kyle Branson and to runner up Tim.
Team Serpent UK
More info: redrc.net / Andy...
UK: Tim Woods with 966-evo takes 2nd win in UK Nats (10/06/2011)
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Last weekends 1/8th Race Meeting was held at Mendip Raceway near Weston Super Mare. A good entry with all of the main National Championship contenders and several new drivers present.
Sundays qualifying started in dry and sunny conditions, but the rain came during Round 2 and only a few drivers managed to improve their Round 1 times. This left Kyle Branson in TQ position with Mark Green 0.2sec behind and current UK Champion in 3rd place. The A Final consisted of 7 – Serpent 966EVO, 2 – Shepherd Velox and 1 – Mugen.
After the first 5 minutes of the A Final, TQ and 2nd qualifier had retired...
Joe Kerry wins Round 3 of 200mm BRCA Nationals (07/06/2011)
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The third round of the 2011 British National series was held on the last weekend in May at the Brookland circuit in the south of England. The weather forecast for the meeting was not looking too good with showers predicted. Despite this the weather held off and we managed to have another dry meeting.
The traction was quite low to start off with but by the end of Saturday’s practice it had risen to a decent level.
In qualifying Mark Green took FTD with Johnathon Dobney 2nd, and Kyle Branson 3rd. I managed to get 4th just a few seconds behind.
Qualifying results:
1 Mark Green 20/ 5m 11.46 Serpent...
UK, Kyle Branson wins 1/8 scale nats (26/04/2011)
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Branson was able to TQ and win the 1st 1/8 scale BRCA National with Sepent 966, just fresh back from the IFMAR Worlds.
below Kyle's report / redrc.net
UK: Kyle Branson TQ's and wins UK Nats 1/10 (23/04/2011)
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Reigning British Champion Kyle Branson ( Serpent 733) , who had been busy attending the 1/8th Worlds in Miami, sent us this report from the first round of the BRCA 1/10th 200mm nationals was held at the end of March in the Cotswoulds district. The weather forecast looked promising for the weekend, the sun was shining Saturday morning which looked set to be a really nice day. The traction levels were not too bad to start off with, but with plenty of cars going around the track it soon increased. During practice on Saturday most of the top drivers was separated by a few tenths setting up the scene...
WC 1/8 onroad USA: Morganti takes round 4 with Serpent 966 (15/04/2011)
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The 4th and last qualifier has been run, and it is Serpent's Paolo Morganti taking the 4th round with Serpent 966-WC, improving on his best time with a with 36 laps in 10:00.906, and moving up to 7th spot.
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