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Jun 1, 2011

3 Serpent drivers made it into the main final

Merlin Depta, Jens Stark and René Puepke. Well done for the 3 young talented drivers. Full results below. Puepke had best chances for victory, being in 2nd place for a while, but his luck ran out during the final.

The fastest Serpent guns after qualifying Giesa (2), Gruber (4) and Eberle (7), all suffered some sort of misfortune in the semi, being pit-stop, materials or an accident, preventing the well deserved jump into the mains.

Thanks to the many Serpent drivers present and to the club to host a super event, and congrats to Salemi with the title.

Team Serpent.

The top 10 ranking after 4 heats:
1. Lars Hoppe (D) Shepherd/Novarossi – 31 laps / 7.04,547 min.
2. Andreas Giesa (D) Serpent/Xceed – 31 / 7.04,808
3. Mirko Salemi (I) Mugen/Max – 31 / 7.08,989
4. Toni Gruber (D) Serpent/Xceed – 31 / 7.10,094
5. Maximilian Vogl (D) Shepherd/Novarossi – 31 / 7.11,012
6. Mattia Pesenti (CH) Mugen/Novarossi – 31 / 7,12,142
7. Philip Eberle (D) Serpent/Xceed – 31 / 7.13,001
8. Merlin Depta (D) Serpent/Max – 31 / 7,13,564
8. Juerg Nydegger (DH) Shepherd/Max – 30 / 7.00,497
10.Jens Stark (D) Serpent/Xceed – 30 / 7.02,076

The final result:
1. Mirko Salemi (I) Mugen/Max – 191 laps
2. Juerg Nydegger (CH) Shepherd/Max – 189
3. Mattia Pesenti (CH) Mugen/Novarossi – 188
4. Niklas Johannson (S) Mugen/Orcan – 187
5. Merlin Depta (D) Serpent/Max – 185
6. Lars Hoppe (D) Shepherd/Novarossi – 181
7. Jens Stark (D) Serpent/Xceed – 171
8. Tobias Hepp (D) Xray/Orcan – 108
9. René Puepke (D) Serpent/Xceed – 81
10.Timo Schroeder (D) Shepherd/Novarossi – 4

Big thanks also to all Serpent mechanics and supporters present, great team-work.

Images and results by nitro-west.de and redrc.net