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Guther van Staey reports ENS round 2 Rupchen NL (31/05/2019)
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On Wednesday evening everything was ready with a new 2 liter run-in Forfast XRD engine, this one just starting and everything was okay.
We arrived early on Thursday. During the first free practice the engine was started, but it refused to start and blocked every time.
After a few attempts we put another engine in the car and drove. The lap times were better than expected and it didn't look bad.
At the first qualification it went wrong already, when I overtook I left the track and given the lap times were very close to each other, it lost 10 points in the ranking.
The same thing happened with...
Merlin Depta reports ENS round 2 Rupchen NL (29/05/2019)
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We arrived Thursday pretty well prepared at the track in Rucphen. By the way this has been one of the tracks where we originally tested the rear end from the 977 Evo2 which has been pretty much the basic for nowadays 988 Viper.
Over the practice I was looking for more in corner steering. The performance of the 988 in total from the first practice was pretty solid and I only needed a micron more steering into the corner to make the car rotate. I found myself during the practice every round between P0-P15 and was pretty confident as normally three fast laps are not my specialist area . Switching...
Mark Green reports ENS round 2 Rupchen NL (28/05/2019)
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This was my 1st ens of the year.
We arrived at the track for the Thursday practice. I spent most of the day running in new engines from max power after this we did a little chassis set up which I felt was a good direction.
Friday .
Michael Salven reports ENS round 2 Rupchen NL (28/05/2019)
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Just being back home from the Dutch ENS race, I want to let you know a bit about this race.
The track is not big but super fast. An average speed of 73km/h says a lot.
Our team including the Bologna winner Dominic Greiner struggled initially. We just couldn't find the steering and rotation to go fast. We tried a LOT of stuff. Besides doing the obvious like more caster, we tried all sorts of anti-roll bars but it didn't really solve the problem.
Pontus Larsson wins Rd 2 of the middle swedish cup at Trolhättan track (27/05/2019)
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Round 2 of the MSC cup in SMK Trolhättan done and dusted!
We took all 3 rounds of the qualifications. Car was great but little unstable, we changed anti-roll bars and the car felt more stable and I could there for push more at the turns. Won the semi and was half a second faster than the lap record.
Serpent Viper 988e is now available! (27/05/2019)
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The Serpent Viper 988E is our brand new state of the art 1/8th scale electric racing car. It brings together all our experience in Nitro 1/8th and 1/10th Electric Touring. The Viper 988E features the race proven 988 geometry and bulletproof drivetrain of the 988 Nitro car, with the weight distribution, flex options and belt drive layout of the 4X touring car. Also features flexible battery configurations allowing 4S or 6S battery configurations.
The 988e will be ready to ship in the next weeks.
Pontus Larsson takes 3th at the first Swedish nationals (22/05/2019)
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Sooo... Swedish Nationals Rd1 done. 2nd in practise as we change massively on the car.
Had the pace in Q1 but misstakes...
Q2 I was 2 tenths from first🙄 Q3 was awful. But Q4 and 5 was pretty good and manage to take them both, finishing 2nd in total behind the home driver Niclas Nille Månsson.
The car was very quick on the high grip track but rain was near...
Semi was dry tho and I had the lead till the last lap where Jessica Pålsson past me with a misstake of mine 😕.
Niklas Johansson wins in Sweden with Viper 988 (21/05/2019)
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Niklas Johansson wins his first race with Serpent Viper 988
Michele Scaglioni wins Gara dei Costruttori race in Fiorano (14/05/2019)
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Serpent’s Michele Scaglioni wins with his Serpent 750 a lap in front of Angelo Brucculeri and 2 laps in front Valerio Righi.
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Francisco Bello Calvo wins at Galician Regional Rd1 (13/05/2019)
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The opening round of the Galician On-road Regionals was hosted by the Automodelista Vigues club last weekend. In the 1/10th Formula class it was Francisco Bello Calvo with the clean sweep in the qualifiers, taking the pole position from Omar Rodriguez on the 2 spot. The final then again saw Francisco leading the field in all three finals to take the day’s win from Omar on the runner-up spot. Ruben Manuel Aneiros came in 3rd to round out the podium.
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