
This year was the 30th annual winternats. We got to the track early Sunday mourning and it was very cold for Florida.

The 30th annual Winternats in Ft. Myers took place from 12 to 18 February.
We (Michael, Richard, Steven, Franky, Stef, Jack and myself) arrived in Ft. Myers on Saturday evening.

I am racing at the Winternats for quite some time now. I don’t even remember which year was the first time, but I remember that Ralph Burch was TQ in an Associated 500. He did 23 laps, something, that the best 200mm sedan cars achieve today. Back then it was an impressive performance by Ralph and his PARIS powered car, and I remember that I was second after qualifying, with a massive 2 laps down on Ralph!
A lot of memories, but what I always achieved was to make the A-main. Not this time!

On many forums I see the question: “which body works best?” being asked. And the answers are almost as diverse as the people answering. It seems everyone has a different opinion. Often you will see someone really liking one body, where someone else feels completely different. Some say one body understeers where someone else feels it to be loose. These differences are partly explained by the difference in chassis they are mounted on, and their setup. But the way the body is mounted on the chassis can have a big impact on how it performs too. For example how far to the front or rear the body sits...

The Serpent 710 is now available in the Team Car version.
The Team car version includes a selection of the main optionals used by top-level racers in the Serpent 710. These optionals are added to the existing Serpent 710.
This Serpent 710 Team Cars is a very close resemblance of the Serpent 710 which Morganti TQ-ed and won the 2006 Winternats in the USA with.
The version may differ from country to country.
The Serpent 710 Team Car can be combined with the Mega ZX-12 Powerpack #201005 (zx-12 engine plus polished inline pipe-set and Mega engine bag) to make a race-winning combination.
Click...

1/10 scale victory for Morganti / 710/Mega
Morganti managed to consolidate his TQ position in 1/10 scale sedan. Congratulations !
Excellent 3d place finish of Gray also with S710/Mega.
1:10th Sedan
Winner : PAOLO MORGANTI 710/Mega
2nd : CHRIS TOSOLINI RRR/
3rd : SCOTTY GRAY 710/Mega
Info on all results and images soon on:
www.winternats.com
-- .12 SEDAN 1/10 - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 1 195 45:12.85 PAOLO MORGANTI 188 31.12
2 3 188 45:04.30 CHRIS TOSOLINI 52 30.10
3 2 185 45:01.88 SCOTTY GRAY 181 29.64
4 9 184 45:07.00 GERDARD KANDELHART 122 29.43...

Morganti managed to consolidate his TQ position in 1/10 scale sedan. Congratulations !
Excellent 3d place finish of Gray also with S710/Mega.
1:10th Sedan
Winner : PAOLO MORGANTI 710/Mega
2nd : CHRIS TOSOLINI RRR/
3rd : SCOTTY GRAY 710/Mega

Serpent drivers TQ 3 out of 4 classes. Now the lower finals will be raced on friday and the mains on saturday.
More news:
http://www.mytsn.com/events/event.asp?eid=1743
www.winternats.com

Race # 15 -- 4WD 1/10 OUTLAW - A Main --
Qual Qual time name car#
1 22/5:13.86 MARK UNGER * 1
2 21/5:01.82 JOHN WONG * 2
3 21/5:02.23 JULIAN HOPE * 3
4 21/5:06.44 JACK van LEEUWEN * 4
5 21/5:08.63 ALLEN DENZINE * 5
6 21/5:09.01 ARMIN WEIHERT * 6
7 21/5:11.81 KEVIN HUTCHINSON * 7
8 20/5:03.28 DAVID LARRY * 8
9 20/5:07.75 JEFF EPPERSON * 9
10 19/5:12.80 MIKE BECKER *10
11 14/4:49.07 JARROD PILONE *11

Top 15 in 1:8th :
1 MIKE SWAUGER - Mugen / JP
2 PAOLO MORGANTI - Serpent/Mega
3 STEVEN CUYPERS - Serpent/Mega
4 SCOTTY GRAY - Serpent / Mega
5 BARRY BAKER - Serpent / Mega
6 FRANCESCO TIRONI - Kyosho / Sirio
7 DAVE CAMPBELL - Delta / ?
8 MARCO VANNI - Mugen / ?
9 AARON BURAN - Kyosho / ?
1 can still move up, who will that be ? We put our bets on Salven ;)
10 JOSH CYRUL - Kyosho / Sirio
11 TAKAAKI SHIMO - Kyosho / Sirio
12 MICHAEL SALVEN - Serpent / Mega
13 DARIN ISHITANI - Mugen / ?
14 KEVIN JELICH - Mugen / ?
15 ADRIEN BERTIN - Kyosho / Sirio
no 1/10 new received...