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Neo 2011: Serpent Cobra in action (18/04/2011)
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Billy Easton will attend the Neo 2011 race as designer of the Serpent Cobra.
Niclas Brunsberg. topdriver from Sweden will join, as well as Rodrigo Luis, current runner -up in the Portugese Champs and team-mate Carlos Hugo Ferreira, Morten Thorkildsen from Norway, David Hassel from Sweden , Kennie Ekenstierna also Sweden and French ace driver Davy Bales.
French Serpent Distributor Bernard Durand will be present, and also Serpent designer/owner Michael Salven will support the race.
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China: Serpent Distributor for South China: In Hobby (17/04/2011)
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Serpent introduces In Hobby as Distributor for the South China region.
In Hobby Distribution is located in Guangzhou.
In Hobby will take part in the large Beijing Hobby Show end of april and will display the growing range of Serpent rc cars in their booth. So please pay them a visit when your are at the show.
WC 1/8 onroad USA: eventfull last day ends the WC hopes for Serpent (16/04/2011)
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The last day of the WC in USA on saturday, did not bring the expected results.
The aces of Serpent from the quarter and semi all had their issues to cope with.
Green had and unwilling engine in the early stages of the quarter, loosing to much time there to play a role anymore. Cristiani raced very well in the quarter, but suffered a torn fuel-line in the semi. Branson made it to the semi in great style, but had clutch/2-speed related issues into the final. Salven suffered radio glitsches in the warm-up of the semi and could not fix it. Paolo had a strong start of the semi, but a broken plug...
WC 1/8 onroad USA: Morganti takes round 4 with Serpent 966 (14/04/2011)
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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.
WC 1/8 onroad USA: final qualifying ranking and mains -list files (14/04/2011)
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On the Serpent event page for the WC:
http://serpent.com/racing/event/61/IFMAR-1/8-onroad-WC-2011.html
you can find the full qualifying list ( Serpent drivers in yellow) and the mains-list.
Lower finals are being run today !
www.liverc.com (timing) and www.redrc.net for reports.
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WC 1/8 onroad USA: Morganti sets fastest laptime so far 15.99 (13/04/2011)
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Morganti / 966 sets fastest laptime so far 15.99 in heat 1 of official qualifying. Salven was fast too with a 16.09.
Its not an easy track and all and finding the right rythm to do fast laps all the time is the key.
Watch the action on www.liverc.com
Many new images: http://serpent.com/racing/event/61/
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WC 1/8 onroad USA: 2 heats done, 2 more to go (13/04/2011)
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The 1st 2 heats have been raced on wednesday, with last 2 groups not racing heta 2 due to rain. They are allowed to run today.
Heat 3 and 4 still to go. Due to the new tyres rules / discussions, only 4 heats instead of 6.
For Serpent its Morganti on 6, Salven on 12 ( his 1st heat was better, but car was underweight, as he fogot he lend his weight to team -mate Cristiani earlier), 19th supertalent Kyle Bransson and on 20 Mark Green. Other Serpent drivers also show good speed, but lack consistency in driving.
Sabrina Lechner, Serpent/Xceed female top-driver is in position 50 and expect...
WC 1/8 onroad USA: qualifying starts today (11/04/2011)
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WC 1/8 onroad USA free practise and timed practise is over and qualifying stats today.
After timed practise heats Serpent has 6 drivers in the top 20, with Morganti in 2nd position. The new WC parts for the 966 work very well, more info during this week.
We have some drivers which are lower ranked now but that will improve a lot like Kimbrow and Tanaka.
To follow the WC, you can link to:
he sites from which you may follow this event are:
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www.redrc.net
http://www.yome3000.com/news.php (french)
www.liverc.com
www.rcmag.com ( french)
www.rctech.net
www.nitro-west.de...
WC 1/8, USA: Free Practise is over (10/04/2011)
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Fastest laptimes in Controlled Practice
15,813 Andrea Christiani (I/Serpent)
15,887 Robert Pietsch (D/Mugen)
15,912 Dario Balestri (I/Capricorn)
15,919 Josh Cyrul (USA/Shepherd)
15,963 Rick Vrielijnck (NL/Mugen)
15,973 Franceso Romagnoli (I/Shepherd)
15,984 Mike Swauger (USA/Xray)
15,993 Daniele Ielasi (I/Shepherd)
16,073 Michael Salven (Serpent)
16,128 Patrick Schδfer (Shepherd)
16,413 Eric Dankel (Xray)
16,488 Sabrina Lechner (Serpent)
16,581 Uwe Baldes (Mugen)
16,606 Toni Gruber (Serpent)
Top 10 Practice :
Based on 3 censequtive fast laps
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USA: JP takes TQ and victory in FSS with Serpent Cobra (05/04/2011)
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Round 6 of the FSORS series made the way to Mills Pond in Ft. Lauderdale, FL for another stop on the popular Florida series.
JP Tirronen running the Serpent Cobra buggy put his stamp on the 1/8th buggy pro class in qualifying by earning the TQ in rounds 2 and 3, taking the number 1 position leading into the mains.
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