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Serpent 1-2 in 2nd round of Portuguese Nationals (18/05/2006)
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- Ronald Baar
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May 13th/14th was time for Coimbra city to receive the 2nd round of the Portuguese 1/10 200mm national championship. A sunny race during all weekend, only troubled by cotton from the trees around the track, floating in the air. Painting masks were common in the pit area.
Serpent team driver, Filipe Costa got the pole position in one of the best results ever made by all drivers. 49 drivers separated by a "small" gap of 2 laps, about 42 seconds. João Malveiro, Cláudio Lopes and João Inácio made it directly to the semi-finals, while Ricardo Nogueira with such a bad luck places his Serpent in 44th place, 10 places away from the bottom of the table.
The best was yet to come. Nogueira starts a climbing since the 1/16 final winning all, 1/8 final, 1/4 final and semi-final. Ricardo Nogueira, Filipe Costa, João Malveiro, Cláudio Lopes and Fernando Henriques were the 5 Serpent drivers in the main final.
In the main final, not a good start for Filipe Costa, Cláudio Lopes and Ricardo Nogueira (numbers 1, 2 and 3) with lots of bumps with other cars. Costa was early away from the race, when a radio glitch sent his car into the wall, breaking it. Lopes had trouble with a damaged 1st gear losing lots of time to replace it. Henriques crashed a stopped car and broke his. Nogueira gets bumped in the first lap, stucking the body in the wheel. Fast pit entry and half a lap lost to other drivers. Another escalade was coming and at 18 minutes of race, he catches the leader Malveiro. Then a battle was fought for the first place, on the track and on the pits. Malveiro made one more pit stop than Nogueira and that made it impossible for him to keep the first place. In the end, Nogueira climbed from 44th to 1st place doing almost 300 laps to the track, a total of 95 minutes of racing in one afternoon.
TOP10 Main:
1 - Ricardo Nogueira - 86 laps - Serpent 710 - Mega
2 - João Malveiro - 84 laps - Serpent 710 - Mega
3 - Diogo Moreira - 83 laps - Associated
4 - Jaime Silva - 83 laps - Associated
5 - Fernando Cordeiro - 82 laps - Kyosho
6 - António Teixeira - 82 laps - Mugen
7 - Horácio Monteiro - 82 laps - Mugen
8 - Cláudio Lopes - 69 laps - Serpent 710
9 - Fernando Henriques 39 laps - Serpent 710
10 - Filipe Costa 32 laps - Serpent 710 - Mega
The winning team (LuÃÂs Almeida, Ricardo Nogueira, Carlos Nogueira and João Angeja)
Ricardo Nogueira and João Malveiro, a Serpent 1-2
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