The first 2007 Swiss Championship for 1/10 touring cars was held on May 5–6th, 2007. It rained the entire day on Saturday, so the qualification runs were very difficult. On Sunday, two qualification rounds were held on a wet track, and two were on a dry track. Four XRAY drivers qualified into the A-final.

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Readers of the famous German r/c car magazine AMT have voted Serpent’s 960 as their 1:8 Nitro ‘Car of the Year’.

Well known for its high level product reviews, AMT gave it readers the chance to vote for their favourite products and it was the European Championship winning Serpent 960 that got their No. 1 vote. The AMT ‘Car of the Year’ award is yet another endorsement of the Michael Salven designed car.

Serpent Motorsport and Chief Designer Michael Salven, who comes from Germany, are very proud to see the 960 selected as AMT Car of the Year, “It will motivate us even more to continue in the development direction choosen, developing our cars to be faster but also simpler, stronger and easy to set-up”.

German Serpent distributor Jirka Hassler from 2-Speed accepted the award on behalf of Serpent during the official presentation.

Source : Serpent

Race report by Robin Frischkopf, Swiss XRAY Team

Last week-end it was finally time for the first Swiss championship race of the 2007 season. We went to the town of Morges at lake Geneva, where the MBLR club had prepared a temporary track on a grass field in the middle of the town. The track was very fast, with two straights and some fast corners, but also technical, with some hairpins and with one table jump right before a corner and one double jump right after and before a corner, making jumping very difficult because the car had to be lined up straight right out of the fast corner and as soon as it landed you had to turn in for the next corner. There were a lot of spectators throughout the week-end because the track was at a very public place.

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Race report by Hobbylink / Sufian

Singapore XRAY driver Sam Cheng made an impressive debut of the XRAY NT1 in the 1/10 GP touring arena. The race was an open-class championship race amongst top drivers in Singapore at Turf City on May 6, 2007. The weather was good for the race and the track was in excellent condition.

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The Moscow Off-road Championship was held on May 6th with 56 drivers taking part in this event. Team XRAY drivers Dmitriy Malyshko and Denis Zuykov were the fastest during the race. Competition was fierce, and success difficult to come by.

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The Heart of America Series kicked off at the Fastlane Raceway in Blue Springs recently and it was Serpent driver Jari Taskilla who took the win.

Taskilla TQ’d for the race and was one of 3 Serpent 720 drivers to qualify in the Top 5 after three of the four scheduled rounds of 5 minute heats. Rain descended on the track for the fourth run causing the cancellation of the remainder of the meeting with the result being declared on qualifying order.

The only driver to break into the 19 laps in qualifying, Taskilla was in top form and should be a major contender for the HOA Series title, which runs over seven rounds.

Heart of America Series
Round 1, Fastlane Raceway
Result (Declared on qualifying)

1. Jari Taskilla (Serpent 720) - 19 laps in 5:11.17
2. Tim Kristal - 18 laps in 5:07.71
3. Mark Zitzlsperger - 18 laps in 5:10.45
4. Jeff Brustad (Serpent 720)- 18 laps in 5:10.93
5. Andrew Mowery (Serpent 720) - 18 laps in 5:11.85

Source : Serpent

Serpent SDD driver Oscar Cabezas secured a podium finish in the second round of the ultra competitive Spanish 1:8 National Champions over the weekend at the new Valladolid track.

The winner of the opening round of the championship held at the ARCA track in Madrid in March, Cabezas got Round 2 off to the perfect start by taking provisional pole after the opening round of heats.

Unfortunately the reigning Spanish Champion was to hit problems in the following heats and dropped to fourth in the final qualifying order as the track got quicker as the event went on.

Lining up on the second row of the grid for the Main Final, contact at the start left Cabezas in last place but a superb and steady recovery drive allowed the Serpent 960 driver to carve his way through the field to finish third for his second podium finish of the season.

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