The rain held off this weekend as we saw a great turnout for the 4th round of the CML Nitro Winter Champs. After a thrilling race for both buggies and truggies we now have the current standings after 4 very competitive rounds.

With the amount of rain we had on Friday, which froze over, and was then followed by snow, it was a huge relief that the meeting was a great success under such evil weather conditions.

1/8th Rally Cross Top 20

Position / Name / Score
1 / Simon Willetts / 785
2 / Jon Howells / 750
3 / Lee Martin / 746
4 / Richard Taylor / 740
5 / Steve Haynes / 739
6 / Matthew Lewis / 706
7 / Lewis Milman / 650
8 / Wez Myles / 639
9 / Jim Davis / 625
10 / Matthew Ball / 599
11 / Andrew Webb / 585
12 / John Holmes / 577
13 / Bruce Thompson / 561
14 / Anthony Potter / 560
15 / David Bailey / 552
16 / Mathew Grafton / 547
17 / John Hall / 544
17 / Richard Barton / 544
19 / Mark Kay / 532
20 / Collin Brennan / 529

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Serpent development driver John Neumann continues his work on the new four wheel drive EP buggy and recently took the car to victory in the France at the Petit RC Indoor Race in Paris.

The German racer took the prototype car, which is due for release in the coming months, to victory over Team Losi driver Tom Cockerill and the XFactory of Antoine Rossetti.

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The 2008 nitro season got underway in Cyprus over the weekend and it was business as usual for Team Serpent as Nicholas Zachariades dominated the event.

The regining Cyprus 1:10 Nitro Challenge Champion was driving his new 720 08 and put in a superb heat to TQ for the event. Starting from the number one spot on the grid Zachariades cruised home to take the win.  In early stages it looked like it was going to be a 1-2 for Serpent as the newest member to the team Andreas Charalambous held second but an unfortunate incident forced him to retire. Marios Charalambous drove a solid race to finish sixth with his 720.

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DJ Apolaro took an important win at the Fort Myers track over the weekend in the 5th round of the Florida State Series but what made this event so important was that many of factory drivers from across the US where in attendance in preparation for the up coming WinterNats - the unofficial World Championships!

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Picture from Hirosaka.jp for the Kyosho new Touring car at DHI Cup 2008

Source : hirosaka.jp

Introducing the latest on-road gas touring car chassis from Team Magic… the G4JS. Manufactured from high quality materials but with a budget in mind, this new chassis is the first to offer championship winning componentry at such a low price.

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