Daniel Tomaschko took an important race win over the weekend when he won the EC-B Warm-up race at Kirchberg. Driving his 960 ‘08/Mega MF combination, the Austrian driver set a new track record on his way to the victory.

Unfortunately Tomaschko, due to his EFRA A license ranking, will not take part in the actually 1:8 European B Championships at the track later this month but he will be on hand to share the set-up knowlegde gained over the weekend with the many Serpent drivers from across Europe that will travel to the week long event.

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The 2008 EFRA 1:10 200mm European B Championship took place in Ampuis, France, last week were local driver Michael Derderien marked himself as one to watch for the future. Driving his Mega MF powered Serpent, the youngster TQ’d the big event making it the second year in a row that the 720 topped the qualifying time sheets at the EFRA race.

Unfortunately Derderien was unable to repeat the success achieved by 2006 EC-B winner Alessio Mazzeo from Italy. Very fast in the final, the Frenchman was given a Stop/Go penalty and his engine cut out but despite this he managed to take his Serpent home in 5th.

Serpent congratulate Derderien on his TQ achievement and are sure that we will see a lot more of this young charger in the future.

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The Novarossi & Mugen Championship was held at DongHae Raceway in Korea. Since the Korea Nitro Off-road Buggy Championship would be held at the same track in 3 weeks, the race was called the ‘Pre-Korea National Championship’. And of course most of the Korean top drivers participated in this race.

The race was represented by Team XRAY drivers ChoongYeul, DongKwan, NamHo, and DongWoo. It was the first official race for Team XRAY Korea where they would be able to test and race with the new XB808. As expected, the race was able to showcase the XB808’s great performance as it was very fast, reliable, and performed great jumps. However, being the first XB808 testing by the Korean drivers, they had a problem with timing the jumps as the XB808 was much faster and jumps longer than any other buggy they had ever experienced. During the first qualifier, it was kind hard to determine how far it would jump. However, we quickly became familiar with the performance of the XB808 in the 2nd qualifier.

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