Serpent factory driver Massimo Fantini has TQ’d his 960 ‘08 for the European Championships which are taking place in Valencia, Spain, this week.

The World Championship Top Qualifier and former European Champion set the pace in the second of the four qualification heats at the Autet circuit making the most of the cooler track conditions on Saturday morning to record the fastest 5 minute run narrowly missing out on 18 laps.

Joining Fantini in the Top 4 at the end of qualifying to ensure at least two Serpent 960s in the Main Final was Serpent Driver Development team member Oscar Cabezas driving his Mega powered example.  The Spanish ace also recorded the fastest lap of the event todate with a new lap record time of 17.379 seconds.

Full coverage of the 2008 EFRA European Championships can be found on www.redrc.net

Source : Serpent

The Singapore Invitational 2008 is a yearly event held at the East Coast Park Raceway. It is a 2-day event and foreign drivers from Indonesia are the first to arrive at the track 2 days before the event, followed by drivers from Brunei and Malaysia. The race format for this event is A, B and C finals for the 1/8 class, and Christmas tree format with no top 4 sit-out for the 1/10 class. The schedule included 3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday and all the finals on Sunday.

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With the Rock Force KYOSHO moving into the new world trend of crawlers. Crawlers have the property that they are extremely geländegängig and on almost every terrain in the truest sense of the word adapt. This crawler, the pendulum of axes, which allow a maximum entanglement.

The base of the Rock Force is a torsionssteifes aluminum-frame chassis with chassis pursuit of hardened aluminum pipe. In connection with four high-quality Öldruckstoßdämpfern, axes, the pendulum spring so vast distances and maximum entanglement values. The power transmission is generously sized cardan shafts on the shuttle routes.

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U.S. Sports Inferno ST Mk.II - Even more technology at a fair price! With the new U.S. Sports Inferno ST Mk.II, we present the strongest and most attractive currently 1 / 8 Truggy-ReadySet on the market! The model has real-world champion genes and now stands by the new Perfex-computer remote control system and the hammerstarken GXR-28 BigBlock-power engine with SG-crankshaft and the extensive equipment package.

ST U.S. Sports Mk.II based on the Inferno ST, all proven components like the chassis geometry, powertrain and chassis balance was ingenious concept. The new GXR-28 BigBlock-power engine is equipped with a SG-crankshaft, cane and Schiebevergaser resonance. This makes the ST U.S. Sports Mk.II currently strongest ReadySet-truggy on the market and has unprecedented power in every driving situation! Similarly, the drive train to the higher engine power. Thus, the GXR-28 with a two-jaw racing clutch with special plastic coverings. The clutch bell is made of steel and milled piece with two ball bearings. At the front, the power transmission to the wheels via two cardan shafts.

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Round 8 of the Cyprus National 1:10 ITC took place on July 20 at the Daytona RC Circuit in Nicosia. The weather was very hot with a temperature that reached 42°C. Unfortunately, this negatively influenced the number of drivers attending, but most of the top Cyprus RC drivers attended the event.

In Expert class main final, XRAY NT1 driver Stelios Procopiou started from pole position and stormed to his first winning victory on his debut race with Team XRAY (and as we know, the J&S driver recently moved from Mugen to XRAY). Vasilis Christoforou - the second XRAY NT1 racer and J&S driver as
well - was runner up. Charis Theodosiou came in third place, while young driver Thirsos Charalambous encountered a few engine problems at start and finished fourth.

Results: Final A

1. Stelios Procopiou XRAY NT1 / XRAY Tires
2. Vasilis Christoforou XRAY NT1 / XRAY Tires
3. Charis Theodosiou / XRAY Tires
4. Thirsos Charalambus
5. Andreas Zachariades
6. Stelios Aristodeimou
7. Alex Kostouris
8. Savvas Taliadoros
8. Solon Patsias
9. Alex Mougiasis / XRAY Tires
10. Giorgos Costantinides

Source : XRAY