Team Serpent UK got their National EP Championship campaign off to the perfect start over the weekend when the S400 filled the podium in Pro Stock at Round 1 of the BRCA Touring Car Nationals at Aldershot.

With 56 cars competing in the Pro Stock class it was Glen Westwood who TQ’d for the event ahead of team-mate Jay Westwood. In Leg 1 of the finals Jay got the best run to take the victory as Glen managed only 4th place. For Leg 2 and 3 the latter came good on his pole position and took both victories to claim the overall win from Jay while Mark Sadler took third for a superb Serpent S400 1-2-3 result.

Source : Serpent

Truggy A Main Top 3 Finishers
1. (TQ) Glenn Phuah XRAY XT8
2. Ben Seet
3. Mohamad

Buggy A Main
1. Glenn Phuah XRAY XB8EC
2. Ben Seet
3. Wenyi Lui

Full report from XRAY

Serpent Driver Development team member Nam SangJoon was a dominant force at the recent Korean On-road Race Grand Prix Championship at the Kirina Circuit which was host venue for the 2nd round of nine race series.

Completing in both the 1:10 and 1:8 GP categories, Nam used his Mega powered Serpents well to TQ both classes.

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The first KM Asia Cup Tournament 2008 event was held in Hong Kong on the March 15-16 weekend. There were many participants from Hong Kong, Japan, China, and also Thailand.

We arrived on Friday for practice. The track was very well prepared and challenging as there were many narrow sections and and islands. The car was very easy to drive with very little change from what we had prepared, and at the end of the day we were ready for the event.

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14-year-old Serpent team driver Yannic Prümper from Germany put in one of the performances of his promising r/c racing career over the weekend when he achieved 8th position in the A Final of the prestigious international LRP Masters race.

Racing his S400 in the 100 plus field of Modified drivers which included some of the sport’s most famous drivers including the last three Touring Car World Champions, Yannic did a fanastic job to secure a place in the top final.

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This past weekend the first official race was held in Villareal, Spain, where the next European Championship will take place. Saturday was a cold and windy day when nearly 30 drivers came to Villareal to face off. This race was non-scoring to the Nationals, it was a race to see the behaviour of the cars and drivers.

Heats started Saturday afternoon, and the top ten were divided between XRAY and Schumacher. Local drivers took the 1st and 2nd positions: Vicente Eres (XRAY) and Marc Esbri. After them the 3rd position was the most difficult to get. A lot of drivers had very similar times, we had to wait until Sunday morning to know who will be in 3rd position.

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Race Report by Martin Hudy

The 1/10 nitro pre-worlds were held between March 17- 23 in Lisboa, the capital city of Portugal. The race started on Monday with free practice and because of the few participants, the free practice continued until Friday and the race was held on weekend. IFMAR rules were followed because the race was a warm up for the World Championship to be held in August. That meant that the qualifiers were 10 minutes, semi-finals were 30 minutes, and the main final was 1 hour long. The race was attended by 60 drivers and the reason for the low number was probably due to the time when the race was held… March weather being completely different than August weather. Even with the small number of drivers, everyone expected a big race because almost all of the best Euro drivers attended. The race was full of the best Italian 1/10 drivers like 2-time European Champion Dario Ballestri, top nitro racer Daniele Ielasi, 3rd from the last Euros Alessio Mazzeo, and many many more. Team XRAY was represented by their top Euros drivers: Teemu Leino, German Champion Robert Pietsch and Vice-champion Dirk Wischnewsky, top Spanish driver Carlos Peracho, Danish driver Martin Lissau, Niki Duina from Italy, Mark Gilliand from Great Britain, Mickael Brandt from Sweden, and of course Juraj and Martin Hudy. Overall the NT1 was the most popular car in the race, with 20 XRAY machines out of 60 cars.

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Team Serpent Hungary completed the perfect indoor winter racing season over the weekend as Csekő Gergely wrapped up the second Mod championship and fourth Hungarian title for the Serpent S400.

Racing in the final round of the Hungarian Winter Cup, having just recently secured Modellzona Cup title, the Unico Modellsport lead driver secured top honours for the Modified class of the HWC with overall victory in the finale.

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Oscar and his Italian Teammate Alessio Mazzeo both made the final

The Warm Up for the 1:10 200mm World Championships took place over the weekend at the Lisbon track in Portugal and together with the rest of the Serpent team we where there to gather vital set-up information ahead of the big event. Unfortunately the event was affected by rain which meant grip levels were very bad and we had limited track time.

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Race report by Ricardo Monteiro
The race event was attended by 52 drivers and there was a lot of expectations for the first battle of this competitive Championship. The track was very difficult with two different types: one with bumpy dirt and the other one with concrete in several places, and to make it even more difficult there was a famous bridge going up and down and a triple jump where several driver left a few car parts behind… definitely a spot where you could win or lose the race.

The first round was won without difficulty by 8 seconds over the second qualifier. In the second round, things got bumpier and the result was awful. In the last round when everything was looking good, a mistake on the triple jump ruined it. With a total result of 3rd in the 3 qualifiers, I was able to start 2nd in the A-main.

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