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Sweden: 1st 1/10 and 1/8 onroad GP race

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

PEO Reports SwedishCup R1, Växjö Sweden,
Last weekend, first round of the Swedish on-road cup 2012 in Växjö, a nice track with good traction!
Double podium finishes for the Serpent Sweden team, a promising start of the new season!

Drivers started to practice Friday afternoon, sunny and perfect conditions all day!
Saturday saw light rain so the last and 4:th qualify was postponed to Sunday that brought nice racing weather again.

1:10 Racing
Mikael Fransson focusing on 1:10 this race took TQ with his Serpent 733-TE but in the final he retired shortly with a broken spurgear.
Per-Ola Hard took 2:nd in the final racing the Serpent 733-TE, he was in the lead but ran out of rear tires at 40min and had to make a change and lost several laps.
Young David Hassel normally a fast buggy driver borrowed a Serpent 733-TE from the distributor in Sweden Hobbyprodukter, David had
Klas from Hobbyprodukter as mechanic and finished on a nice 3:rd place in his first nitro onroad race ever, well done!
Winner was Xray driver Markus Hellquist from the Växjö Sweden after a consistant and fast drive!
http://www.myrcm.ch/se/waxjo/20120512_902897/1-10_NT/Final/F_hA_s1_r1.html

1:8 Racing
Markus Lindner racing the Serpent 966-TE took TQ in the dry 4:th qualify held Sunday morning!
In the final Niklas Johansson with his Xray was the man and took a convincing victory!
2:nd and 3:rd was closer and a battle between the Serpent Sweden teammates Bengt Andersson and Marcus Lindner.
After 45min of good racing Bengt was in 2:nd and Marcus in 3:rd, both racing the Serpent 966-TE car!
http://www.myrcm.ch/se/waxjo/20120512_902897/1-8_Track/Final/F_hA_s1_r1.html

Thanks to the local racing club in Växjö south of Sweden and its members in for hosting a nice race!

Next race of the season will be the Nordic Championships in Trollhättan Sweden 9-10:th of June.
See you on the grid then, I hope to race the new Serpent 747 “Jumbo” then

Happy racing,
Peo Hard

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Germany: Salven sets TQ and wins with 747Germany: Salven sets TQ and wins with 747g

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Michael Salven had a good start with the brandnew Serpent 747, setting TQ and winning the 1/10 German West race last weekend.

Report and set-up to follow

Team Serpent

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Hungary: Gergely wins Nats with 733-TE

Monday, May 14th, 2012

The 2nd round of the Hungarian Onroad Championships was held on the 13th of May in the Hungaroring. It is always a special feeling to race in this great facility on this track surrounded by the real F-1 track. This time full line-up of Porsche cars were making the “musical dubbing”

Organiser club RC RING MC did a tremendous job to prepare for this event. The complete track was re-painted and cleaned-up by vacum cleamer. A very big thumbs up from the racers!

The weather forecast was really bad but luckily for the last round of the qualifications the rain stopped and we had some sunshine for the finals. Gergely Cseko took the TQ position by 3 seconds ahead of Simon Ciudan. After the start Gergely and Simon quickly opened the gap on the rest of the field. At the 10th minute mark Gergely run out of fuel coming into the pits and needed to restart. He come back to the track in 2nd position with about 9 seconds behind Simon. The pit strategy needed to change accordingly, with one more stop, not being able to make the 5 minutes in pursuit mode any more. For the last few minutes Simon completely ran out of tires so Gergely could get back to the lead and won the race with 1,5 laps in front.

1. Gergely Cseko – Serpent 733-TE / RB Concept TXR / RB Fuel / Xceed tires

2. Simon Ciudan – Sheperd / Sonic

3. Laszlo Kiss-Orban – Sheperd / Orcan

Best Regards,

Gergely

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Swiss: Lechner with 733-Te wins Nats

Monday, May 7th, 2012

At the Lostallo track in Swiss, Klaus lechner took victory in the 200mm class, and Marco Reiser took 8th.

Reiser was in 3rd when his gearbox played up.

Dear racer,

Last weekend we met us again in lostallo for the 2. Swiss champ 1/8 and 1/10.

The Family Lechner was on 2 tracks. I went together with my dad to lostallo. And my sisters, mama and luca to nürnberg for the first race in south Germany for serpent/xceed support!

The weather forecast says unfortunately again bad condition / rain, rain again rain….

So we prepared my old 960R and klaus 733 for rain.

Saturday morning we leave in Germany at 5 o’clock. So we arrived by rain in the track at 8:15

We had until lunch break 3x 20 minutes practice for every category. But nobody was testing in the wet! After we started with the 4 qualification on Saturday. In my group it was always raining or the track gets a bit dry. 1/10 had more luck because they could drive 2 heats on dry condition. So it was good for my father. He was with the rain car at 3rd position. TQ was traugott schär.

On 1/8 we had always unluck with the weather. We could not run on the dry track

TQ was luca martinelli

I just was on 10 position because in my group was the weather always changing… But important was to be directly in the semifinal

Sunday morning: rain over rain!!! We started at 11 o clock with 1/4 final 1/8 amateur class. After 2x semifinal 1/10. The semifinal of klaus was good. It was raining all the 20 minutes long. Traugott was the leader and behind my father.So he was very happy to be in the final

Semifinal 1/8 expert was after lunch break. The Weather was crazy, so I prepared booth cars. The sun comes out and our final started dry. Before the start we had again some drops. So Silvio häckler took time out and we changed also again to wet car… On the start I lost 3 laps because my transponder was not counting. Step by step I could go on 5th position. It was ok to be in the final. But then brake my front belt

I had to go very very slow and then it started again to rain. So an other pit stop for everybody to change to rain tyres…

So race was finish for me!! To much unlucky for me in 20 minutes.

Final 1/10:

The first few minutes of the final it was a fight between Traugott and Klaus for the first place. But then Traugott was the leader he could run over 6 minutes and we had our stop all 5 minutes. The Track was half dry and half wet….

But traugott got after 10 minutes technical problems and my father took the first place over the last 20 minutes

1. Klaus Lechner – serpent733/picco/hot race tyres

Final 1/8 amateur won Pasqual Kurzbuch

Final 1/8 expert Simon Kurzbuch

See you this weekend on the hot race trophy in Prato / Italy

And thanks to all my sponsor and my mechanic

Ciao ciao Sabrina

Team Serpent Swiss

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Spain: victory in Nats for Víctor Peláez (Serpent 733)

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Second round of the Spanish 200mm National Championship was held in Gijón, with the weather forecast expecting rain for all the three days. This meant that all drivers had to adapt both their cars and their driving skills to all kina of situations, foreseeing that all qualifiers and all finals will be completely different one to another. (more…)

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NL: Jacobs TQ and win wit 733-TE

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Netherlands: Daan Jacobs TQ and wins 1st 1/10 National in the Netherlands with 733-TE / Max.

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Turkye: Izmir nats win for Alp with 733

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Race report by Mustafa Alp

We headed to İzmir for the first round of Turkish Gas Nationals on 19th of April. We had 2 days for free practise, followed by controlled practises and qualifiers on Saturday and last qual&finals on Sunday. My 733 was fast right from the start, and I already broke the track record at practise from 19.056 to 18.770. This indicated a promising weekend.

Participation was not so high but we still had some fun with friends.

On qualifiers I had a perfect run of 31 laps at 10:09 with a 18.406 fast lap. I took the TQ and there were two other Serpent drivers at top 5 who bagged their main final grids.

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Swiss: Sarbina reports from wet Swiss Nats

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

FIRST SWISS CHAMPIONSHIP IN SITTERDORF

Finally we arrived friday night at the track, unfortunately we couldn´t start earlier, so I missed a whole day practice – pitty! Saturday morning they started only with 2x 20 minutes practice for 1/8 Amateur – 2x 20 minutes 1/10 and 2x 20 minutes 1/8 expert, Then we started directly with the qualfications, we drove 4 heats which took 7 minutes (EFRA RULES)

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Germany_West 1/10: Lehmann TQ and Pupke wins with Serpent

Monday, April 16th, 2012

In Qualifying Serpent tok the Top-3 at the 1t race in Dormagen

1. Lehmann

2. Pupke

3. Salven and sets new Dormagen lap record!

In the final Pupke won and a total of 5 Serpents in the final, and the majority of cars in the event. Pupke ran a mix of the Serpent 733 and 747 car, as the final 747 is not ready yet.

Full report:

Rene Püpke wins the first round of Western Championship at Dormagen.Michael Salven sets new lap record!

Last weekend 04.15.2012 the first round Western championship was held at the Track of MCK Dormagen.

Under good weather on Saturday could be trained at approximately 12 °.
The Serpent team showed on Saturday that it has been well prepared for the new season and made with good lap times clearly where it should go down.

On Sunday morning the track was wet cause of rain overnight.

The first qualifying run was then run on a wet track. Even under these conditions, the Serpent drivers, Püpke, Thiele and Lehmann found the leading edge in the rankings again.
The track dried out during the heats gradually decreases so that the times were getting faster.
The fourth and final qualification round on completely dry track Rene Püpke was the only one who was able to drive 18 laps to secure pole position.
With Rene Püpke, Benjamin Lehmann, Michael Salven, Daniel Thiele, Arndt Bernhardt, Björn Hartlage and Julien Cevani seven Serpent driver could directly qualify for the semifinals.

In the first semi-final Benjamin Lehmann, Arndt Bernhardt and Lucien Zens could secure by consistent and fast lap times, a place in the final.

In the second semi-final it started right rapidly. Rene Püpke and Michael Salven could be directly contrasted with the rest of the field. Michael had to stop cause of a technical Problems.
Rene won the 20 minutes semi-final with two laps ahead.
Michael came back into the race and set a new lap record of 16,4sec with the 747 prototype (old record 16,7). Unfortunately, the good lap times helped not for Michael to move up after his Problem in the final.
Nevertheless, it managed a total of 5 Serpent driver from the semi-finals in the final.

The final started well for the Serpent drivers. Rene Püpke could use his pole position well and sat down in the early rounds already from the rest of the field.
After about seven minutes the final stopped as a result of a power failure in the timing.

After a break of 30 minutes the final restarted.

The second start was similarly good. At the beginning the pressure was quite high on Rene.
Rene proved but a cool head and would not give his lead.
Shortly before the end of the race Rene run out of fuel. With the engine running again Rene was on 5th place.
About five minutes before the end the drivers ahead of him got the first problems with their tires due to the high tire wear. But Rene’s lap times were consistent and quick to the end and he could bring back the lead.

Final result was as follows:

1. Rene Püpke (Serpent 733 TE with 747 suspension parts)
2. Sebastian Bürge
3. Andreas Weyhoven
4. Benjamin Lehmann (Serpent 733 TE)
5. Arndt Bernhardt (Serpent 733 TE)
6. Bernd Rausch
7. Lucien Zens (Serpent 733 TE)
8. Carsten Diekmann
9. Daniel Toenessen
10. Bjorn Hartlage (Serpent 733 TE)

All in all it was a good weekend for the Serpent drivers. Michael could show the potential of the new 747 and Rene also showed by winning the race with the geometry of the new 747 that the new car is equipped well for the coming season.

Finally, a big thanks to Serpent and 2-speed for the support.

My set-up: 733 te-15.4.12-dormagen-sklauf1-Rene

Rene Püpke

More details: www.nitro-west.de

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Alp-Adria Cup 2012: Introduction

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

http://alpe-adria-cup.yolasite.com/homepage.php

Alpe Adria Cup starts in April at beautiful Slovenian track in Tolmin.

1/10 and 1/8 I.C. Track MONOTYRE racing series

4 countries – 4 races
Monotyre racing gives same condition for everybody
No additives allowed (park ferme)
Low cost racing (limited tyres)
Superpole before the main final
The motto of Alpe Adria Cup 2012: FUN – FAIR RACING – FRIENDSHIP

Why to participate at the Alpe Adria Cup 2012?

- to enjoy racing and have fun
- to meet new friends
- to race in equal conditions as other racers
- to be competitive without the need of high budget
- to get your first racing experience on a racetrack
- to meet some pro class drivers and get some support
- to be Alpe Adria Cup 2012 champion and get some factory support for the next season
- to be able to win some great lottery prizes

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