Serpent Teamblog

2012 Serpent Korea Off Road Race.

The first round of 2012 Serpent Korea off road race took place in Jeong Wang circuit last weekend.

Jeong Wang circuit was filled with excitement. More than 100 drivers participated in the race. That number is really huge!

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The Philippine Master 2012 took place at Junkyard Racetrack on March 3 and 4 , 2012. The two days event had morethan 80 entries for both Nitro Truggy and Buggy. Drivers came from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao and they were greeted with a very hot and sunny racing day. For the Buggy and Truggy, There were 3 rounds of qualifying with 10 minutes each and 1 hour for the A-Main , 45 minutes for the B-Main and 30 minutes for the C and D Main. For the past weeks, the weather was soooo hot and made the track so dry n dusty but during the race, with the help of the water sprinkler, the track was in perfect conditions with a good tractions and dust were eliminated from the start of the qualifying till the end of the finals. Among the Top drivers who were present during the Masters were Raffy Abello driving his Associated/O.S engine, Jordan Go with his Serpent/ Novarossi, Clemen Pancho with his Serpent/Novarossi, Werks engine driver Nani Tagle with his Associated kit and many others.

At exactly 9:30a.m, qualifying started for the buggy. On the first round of the qualifying, Hongnor X3 Sabre driver Rico Mendoza with his Technopower engine TQd with 17 laps , 10 mins and 5 seconds. With this number, everybody was pushing hard to beat 17 laps with a faster pace so on the second round of qualifying, Serpent driver clemen pancho with his Novarossi engine TQd the second round with 17 laps but with 10 mins and 7 seconds. Drivers were surprised when another Hongnor X3 Sabre driven by Edward sio with his Novarossi Bonito took the overall TQ on the third and final round qualifying with 17 laps, 10 minutes and 2 seconds. Both Hongnor X3 Sabre driver Rico and Edward were getting a very consistent 17 laps on every round of qualifying.

The final main went on with Edward sio /X3 Sabre/ Nova bonito on pole position followed by Clemen Pancho/Serpent/Nova Bonito and Third Rico Mendoza/X3Sabre/Technopower. Pole driver edward was able to get away from the pack early on and maintained a 20 -25 seconds lead over the second car clemen plancho who suffered an early flameout . Edward’s 25 seconds lead was maintained for 45 mins untill a late flamout caused him to drop to second place and that was the end of it. First clemen pancho, second edward sio , Third rico mendoza .

5  Serpent  Cobra Buggies in the main final and the win !!

For the truggy event, another successfull race for the Team Serpent led by Edward sio /serpent/nova bonito , who TQd with 17 laps , 10 mins and 5 seconds and finished 2nd place overall with Clemen pancho /serpent/nova bonito on First place and denis lucindo/serpent/nova bonito on third place.    TQ, win  and 7  Serpent  Cobra Truggies in the final !!

Easton  TQ and wins Buggy and Truggy Export class with Cobra.  Over half the  A-Main drivers using Serpent cars

Serpent Cobra drivers also TQ and win the Sportsman Buggy and Truggy classes.

Billy Easton reports

FSORS Round #2

Fort Lauderdale,Fl

Mills Pond

Feb.11,2012

It all started on a cold morning in Tampa,FL around 3:30 A.M. as we began our 4:30 minute adventure into the dragons Lair….Mills Pond… This area of Florida is the densest Florida has to offer for skilled drivers that race on a regularly in the Nitro 1/8^th class. You can always expect that there will be good racing and a challenging track.

Mills Pond has some of the better clay in our series line up. They typically have higher speed tracks that prove to be a little more challenging when setting up the car. This years layout was really nice with a lot of high speed and slower speed downhill off camber turns. These types of sections always are a little tricky to find steering and stability. The weather was quite cold as well in the 60’s. In this case you will have to adjust a few things on the cars dampening, spring and sway bar combination to try and balance not only the weather but track layout.

This season has gone quite well for me running both classes. It is tough though, simply because you have no time to glue tires, change the cars and prepare for your next heat race. This event only had 7 heats of drivers. The turnouts have been quite low this season, due to the increased interest in the FORCE series as well. Either way it makes for some good racing.

I started out with my typical setup in both classes and found that my Cobra truggy was a little pushy and loose as well as my buggy. Finding grip is always a challenge in cooler temperatures, but also when the track is hard but damp. Clay is best when its totally dry and the sun is baking down on it. Either way, I have to make adjustments to my oil to account for the temperature. Since the last race we ran was 10 degrees cooler, I went slightly thicker on my oil. Now my Cobra buggy needed a little more love than my truck did, so I also opted for a stiffer front spring. I went to a pink from Red.

In the second round my buggy and truggy both improved which was quite nice and helped me secure the fastest times and TQ position.

In the finals I ran Hole shots on the truggy and Blockades on the buggy, both in M4 compounds by Proline. The tires worked really well and I was very happy with the performance and traction. I think the Proline tires have been really good in the conditions this years series is being run in for the one day format. I have to say it has improved my results. In the truggy final , I lead start to finish with an almost perfect run. In the buggy final, I didn’t run quite as well as I would have liked but overall it was a pretty decent run as well.

I want to say thanks to the Mills Pond crew for doing a great job on getting the track nursed back to health after the rain..

Also, great job to all the Serpent drivers that made the A finals and also the two winners that used our product to win the Sportsman class. With 9 out of 12 pro buggies in the A final, that was really awesome to see. I am happy that so many people really enjoy our Cobra buggy/truggy and the best is yet to come for you guys. We have so many things yet up our sleeves.

Billy

Re : Tamiya Open Race

Serpent driver Sin Dong Cheol got the 2nd with his Cobra truggy in the Tamiya open race which was held in Jeong Wang circuit on Oct 30th.

He also raced buggy class, but no info further available yet.

Team Serpent Korea