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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

Last weekend was held the last round of the National Champs 1/8 off road buggy and truggy on the new design Arena track near Athens, Greece. For team Serpent we had 4 drivers for buggy and 1 for truggy. Costas Agrafiotis participated in both categories with his new Serpent cars for first time.

In truggy category Costas was very fast from the qualifiers and missed the TQ by 1 second after a stop and go! In the main final after a spectacular race with the second placed driver he took the victory in this first race  with new Serpent Cobra Truggy.

In buggy category there were lot of  experienced drivers in a new track with Costas to drive for the first time the Cobra 811.  On qualification Costas trying to find a good setup and has taken 8th place on main final after success at the semi final.

After 45 minutes Costas finished on 8th place not bad for a driver that had not practiced a lot the new design and with a new car. Congratulations to all Serpent drivers!

Photos By www.rccars.gr (with Parthenon background)

Team Serpent Greece

Sept 25,2011 , Junkyard Racetrack. Serpent cup was held with a graet success and support from the  local  and out of town players  and from DOGBONE HOBBY SHOP.

A special guest driver from Netherland Serpent Onroad champion driver, Julius Kolf, was also in town to join the race.

There were 3 mains on buggy and 2 mains on truggy with 14 players on each main with a bump up on the finals . Aside from trophies that were up for grab,  a Brand New Serpent buggy Kit  was also being raffled, a special thank to Dogbone Hobby Shop for sponsoring and making this race so much fun.  The qualifying started around 9am with the track being a bit muddy n bumpy due to the rain a day before the raceday.  A very exciting event , Serpent having  morethan 20 entries on buggy n truggy , followed by Mugen and having for the first time a JQ buggy kit driven by the veteran  driver Raffy Abello who TQ’d the overall qualifying.  Not a really good day for some top drivers like jordan go, clemen pancho and raffy abello as these drivers encountered different mechanical problems during the finals.  Raffy with his JQ buggy had to retire early after 1 lap with a mechanical trouble, jordan go with his X2 truggy had to retire with a diff problem and so was clemen  pancho with his Serpent buggy.  With clemen n raffy being sidelined during the buggy main, it was jordan who controlled and led the entire Amain finals  followed by  WERKS engine sponsored driver Nani Tagle, Dennis Lucindo Serpent .

Now on Truggy AMain finals, jordan with his X2 who led early on the race retired after few minutes and it was up to serpent drivers edward, dennis, rico , jopo and mugen driver Jody.  About 20 mins left in the finals ,jody on first followed by edward about 1-2 seconds behind runout of fuel and that ended his bid for a podium.   Ended the mains with Jody mugen on first, denis serpent second and third felix serpent . Congratulations guys.

The much awaited raffle PRIZE of 1 unit Serpent Buggy Kit was   won by Serpent Driver DEXTER  SULLERA.  Congratues.

Team Serpent Ph.