Serpent Teamblog

Kevin Manders  with Serpent showed a strong performance with the Cobtra Truck, on the Astro-turf track in Helmond.

Kevin Cornellisen with Cobra Truck is still leading the championship , with Bas  from Bee racing  with Cobra-T  going for vice champion in the last leg  of the season.

More images:

http://www.rc-junkies.nl/news/index.php/2011/09/fotos-van-de-6e-race-van-de-pk-truggy-cup-2011/

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2-speed Distribution

23-9-2011

For the 6th round of the Dutch Truggy cup we headed to the lovely south of Holland.

In Helmond they have a nice facility with a 1:10/1;8 and 1;6 scale off-road circuit all covered with artificial grass.

The track is technical but and tricky but still has a good flow.
The weather for an exception was nice and sunny and we were promised a dry day and 23 degree Celsius temps.

Since the last wet weather race I checked the cars bearings on the front and rear coupler but did not noticed any problem. We only refilled the shocks with 300 cSt Mugen oil. Rest of the car in KIT configuration.

For the first qualification I opted to use the LRP Kamikaze Super Soft tyres.
Made some small mistakes and reached 9 laps.
Only problem I noticed larger right hand turns compared to left.

So in Q2 I set the servo saver spring a tad harder (a few turns).
A little better but still right hands turns were less then left hand side.
Again 9 laps in a little better time.

I checked the EPA on the steering and this was at maximum for both sides.

Q3 I used AKA City Blocks in Medium compound and could improve again my result but still 9 laps as maximum and still the left hand corners could be taken much sharper.

After talking before the finals to an other Serpent driver he said to make the right hand side EPA a little larger even we already set it at maximum. So we did.

We only changed the clutch bearings in the pause.

In the ½ B-main final we found the new EPA setting cured our difference in left and right hand side turning.
Remember not to overshoot the EPA setting too much!
We reached the A-main final even with a flame out at place 8 th.

At the start of the A-main final I managed to steer around some car pile ups and was at place 3 after corner 3. Then I made a mistake too and place 12 was the result. In the 30 minute final I opted to do a 9 minute refuel strategy. But for some reason the engine flamed before the first refuel stop. So although I was in the mid field again I dropped to the last running spot again.

Finished 9^th overall. Was happy with the car, engine lacked some bottom power compared to the rest of the competition. As said no mechanical problems in the car.

The A-main final was made up with 6 snake cars out of 12 finalist!
So all attending Snake drivers were in the A-main final.

The A-main final was won by Kevin Manders with his first truggy race using the Cobra S811 Truggy powered by Alpha Plus engine. He was on charge and unstoppable.

Current table leader Kevin Cornelis also in the A-main had a flame out too.
TQ spot went to Bas de Konink but he some servo and servo saver problems using the snake.
Other Snake driver Jan van Dijk (Mr. JVD) finished 4^th
Erik Aries had clutch bell problem stripping it, he finished 7th
So with 6 snakes in the final and a win the Snake factory can be satisfied that the victories at this side of the ocean are no problem.

Next race is in 4 weeks time.

More to come for sure as the championship will be decided there……maybe in favor for a snake…….

Paco Raap for TEAM TWF8

1. Clemen Pancho with Serpent Cobra Truck
2. Jordan Go with Serpent Cobra Truck
3. Rico Mendoza

Australian FEMCA Truggy Race.

Mitch Jupe sends us a Race Report from the Australian FEMCA Truggy Race. Mitch had a great weekend of racing and finished 3rd overall.
Day 1:
Open Practice. I was very excited to get out on the new layout for the FEMCA Truggy Titles. It was open practice all day so every chance I got I was out there just trying to dial into the very technical layout. The log section was difficult at first but once i figured it out I was all sorted through there. Everything went well in practice and I was very happy with the Serpent.
Day 2:
We started the two timed practice rounds which would determine what heat you would be in. After the practice rounds I was 7th overall which got me in the top qualifier. So I was pleased with that. First qualifier came Thursday arvo and I decided to try some Soft Subcultures, which felt awesome out there. The qualifier went well with no dramas and I got a pretty solid 13 lapper so I was very happy with how it went.
Day 3:
Qualifying all day I was set to lay some good times down, but a small mistake in the first qualifier from the night before left my engine coming loose at the start of the qualifier, so there was my dropped round. Second qualifier I had a pretty good run. I got another 13 lapper so just keeping it consistent was what I was after. Last qualifier of the day was hassle free getting another smooth run in.
Day 4:
Saturday left the last two qualifiers in the morning. I decided to go for Soft Subcultures again. After Qualifiying was sorted out I was sitting 10th overall which was a lot better than I was expecting.
Day 5:
Sunday started the finals but it also started the rain. It rained in the morning and quarters where run in the wet along with my semi. It was challenging in the mud but i just kept it consistent and tried to stay out there, I ended up 5th which got me through.
The rain had stopped and we only had an hour to clean the cars before the A final. The track was in pretty good nick with the racing line just a bit wet but had a lot of grip because of the sticky clay. If you went off the line though it was just muddy. So i started from 10th and just pushed in the final to make it through the pack a bit, just keeping my laps consistent and after the 45 minutes I was sitting in 3rd. I cruised through to the finish to make the podium at the FEMCA Truggy Titles.
Thanks to Ari at HEI/JConcepts, and also Plaig RC.

Kevin Cornelissen won the Truggy race in Friesland, north of Holland with his very fast and durable  Serpent Cobra Truck.

His team-mate Bas de Koning who won the previous races with Cobra Truggy, TQ-ed the race, but dropped out of the semi when a servo-screw came out.

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