Thursday, January 4, 2007
John Ermen joins Serpent Team Netherlands Categories - Serpent, Gas, On Road, Racing, Drivers - comments closed
Serpent are reporting that multiple Dutch National Champion John Ermen has signed to race for Serpent Netherlands in the 2007 season. Returning to the Dutch manufacturer after a number of years away racing for Mugen, John will be seen as one of the favourites for the Dutch title this year.
The current 1:8 Dutch National Vice-Champion, Ermen will head Serpent’s challenge for 1:8 success in its home country. Racing since 1990, Â having caught the bug for rc racing from his father and older brother, Â John has an impressive racing CV which includes three World Championships appearances including the 2001 event in Australia.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Serpent release new website Categories - Industry, Serpent, Racing - comments closed
Serpent have today launched their all new website, serpent.com, which is a major upgrade from their previous site mytsn.com. Having been present online since the early days of the internet (it was the first web site i ever visited back in the early 90’s), Serpent have been a pioneer in their use of the web in presenting their products and news and this new site is simply the next step in the use of that technology.
What you see in front of you is a totally new platform complete with some neat new features, with more to come online soon such as RSS feeds, and a simple and easy to use interface. Our site of course will continue to be updated regularly with news from around the world as well as continuous product releases.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Serpent USA release new Lola bodyshell Categories - Bodies, Serpent, On Road, Products - comments closed
Serpent USA have released a new Lola CanAm body shell for 1/8th scale. Designed with trim lines for the Serpent 960, this lightweight body has been tested by Paolo Morganti and he declared himself pleased with the balance of the body and commented that it had good steering yet really good rear traction also. It’s available next week under part number #SUS31490.
View more pictures of the body here.
Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Kyle Branson impresses as SDD driver Categories - Gas, Serpent, On Road, International, Racing, Drivers - comments closed
Serpent have a report on their site on Kyle Branson, the Serpent Driver Development programs youngest driver. The 13 year old seems to have had a busy and successful season traveling the world and racing.
His first venture onto foreign asphalt was the Dutch 1:10 GP at Heemstede as preparation for the European Championships. This preparartion would stand to Kyle as he successfully defended his European Junior crown in the difficult wet conditions. From there it was on to Australia no less for the 2006 IFMAR 1:10 World Championships in Brisbane.
You can read the full report here.
Source: Serpent [mytsn.com]
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
EXCLUSIVE - Serpent F180 body shots Categories - Serpent, Gas On Road, Cars, Products - comments closed
Red RC have EXCLUSIVE shots of the new Formula car from Serpent, the F180, that is due to be released in kit and RTR versions in the new year. These pictures have not yet been released and we are privelaged to be the first to get them and be allowed show them to you. In previous pictures there was no body with the car or the body was clear. The 3 pictures of the car, with painted body, that we have really give a clear idea of how it will look on the track and exposes those oh so familiar F1 lines. Thanks to Serpent for giving us the EXCLUSIVE on these images….did i mention EXCLUSIVE….oh yeh i think i did :)
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
John Sotiropoulos is Greek 1/8th National Champion Categories - Serpent, Gas, On Road, National, Racing - comments closed
Serpent have a report on their site celebrating the fact that they have won the 2006 Greek 1/8th scale championship. John Sotiropoulos claimed the title driving a Serpent 960 and benefitted from a bit of luck in the last round of the championship to have his main title rival John Arkoumanis fall out after he himself had problems.
With his main rival also encountering problems the RC Microracing driver worked his way back to fourth position enough to give him the winning margin in the standings over Kyosho driver John Arkoumanis. Backing up the strength of the Serpent 960/Mega package Vaggelis Papachristos took third overall in the championship standings.
You can read the full report here.
Source: Serpent [mytsn.com]
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Serpent release drive calculator Categories - Serpent, Gas On Road, Accessories, Products - comments closed
Belgian racer Christophe De Vocht has developed a Drive Calculator program to work out drive ratios for all of Serpents current, and some older, models. The user can input all the pulley sizes as well as the tyre diameters for it to work out the ratio, it will also suggest a tyre size to get a user determined front to rear drive ratio too. As far as we are aware Christophe has also made versions for other manufacturers too.
You can download the drive calculator here or from the 960, 835 and 720 download pages on Serpent’s site.
Source: Serpent [mytsn.com]
Saturday, October 28, 2006
The Serpent 960 of Sukenari Sahasi Categories - Serpent, Gas On Road, Cars, Products - comments closed
Central RC, a large importer, shop and track owner in Japan, have released pictures (and setupsheet) of the Serpent 960 of their top driver Sukenari Sahasi. The car is the one that Sahasi will use in next weeks Japanese 1/8th scale Nationals. As you can see from the pictures the car has been extensively softened with modifications to the car that allow it to flex more than that of the standard 960. The car has also been lightened as is the norm with any top driver trying to extract the miliseconds from their car.
You can view pictures of his car here.
Source: Central RC [centralrc.co.jp]
