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April 26, 2009

Mark Green wins Dutch 1/8th EFRA GP

Mark Green has won the 2009 EFRA 1/8th scale Dutch GP held at the MACH track in Heemstede. Rain on Sunday caused chaos on-circuit as those racers who had actually decided to run risked it all on a very slippy and wet track. Following the semi finals it was John Ermen, Rick V., Christian Wurst, Oliver Mack, Arie Manten and Joey Sorber that would join the top 4 direct qualifiers Mark Green, Michael Salven, Jordy Blok and Jilles Groskamp in the main final. In the build up to the 45 minute final, the track appeared to be drying, and while still damp no longer had any standing water and this made the tire choice very difficult.

April 26, 2009

Josh Pain takes NT Nitro buggy Champs

The Australian Northern Territory Nitro buggy Championships held this weekend at OCR Raceway. Following his win at the AINC09 last weekend, Team Associated driver Josh Pain picked up the TQ, setting up a huge battle with dual Australian Champion Wayne Walker, and no one was disappointed with what ensued. Despite some drama on the start line with Pain flaming out, the very talented driver had it all to do to chase down Walker in the 45 minute Main, and on lap 55 managed to take the lead when Walker himself had a flame out. The super quick driver never relinquished the lead for the next 38 laps finishing 8 seconds ahead after a grueling 45 minutes on the super fast circuit, both Pain and Walker the only drivers getting into the 26 seconds bracket. With such an exciting battle going on at the front, the rest of the field was left in their wake, Andrew Dun driving the Mugen MBX6, visiting from Queensland, put up a big fight to hold onto 3rd place.

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April 25, 2009

Mark Green TQ’s Dutch EFRA GP

This weekend sees the Dutch 1/8th scale EFRA GP take place at the World famous MACH circuit in Heemstede, close to Amsterdam. Following 2 days of practice on the Thursday and Friday of the event, competitors took to the track on Saturday for qualifying to decide the starting grid for Sunday’s finals. With drivers from Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and England taking part it was multiple World Championship finalist Mark Green that took the top qualifying spot leading home a Serpent top 4 block out on their home track. In 2nd place was Serpent 966 designer Michael Salven, 2 seconds behind, with Jordy Blok and Jilles Groskamp, who is on a one race deal with the Dutch company, in 3rd and 4th. First of the non direct qualifiers was Motonica racer Robin D’hondt, just ahead of Mugen front man Rick V, with positions 3 to 6 covered by less than a second after 7 minutes. The finals will be run tomorrow and we will bring a full report from the days activities tomorrow evening.

Image: Serpent [serpent.com]

April 25, 2009

The Drake wins RCX Truggy

The Drake was in touch to tell us about his success at last weekend’s RCX show put on by U.S. magazine RCCA. Presented by ‘The Dirt’, a small but challenging track was built to allow some of the best off road racers put on a show for the crowds at the show and in the truggy class it was Adam Drake, driving his Novarossi powered Losi 8ight T 2.0, that took home the win and with it the $500 cash prize.

April 23, 2009

Florida State Series round 5

The FSORS season has now crossed the halfway mark and rolled into 555 Raceway this past weekend. Even with several other events going on in central Florida, the race nearly 140 entries. This track is known for brutal conditions, and often blows out badly when a larger event comes to town. The track crew did an excellent job of keeping the surface together with only minor issues throughout the weekend. The Florida sun and strong entry count helped to lay down a great groove and soon racers were switching to harder compound tires.

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April 22, 2009

Marco Müller wins Swiss 1/8th Nats Rd1

Shepherd are reporting from the first race of the 2009 Swiss Nationals that took place in Schaffhausen last weekend. It was Marco Müller’s debut race as a Team Shepherd driver and he dominated the event with his brand new Velox 09. Breaking the existing track record by a sensational 0.2 sec he secured himself the pole position after qualifying. The final proved the great performance of the car, with Marco leading the race from the beginning to end winning from Jürg Nydegger in 2nd and Christophe Pethoud in 3rd. For young Shepherd talent Simon Kurzbuch it was a succesfull weekend, too. He placed 3rd after qualifying and was therefore qualified directly for the final. Unfortunately, he experienced technical difficulties at the beginning of the final and fell back to the last position managing to work back up to 8th position and claim the first place in the junior ranking.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

April 21, 2009

Dutch 1/10th 200mm Nats Rd1

The opening round of the 1/10th scale 200mm Dutch Nationals was held last weekend at the AMCA track in Apeldoorn. Qualifying for the NK class saw Daan Jacobs take the TQ spot in front of Sander Borghoff in 2nd, Jurgen Geerligs in 3rd and Maarten van Lierop taking the final direct final spot in 4th. In the Nomac class, qualifying went the way of Davy Geraets, who would start ahead of Marc Meijer, while in the 1/8th Promo series Danny Essenstam took a clear pole position in front of Jarno Eikendal. In the NK final, the race had to be canceled just before mid point following an altercation on the driver stand between 2 racers that saw a transmitter ending up being dropped. Daan Jacobs was leading at the time from Van Lierop in 2nd and Geerligs in 3rd. In the Nomac class final (above) Marc Meijer ran out the clear winner by 2 laps ahead of Theun Zoethout in 2nd and Michael Behnert 3rd. The most popular class on the day was the 1/8th Promo series, which attracted 24 drivers, and this was won by pole man Danny Essenstam who ended the race a lap clear of Wesley van Silfhout in 2nd and Matthieu Hesterman in 3rd, a lap further back.

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April 21, 2009

Tobias Hepp wins German West 1/8th Rd4

Serpent supported youngster Tobis Hepp has won the fourth round of the 2008/2009 Western German Championship in class 1 of 1/8 scale which was held at Bad Breisig in the south of the former capital Bonn. It was a victory in style with a five lap advantage in the 30 minutes finale race over Frank Schewiola, the winner of round three, and Ralf Vahrenkamp. So the podium was completely in the hand of Serpent, Mega engines and Xceed tyres.

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