July 7, 2012
The 3rd round of the South African Championships were held in the city of Durban, from 30 June to 1 July. The organisers saw a record entry in both 1/10th Touring and 1/8th scale, on the most technical track in South Africa. Reigning South African Champion Wayne Joelson driving the Mugen Seiki MRX5 won all qualifying rounds, and after an engine cut in the 45 minute final managed to take back the lead and win with minutes remaining. Results 1. Wayne Joelson – Mugen Seiki MRX5/Novarossi 2. Dave Wiseman – Serpent 966TE/Mega 3. Daryn Green – Serpent 966/Novarossi 4. Arnold…
November 4, 2010
The 4th and final round of the 2010 South African On Road Gas Nationals took place at the TRAP facility just outside the city of Pretoria recently. Taking TQ in the 1/8th scale class, the only driver to run 18 laps in the qualifiers, was current SA Champion Wayne Joelson driving his Novarossi powered Mugen Seiki MRX4X. The final, which had to be shortened to 40 minutes due to threatening weather, saw Wayne take victory by 5 laps ahead of team mate Faizel Salie in 2nd and Serpent driver Dave Wiseman in 3rd, a lap further back. This results sees…
June 2, 2010
Mid May saw drivers from all around South Africa attend round 2 of the National Championship in East London. In the 1/8th class Wayne Joelson driving a Novarossi powered Mugen Seiki MRX4X who was top qualifier and went on to win the 45 minute final by 5 laps. Second place was Steve Munslow while in third place overall was James Brauns making it a Mugen Seiki 1-2-3. In the 200mm Nitro Touring Class, Rowan Bower with his Mugen Seiki MTX4R won the 30 minute final from the TQ position, setting a new lap record. Second place was Dave Wiseman with…
August 13, 2009
…to come in for a drive through penalty. But that penalty only made Gibson drive that much harder and as the laps clicked away he was laying down some of the fastest laps of the event. Quickly closing in on Wiseman and Wiseman could see it. With 1 lap to go there was 2 meters between the 2 and Gibson closed in on the last lap and with just the chicane to go Gibson was right on Wisemans bumper, only a perfect last corner could give him a shot at the win, Gibson nailed it just right and caught Wiseman…
July 29, 2009
…nobody could have predicted an outcome. Both drivers driving Motonica’s cars with Novarossi engines set a tough pace during practice. Steven TQ’d the event and Leigh was able to get to 5th place with the other top South African’s filling in the other positions. The race had a lot of excitement until Steven’s RX battery pack gave in, allowing Mugen driver Wayne Joelson to take over up front and claim the win. 1/10 Nitro Touring – This class had 20 competitors in which the competition was as good as ever. Mike Wiseman driving a Serpent was the TQ man for…
March 14, 2008
Serpent are reporting on the achievements of their South African team, which scored an important victory for the S400 as the three man Serpent squad of Dave Wiseman, Mike Wiseman and Tony D’ Oliviera took overall victory in the Nosram Six Series, an endurance series that takes in three 6 hour races run over a two month period. The first event at the tight Umhlanga Gateway Raceway, saw a tight fight right to the end, with the S400 car of Mike, Dave and Tony D’Oliviera, taking the win by just one lap, approx 16 seconds, after 6 hours of racing….
August 21, 2007
Serpent have a report online from the 3rd round of the South African 1/8th and 1/10th scale Nationals held at the very large Durban track recently. In qualifying it was Mike Wiseman all the way, taking the TQ with his Serpent 720 and 960 respectively continuing his dominant form from the first 2 rounds of the National series. In the 1/10th scale race it was a great dice between Mike Wiseman and Travis Carlyle, as they fought for the win with Wiseman eventually coming out on top. Finishing 2nd, Carlyle now leads the Championship with one round to go while…
May 3, 2007
Following on from his dominant performance in round 1 of the South African National championshisp Mike Wiseman has won again in round 2, which took place last weekend in Pretoria. In 1:8th qualifying it was a tight tussle between Hein Kotze, Wayne Joelson and Mike Wiseman, with Mike eventually taking the TQ by almost two seconds in the final round and in the final Mike drove away to a clear 2 lap victory finishing ahead of Joelson in 2nd with a hard charging Faizel Salie in 3rd. In 1:10 class Wiseman also claimed the TQ position with his Serpent 720…
