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November 24, 2017

Lefebvre & Kemper win at Gulf Coast Grand Prix

The 2017 Gulf Coast Grand Prix was held at Mikes Hobbytown in Porter, Texas with the race having attendees from all three coasts, California, Florida, and Texas. At the start of the GT8 final, Nick Lefebvre (Xray), coming from 4th on the grid, was able to move into 2nd within just a few laps trailing Marcus Williams who was leading. Marcus and his Serpent would need to make an extra fuel stop during the 30-minute main event. With 7:30 to go Nick made his last stop and came out of the pits just behind the leader. This would give Nick the gap he needed as Marcus was making one more stop and in the progress Nick was able to hang onto the lead and cross the line to take the win. Marcus would come in 2nd from Jeff Whiting (Serpent) 3rd.

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November 24, 2017

Chris Kidis dominates RCmaniacs Champs Rd5

The fifth round of the RCmaniacs Championship was held in Argos, Greece. The track was in very good condition although the weather wasn’t good. The fastest class of the weekend, Touring Modified saw Chris Kidis (Xray) having a fantastic racing day. Chris would bring home the win from Sotiris Diamadis (Xray) who tried his best to challenge Chris, while TQ Michalis Kyriazis (Xray) had to settle for 3rd overall.

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November 24, 2017

Adalberto Pinto takes 200mm win at Portuguese Cup

The Travessas track located in S. João da Madeira recently played host to the Portuguese Cup and in the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class it was Adalberto Pinto (Serpent) who took a maiden win in the nitro class. Adalberto started into the A-main from the 10th spot on the grid following some issues in his semifinal but with a strong pace and on only a single set of tyres he was able to bring home the silverware from Frederic Santos (Xray) 2nd and Pedro Grandao (Xray) 3rd.

Thanks to Rui Reis for the report.

November 23, 2017

AMK RC club race Rd2 – Report

The recent second round of the AMK RC club race saw Igor Liptak (Xray) taking the TQ honours in the Touring Stock 17.5T class. Igor went on to win the A-main final also, completely sweeping the competition with the Xray duo of Tomas Valent and Milos Svihran rounding out the top 3 results.

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November 23, 2017

Serpent sign Fangzhou “Rocket” Zhang

Serpent have announced the signing of Chinese frontrunner, Fangzhou Zhang, better known as Rocket Zhang. Rocket is a multiple A-finalist at events such as the TITC, AOC and Chinese National Championships. Rocket will pilot Serpent’s Project 4X touring car at national and international events and he has the following to say:

Thank you very much to Serpent and Mr. Liu for giving me the opportunity to join the team. Serpent has always been a well-known RC brand, has a very complete product lines. I ran Serpent for the first time with the 710 GP to participate in the competition more than 10 years ago. With joining Serpent and be able to get the opportunity to help for researching and development as well as testing is a very wonderful thing. I do really honoured to join the team.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

November 23, 2017

Andrea Pirani rolling on Hot Race rubber for 2018

Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of Italy’s Andrea Pirani to their team. The multiple national Champion and European podium finisher will use the company’s tyres at open races world-wide while also helping with product development.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

November 22, 2017

Danish DRCMU Electric Indoor Nats Rd4 – Report

The Danish town of Tinglev near the German border played host to round 4 of the DRCMU series recently. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Mike Gosvig made a clean sweep in the qualifiers and finals, winning all legs with a two to four second margin. Awesomatix driver Patrick Hornum would come in 2nd from Patrick Danielsen (Xray) 3rd.

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November 22, 2017

Czech Open Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Czech Open Electric On-road Series was held recently and in the Touring Modified class it was Matej Šulc (Xray) who took all qualifiers by over seven seconds from Petr Grof (Yokomo) 2nd and Michal Blahovský (Xray) 3rd. In finals Petr found some speed and got close to Matej but ultimately it was Matej with the win over Petr and Michal.

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