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October 11, 2023

Hamon TQs Q3 after Catanzani penalised for track limits

Jeff Hamon has taken the TQ for the third round of qualifying at the 1:8 GT World Championship but only after a post race time penalty was applied to his Serpent team-mate Andrea Catanzani for track limits. Having run out of fuel while on a TQ run in the opening qualifier this morning, and then suffering a flame out in Q2, Catanzani looked to bring the first day of qualifying in Sydney to a close by finally delivering a TQ run. Given a warning during the qualifier about track limits, later in the heat the Italian was called to serve a drive through penalty but didn’t have time to serve it. Crossing the line as the TQ, it initially looked like the result would stand but a protest was made and some time later he was informed he would have 3-seconds added to his time dropping him behind Hamon. While his team argued that the track limits rule was nothing they had come across before, and was something more applicable to Formula 1, they had no grounds to appeal the penalty. In all the drama it was top be a very good round for defending Champion Joern Neumann as the Sworkz driver posted the third fastest time ahead of Alex D’angelo and Natanaele Senesi. Having TQ’d the first two rounds, Toni Gruber would get 6th for the round having opted to go with used tyres.

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October 10, 2023

Paloschi denies Hamon in penultimate seeding round

An impressive run in the third & penultimate round of seeding practice by Serpent’s Gabriele Paloschi has denied team-mate Jeff Hamon from securing an early top seed status at the 1:8 GT World Championship in Australia this evening. Running a heat earlier than the championship’s title favourites, Paloschi’s impressive time went pretty much unnoticed as Hamon went on to top the final heat of the round from Toni Gruber, which the Aussie and almost everyone else thought had secured him the top seed spot for qualifying. Running his three laps in 55.844, European Championship podium finisher Paloschi had ran his in 55.821. With the second round of seeding a repeat of the opening run, Hamon from Andrea Catanzani and Xray’s Natanaele Senesi, Paloschi topping the third round moves him up to third in Serpent lockout of the top 3 going into the final seeding run in the morning.

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October 10, 2023

Catanzani just pipped by Hamon in first seeding round

Serpent’s Andrea Catanzani looked like giving us a new name at the top of the timing sheets at 1:8 GT World Championship as seeding got underway in Australia but with just seconds to go team-mate Jeff Hamon somehow managed to recover from a problematic start to the run to snatch it from the young Italian. A run that would see a number of drivers in the top heat experience issues, Catanzani was the first driver to break into the 54-seconds for his 3-consecutive laps and looking to save tyres was already down off the rostrum just after half way through the 10-minutes run with his time looking strong enough to hold. Having set the pace yesterday, Hamon was also off the driver stand but for different reasons as he suffered brake problems. Considering abandoning the run, with just enough time to make an attempt at 3-laps after fixing his breaks the Aussie pulled it off pipping Catanzani by 0.094 of a second. Having finished out yesterday’s controlled practice with some promising runs, Natanaele Senesi carried that form into seeding opening his account with a P3 for the first of the four rounds ahead of Paolo Morganti and Toni Gruber.

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October 9, 2023

Hamon sets early pace at GT World Championship

Serpent’s Jeff Hamon is the early pace setter in practice at the IFMAR 1:8 GT World Championship in Sydney, Australia. Winner of the Worlds Warm-up Race back in April when the final was rained off, the Australian set his fastest 3-consecutive laps ahead of Hong Nor’s Toni Gruber – Hamon’s best run coming in the cool conditions of the morning first practice while Gruber’s best came in the 31 degree heat of the fourth of the 6 rounds on today’s schedule. IGT8 boss Paolo Morganti sits third fastest with European GT Champion Bernard-Alain Arnaldi making it four different manufacturer at the top of the timing sheets driving his Genius Racing chassis. With visiting drivers trying to get their heads around the low grip levels at the John Grant International Raceway track, which hosted the 1:8 Onroad World Championship back in 2001, European GT Championship Top Qualifier Andrea Catanzani sits fifth fastest ahead of the Sworkz of reigning World Champion Joern Neumann, who like fellow countryman Gruber found improvement in CP4.

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September 27, 2023

Serpent SRX8GTE LWB ‘23 1:8 EP

Following the release of the SRX8GTE ‘23 in July, Serpent has now added a long wheel base version kit to its electric 1:8 GT chassis line-up. On the new SRX8GTE LWB ‘23 model, which shares all the developments seen on the SRX8GTE ‘23, they have extended the chassis an additional 29mm for use with all true to scale related RC Bodies. This places the wheel base at 259mm +/- 2.5mm.

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August 11, 2023

Serpent SRX8 GTE LWB Raceroller

Serpent is now offering a version of their successful Serpent SRX8 GTE 1:8 GT chassis as a pre-assembled and factory pre-set LWB chassis with pre-mounted GT tyres. For the new SRX8GTE LWB Raceroller, Serpent has extended the chassis an additional 29mm for use with all true to scale related RC bodies. This durable GT chassis allows a great entry in the racing scene, at a lower cost, and will make you finish your races. Featuring 4-wheel-drive with cardan shafts, 2 geardiffs, solid center axle, 16mm bigbore shocks, aluminium shocktower and chassis and easy radiobox, it is fully upgradable with parts and options from the high end race-version. The parts that are needed to run the car are a bodyshell, esc, motor, servo and battery.

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July 17, 2023

Serpent SRX8GTE ‘23 1:8 EP GT

Serpent has released their latest 1:8 GTE chassis, the SRX8GTE ’23. The electric GT shares many new features from their recently released and highly evolved SRX8GT ’23 nitro version that took the TQ spot and third place at the recent European Championships in Croatia. The SRX8GTE ’23 shares design details, components from every evolution of SRX8 whether be on-road or off-road version, along with new ones not seen before on any previous model. On the new SRX8GTE ‘23 Serpent has extended the chassis an additional 2mm for improved handling. The chassis is also equipped with holes pre drilled for optional weights. The kit also gets all new ‘hybrid’ bulkheads, an all new Split Center Diff, and a lighter Motor Mount and Slide. Other new parts include a new Light weight Rear Bodymount, new Front/Rear Pivot blocks, all new Adjustable Caster Blocks, and new Steering Blocks.

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July 10, 2023

Hamon wins QLD 1:8 Onroad title

Jeff Hamon added another State Championships title for 2023, this time the Serpent driver claiming 1:8 Onroad Queensland title at England Park Raceway. Having won the NSW State Titles in electric Touring Car back in May, Hamon would pull off the perfect weekend in his specialist class of 1:8 nitro topping four of the 6 rounds of qualifying to secure the overall TQ. Behind Tim Moylan secured P2 with two TQ runs with P3 on the grid going to Hamish Scott. Over the half hour final the World Championship Finalist would control the race to eventually win by a lap from the Infinity of Russell Grenenger with the Serpent of Rick Bartolozzi completing the podium. An event support by Speedy RC, in the 1:10 title race it was the Infinity of Brayden Stanley who took victory.

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