Former IFMAR ISTC World and Asian Champion Surikarn C. has joined the Serpent nitro team to race 1/8th nitro off-road buggy and 1/10th nitro on-road classes on a national and international level. Surikarn’s race calendar will see appearances at major Thai races along selected international races such as the FEMCA 1/10th GP in Hong Kong and the Asia Contest in Pattaya.
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Following his departure from Team Durango Germany’s Gerd Strenge now officially teamed up with Serpent for a long term cooperation that will combine racing, event support and product development duties. Gerd joins his protégé Jörn Neumann, who only recently signed with Serpent, as his race mechanic and engineer. Gerd will also assist Serpent’s on-road designer Michael Salven and also Billy Easton, who cares about everything off-road, with prototyping, testing and product development. Gerd’s first main event under the Serpent banner will be this week’s Dirt Nitro Challenge that you can follow on Red RC from Wednesday on.
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Serpent have two new bodyshells for the Spyder MM 2WD mid motor buggy available. They come in a fully pre-painted version in Serpent’s orange, silver, black and white signature colours or semi-painted in silver, white and black to have your favourite colour added. Both bodies are a direct fit and help to get you on the track much quicker as they do away with the odd guess work about designs, masking and painting.
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New from Serpent and made for the Spyder series of 1/10th buggies and SC trucks is the Slide Drive system that was designed to create a more precise connection of the differential outdrives and driveshafts. The design idea revolves around hardened steel sliders that replace the standard drivepins on the driveshafts. The system is meant to develop less play for an improved power supply to the wheels while reducing maintenance intervals at the same time. The sets are available for the 2WD buggies and SC trucks with ball differentials and include new outdrives, driveshafts and the Slide Drive sliders including mounting bolts.
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Serpent has announced the signing of Jörn Neumann to their factory off-road team. Serpent and Neumann agreed in a long term commitment which includes racing, testing and commercial work as sales promoter with Jörn racing Serpent’s full range of 1/8th and 1/10th nitro and electric off-road vehicles and he may even have a go in 1/12th scale racing to battle with racing buddy Hupo Hönigl who joined the Serpent factory team in January. Jörn will continue his racing career alongside longtime mechanic and mentor Gerd Strenge who will act as his mechanic and race engineer. The forthcoming Dirt Nitro Challenge will be Jörn’s first outing for his new sponsor and he has the following to say about the deal:
The full package made me think not long. A sales-support and promotional job and continue being a Pro driver is very good for the future. On top of that Gerd Strenge will be my mechanic and race engineer. This was an amazing opportunity which we had to take. The current Serpent car-line up is one of the most complete ones in the entire RC industry.
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Having just earlier today announced that he was to leave long time sponsor Tamiya, Viktor Wilck has been confirmed at Team Serpent. The Swedish ace has signed a long term deal with the Dutch brand to run their complete lineup of cars, both on and offroad, and will be making his touring car debut this weekend at the 2nd round of the ETS in Muelheim Kaerlich, Germany. The deal sees Serpent further strengthen their factory race time with Wilck joining Marc Fischer on the EP TC team, Greiner, Mazzeo, Green and the Sahashi brothers in the Gas TC team and Mike Truhe, Hupo Honigl and a soon to be confirmed German superstar on the offroad team. Viktor had this to say about his new deal:
I’m happy to reach this agreement with Serpent and HP Hobbyprodukter. I felt there was time for a change and after a close relationship with Swedish distributor this opportunity came a long that I could not pass on. I have seen the quality of there products from racing Serpent’s nitro cars and was impressed by their performance so I am really looking forward to this new partnership and to the prospects of achieving good results together over the coming years.
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Serpent introduce the S120 LTR kit, the latest incarnation of the company’s popular 1/12th scale platform. The refined car features an updated front end with better adjustability and a new, innovation rear centre pivot system. Starting with the front end, the LTR features new upper arms and updated steering blocks that do away with the horizontal upper pivot ball in favour of a more standard looking system that allows for easier kingpin angle changes using inserts. Going to the rear end the LTR sports a totally new central pivot system that mounts to the rear upper brace rather than the main chassis as with most of today’s link-type cars. The design is meant to do away with binding issues while creating improved sidelink action. Along with the updated rear end design goes a new shape chassis and rear lower pod plate that allows to run the side springs in an inner or an out position. The kit is rounded out by a new centre shock bracket, new low centre of gravity rear pod brackets and it will become available by mid-February.
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Serpent America has announced the signing of Dylan Gerard. Gerard, a former TLR driver, is a well-known name around the United States, and even more so in the mid-western region. The Ohio native will be equipped with the full line of Serpent vehicles for 2015, including 1/10th and 1/8th scale. Gerard has the following to say:
I’m very excited to have been given the opportunity to drive for Serpent and Desoto Racing. I’m looking forward working with the team to help take my racing to the next level with their knowledge and mine combined it will be a perfect fit. Serpent has the best quality product and very fast cars to back it up. I want to thank Paul Ciccarello and Joaquin Desoto for this great opportunity.
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