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October 22, 2013

EJ Evans wins at 4th Annual TOP Gun Challenge

EJ Evans wins the 4th Annual TOP Gun Challenge

The 4th annual TOP Gun Challenge at Norcal Hobbies was run last weekend. The race is put on by TOP Racing and Norcal Hobbies that follows a Top Gun movie theme. Past winner have included Hayato Matsuzaki and Rick Hohwart and this year’s race saw over 120 entries and is unique as first place trophies are fighter pilot helmets. The Open Modified class is ran Reedy style with 8 rounds of heads up racing. The winner gets an automatic invite to the 2014 Reedy Race of Champions Invitational Class. This year it was TOP Racing’s EJ Evans who took home the victory. Evans won in dominating fashion winning all of his 8 rounds. Second place went to 2013 Reedy Open Mod champion Ethan Erchinger (Xray) and third place to 2013 Reedy Open Mod finalist Lex Tyler (Yokomo). Beside the Open Modified class several other classes were run Sportsman Modified, 17.5T Expert and Sportsman, VTA, Mini and Expert Nitro.

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October 22, 2013

Pro Stock Series season finale – Report

As a result of a joint venture between Shepherd Micro Racing and German Serpent distributor 2-Speed the Pro Stock Series was created as a follow-up series of the popular Hobby Cup which was run and supported by Shepherd for the past 10 years. The series features regional races all across Germany with a grand final being held at the end of the season to determine the overall winners. This year the final took place at the beautiful track of the Wiesbaden Mini Car Club in the centre of Germany. Practise started on Saturday with all participants trying to find the best setup for their cars. In the 1/10th scale class newly crowned European Champion 40+ Bernd Hasselbring and Hobby Cup Champion 2011 Marcus May were the favourites for the overall title, while Alex Kempe – normally pitman for Patrick Schäfer – showed a great performance too and joined the list of possible race winners for the prestigious final. In the 1/8th scale class it was clear that the race and the championship would be decided between Serpent’s Patrick Gassauer and Shepherd’s Timo Schröder as both clocked clearly the fastest laptimes.

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October 16, 2013

Duarte Faria wins at Madeira regional champs Rd5

The 5th round of the Madeira Island regional championship took place at the Pista da Cancela track. Duarte Faria took the win in the 200mm nitro class in front of Paulo Kibby Rodrigues and Alcino Camacho. Nuno Rodrigues and Luis Angelo completed the top 5. The win of the 5th round also secured Duarte the runner-up spot in the 2013 championship.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 15, 2013

Martin Bayer wins Czech nats Rd6

The 6th round of the Czech 1/8th buggy nationals took place in Dolni Bukovsko. Although missing one round of the championship Xray’s Martin Bayer had good chances to win the overall championship on home soil after wrapping up this year’s German championship. The practice rounds had to be cancelled due to a water soaked track so everyone had to jump directly into qualifying and at the end it was Martin Bayer who took the overall TQ. At the start of the final Martin went out in front but soon got hit by backmarkers which cost him around half a lap and he was down to third position. He then soon recovered and was able to take the lead again. At he end he not only took the win in front of Xray teammates David Kukla and Jiří Mára but also the overall 2013 championship title.

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October 15, 2013

Adrian W successful at Jakarta Regional champs Rd5

The 5th round of the Jakarta Regional Buggy championship was held at the Boya Racing Track in Tajur, Indonesia. The schedule saw three 10 minute qualifying rounds with the best two to count. Malik Hakinen (Kyosho/Novarossi) took TQ but at the end of the 45 minute final it was Kyosho/Novarossi driver Adrian W who took the winning honours in front of Malik Hakinen and Yusuf Chopin (HongNor/Novarossi).

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October 15, 2013

Alberto Garcia wins Spanish Truggy nationals

Last weekend the Spanish 1/8th Truggy nationals tool place. After not being able to participate in the practice rounds Serpent’s Alberto Garcia made the maximum out of the limited track time and TQ’d qualifying round 1 and 3 to take the overall TQ for the 60 minute final. In the first part of the A-main Alberto was in a hard battle with Javier Pombo but a mistake of the Mugen driver made way for Alberto who was then able to cruise to the overall victory. The runner-up spot went to Javier (Mugen) with Daniel Vega (Agama) completing the podium.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 12, 2013

Perfect race nets Sahashi World title

A perfect 60-minute display of driving netted Tadahiko Sahashi the 1:8 Onroad World title this evening in Japan. Making his World Championship final debut, the Serpent driver cruised to victory to becomes the 11th driver to lift the biggest prize in the sport’s oldest category taking a comfortable win over the Mugen/OS pairing of Takaaki Shimo and Atsushi Hara. The 19th running of the World Championship, Sahashi’s win marks Italian manufacturer Picco’s first World title in the sport’s Formula One category and the first title for Serpent since 1997. In the pitlane it was Picco’s Eduardo Picco and Serpent designer Michael Salven who ensured perfect fuel & tyre stops en route to the 24-year-old taking a hugely popular win.

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October 12, 2013

Sahashi on pole for World Championship Final

Team Serpent’s Tadahiko Sahashi will start the 1:8 Onroad World Championship final at KeiTune Racing Speedway in Japan from pole position after the Top Qualifier took a faster win in the second Semi-Final than Takaaki Shimo managed in opening 30-minute encounter. Starting from the front Sahasi lead from start to finish, the only blotch in the near perfect run being the loss of a rear wheel off his Picco powered 977 when he was released from his tyre stop. Such was the Japanese drivers lead however once the rest of the field completed their tyre stops he was back in front eventually taking the win by over a lap from Atsushi Hara and HB’s Teemu Leino. The story of the race however was the recovery drive from European Champion Jilles Groskamp.

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