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January 28, 2007

Serpent prepared for the 2007 Winternats

2007 Winternats

With all the talk surrounding next months Florida Winternats concerning the international race debut of the Xray NT1, its good to also hear how the other teams are approaching the event. Seprent Motorsport from Holland have published a piece on their site outlining their preperations for thos race and also the team that they are sending.

The current 1:10 Winternat Champions, Serpent’s line up will include defending champion Paolo Morganti who will also race also in the 1:8 category. Joining him in 1:10 is fellow countryman and top Florida State Series competitor DJ Apollo who knows the Florida track well. Adding an international flavour to Team Serpent’s line is Factory driver Mark Green, emerging Austrian talent Daniel Tomaschko, fellow country man Gerhard Kandelhart and top Dutch racers Richard Keur & Ruud Schuitmaker.

Read the full article here.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

January 25, 2007

Paul LeMieux confirmed to race NT1

All round top Xray driver Paul LeMieux has been confirmed to drive the all new NT1 this season and will be debuting at the upcoming Winternats in Florida at the beginning of February. In this week alone, Jilles Groskamp and Carlos Peracho have been signed up to the big names already running the new car like Ralph Burch and Barry Baker. Which such a big team and so much hype around the release of this car lets hope it doesn’t dissapoint.

I have seen a lot of RC factories and tracks around the world but nothing even comes close to XRAY’s amazing new facility. I very proud to have such a professional company and very nice people supporting me. Testing and running the NT1 went great, it was no surprise to me but very impressive that XRAY’s very first nitro touring car will be top notch from the start.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 24, 2007

Taylor Peterson wins US Indoor Gas Champs

US Indoor Gas Champs

Taylor Peterson showed he was the class of the field by winning both the buggy and truggy class at last weekend US Indoor Gas Champs. Held in one of the largest indoor arenas in Utah, the Kyosho racer easily won the buggy final by 2 laps ahead of 2nd place finisher and TQ man Gary Guest with Ronnie Gardner finishing 3rd. In the truggy class it was a bit closer but Peterson still had an 11 second buffer over 2nd place Gary Guest with Ryan McCrery 2 laps further back in 3rd.

You can view the full results here.

Source: Buggy-Sport [buggy-sport.info]

January 24, 2007

Carlos Peracho signs for Team Xray

Multiple Spanish champion and European Championship finalist, Carlos Peracho has left Serpent to sign for Team Xray to race the NT1. Carlos has strong links to both manufacturers through his family distribution company that imports both lines into Spain and after many years driving for the Dutch manufacturer has decided on a change. Despite moving to Xray in the 1/10th class, Carlos will continue to race Serpent in the 1/8th scale class.

Coming to XRAY I was surprised and doubly shocked. First when I first saw the whole facility/factory and the world’s most unique and best racing facility, and then second after seeing and testing the NT1. I have many years’ experience with nitro touring cars and I just could not believe how quickly I was able to improve my best lap times using the NT1.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 23, 2007

Jason Ashton joins Sidorf

Neo Buggy are reporting that 2004 ROAR National 1/8th scale off road Champion has signed to race for Spanish manufacturer Sidorf. Jason was in Spain last week testing the car and to sign a 2 year deal to race and promote the Sidorf brand in the USA, where it is still a relative unknown.

Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

January 23, 2007

Kazuya Tanaka wins Japan Off-Road Car Cup

Kazuya Tanaka

RB Products are reporting on the recent Japan Off-Road Car Cup that was held on the demanding and dusty Saitama circuit. Top drivers were present including Yuichi Kanai, Kenji Osaka as well as last years Japanese Nationals top qualifier Kazuya Tanaka. After qualifying it was current Japanese National champion Kenji Osaka who took the TQ ahead of Tanaka but in the race Tanaka was able to run away with the race amazingly only having to stop twice for fuel in the 30 minute race.

You can read the full report here.

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]

January 23, 2007

Jilles Groskamp confirmed to race NT1

Xray have posted a piece on their site confirming that top Team Xray racer Jilles Groskamp will race the NT1 along with his electric duties. His first race will be at the Winternats at the start of February and this statement was probably issued to remove any doubt over what gas cars he will race having done several important races for Serpent last year.

…and additionally will join the team to support and run the new XRAY NT1 in nitro touring car races. Jilles will debut the NT1, together with the rest of Team XRAY, at the upcoming US Winternationals in Florida.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 22, 2007

Adam Drake all the way at the Midwest Nitro Champs

Adam Drake

Adam Drake has dominated on dirt once more, this time at the annual Midwest Nitro Champs held last weekend in Ohio at the CRCRC indoor facility. Having dominated in qualifying, ‘The Drake’ went an to win all 3 classes giving him yet another clean sweep. There was a lot of tough competition at the event but they were just pushed to one side as the Adam Drake steam roller continued.

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