https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wjogF57xpo Following on from part one of this five part how-to video series, this 2nd episode from Serpent chief designer and former World and European Champion Michael Salven focuses on the cleaning, measuring and assembling the perfect Centax clutch. The remaining videos in this series will show how to build the Serpent’s shock absorbers as well as setup and tweak the chassis ready for racing….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjecRkYoT6M Serpent chief designer and former World and European Champion Michael Salven is the subject of Red RC’s second series of Pro Tips. In this five part how-to, the German runs us through the preparation of his Serpent 966, this episode focusing on the drive shafts, gearbox and giving other helpful tips along the way. The remaining videos in this series will show how to build the Serpent shock absorbers, setup the perfect clutch as well as setup and tweak the chassis ready for racing. A larger version is available on YouTube by double clicking on the video….
…Championships DVD. Featuring 120 minutes of high adrenaline on road racing action from the largest RC track in the world, Lostallo in Switzerland. The best drivers in the world were in attendance, Bertin, Collari, Pietsch, Swauger, Fantini, Cristiani, if you were a 1/8th ‘great’ then you were there. Including 7 days of race coverage together with beautiful scenery and racing of the highest caliber with multi camera coverage of the entire 60 minute Main Final as well as new super slow motion cam used for some amazing footage. All in awesome widescreen. View a preview and order now at www.raywoodrcvideos.com….
…On Saturday, the track was wet, but started to dry very quickly in places. The main problem was that the complex section in front of race control was shaded by trees and would take longer to dry out. At around 4 pm, the track was fully dry and the grip started to emerge to allow at least 2 hours of productive setup work to be carried out. As usual, Mark Green seemed to have the quickest and most consistent car from the chasing pack of Branson, North, Diver, Hicklin, Wood and Hastings. Sunday was bright with no hint of rain….
Oberhausen, the heart of rc racing in Western Germany, held round two of the new NRW Challenge (NRW = German State North Rhine-Westphalia) under great conditions with blue sky and temperatures around 22 degrees Celsius on both days. Lots of spectators saw hot racing with 46 competitors and exciting fights but also partly over-motivated drivers and lots of flying cars. At the end Tobias Hepp and Sebastian Buerge did it again and – like at round one at Dueren – won the 45 minutes finals of the two nitro classes 1/8 scale and 1/10 scale (200mm). Serpent youngster Tobias Hepp…
…faultless timekeeping under the lead of Alfred Roschmann, a reproachless technical inspection and not to forget a very good catering made it a race weekend to remember for all 77 competitors and all the mechanics and supporters. The racing time for all sub-finals was 15 minutes, except the semi finals were run for 30 minutes. Beginning with the 1/32 final lots of exciting fights were seen for the top three positions to climb up into the next final. The successful drivers have been Nobuhiro Kanabe, Peter Bialowens and Thomas Schlee in the 1/32 A, Thomas Koenigsberger, Torsten Mueller and Willy…
…of the top ten drivers use GP tyres, hand made by Juergen Plan, each one used RPM (ATS), Xceed (Enetti), Matrix, UFRA and Enetti. Interesting is a look at the bodies: The brandnew Audi A5 (SMI) is used by five of the top ten drivers, three us the PF Stratus and two the Blitz Altis 2.3 A little unusual some racers are driving her cars with a one way front axle, among the top ten Eric Dankel and Joerg Baldes didn´t use the regular front differential. The results can be found and the final Sunday can be followed at www.myrcm.ch….
…with 39,324 seconds in front of Guensel with 39,691 and Kroeber with 39,915: Fourth position went to Michael Salven with 40,002 seconds for three laps with his Serpent 733. Behind Ralf Krause (Xray/40,008), René Puepke ( 40,128) was the quickest Mugen racer on sixth position. The top 10 were completed by Eric Dankel (Xray), Kai-Oliver Guttschau (Serpent), Karl-Heinz Meister (Serpent) and Christian Wimbverger (Xray). Patrick Schaefer, a non-regular driver in 1/10, achieved 15th position with his new Shepherd Velox V10. The complete results from Friday as well as the results from qualifying and the finals can be found at www.myrcm.ch….
