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October 11, 2011

Bruno Coelho wins 2011 Portugal Cup

Last weekend the 2011 Portugal Cup was held at the new track at Evora and Cesar Coelho sent us this report. Evora is a very old town at Alentejo and the local club decided to build a new track which started last year and this year they decided to have the Portugal Cup 2011 and the organization, track and facilities couldn’t be better. On Saturday we had to finish breaking-in and engine and only on the last practice can we check the chassis setup and the first feeling it was very positive.

Continue reading the report here

October 11, 2011

Serpent ‘Square’ pistons for Cobra S811

New for the Serpent Cobra S811 buggy are these ‘square’ pistons. Following extensive testing they have concluded that in order to fine tune your S811 buggy to a multitude of racing conditions you should use these new 8 hole pistons to balance compression and rebound dampening. They will help improve your cars handling in conditions where the bumps are above the racing surface. The shock will be quicker to rebound, putting your tires on the ground more often improving lap times. The pistons are CNC machined from delrin, for super smooth and true shape.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 11, 2011

Robert Raphael clinches Belgian 1/8th BL title

Last weekend was the final round of the Belgian Buggy 1/8 Brushless Championship held at the BRTC club of Bauff. Due to heavy rain the race was stopped and the final results were taken from qualification. This gave the win to JP Voumard (Tekno RC MP9/Tecmotor) ahead of 2nd place David Nopenaire (Losi/Tekin) with HongNor team driver Raphael Robert (Nexx 8/Castle Creation) in 3rd. This result was enough to give the National title to Robert Raphael, with Loïc Voumard taking 2nd spot while David Nopenaire rounded out the series top 3. Robert Raphael also took the 1/8th scale gas offroad title driving a Hong Nor X3 Sabre.

Thanks to JP Voumard for the report.

October 11, 2011

Joe Kerry takes British title with last round victory

The last BRCA 1/10th 200mm national race of the championship was at the Mendip circuit last weekend with the title still up for grabs. Saturday’s practice was run under dry and sunny conditions with championship contenders Joe Kerry and Adam Catchpole looking quick all day. Sunday morning turned out to be very windy, cold and damp. This made qualifying quite difficult for some of the top drivers but the track eventually dried out for the final qualifier and everyone was able to set a decent time. Alex Thurston took FTD just in front of Joe Kerry with Adam Catchpole qualifying in 6th position. In the final Joe took the lead on the very first lap and began to race away from the rest of the field. At the end of the 30 minute final Joe was the winner after holding off the challenge of Mark Green towards the end of the race. This final result makes Joe Kerry the 2011 British 200mm National Champion. Adam Catchpole finished runner up overall with Alex Thurston taking third overall.

Thanks to Joe Kerry for the report.

October 11, 2011

Chili Lim wins 2011 Team C cup

The 2011 Team C cup was held in Borneo Limbang, Sarawak last weekend and was a great success attracting racers from all around Malaysia, Brunei, Hong Kong and Taiwan, with around 80 racers in total participating. Qualifying was taken from only 1 qualifying round due to the weather conditions, rain started to pour down in late afternoon. Serpent racer Chili Lim was out of luck in his heat, despite being one of the fastest on the track, his only run being ruined by by a loose ball joint causing him to retire after the 3rd lap meaning he would end up 2nd from last. The event ran a Christmas tree format so Chili will need to bumps up from the lowest final and after racing for 105 minutes Chili manage to book himself a place in the final in 2nd position. In the 1 hour main final Chili managed to gain the lead in the early stages and after that started slowly pulling away from the rest of the pack. He would win by 2 laps from Alvin Lam in 2nd and Tommy 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 11, 2011

QTEQ Power Banana 4mm banana plugs

QTEQ have released their Power Banana ultra low resistance 4mm banana plugs for electrical RC car batteries. This solid multi-contact banana plug combines the advantages of both solid and multilam type bananas plugs. The plug consists of 6 contacts of resilient copper alloy with each contact featuring two contact points. The twelve contact points, three times more than those of existing solid type banana plugs, reduce contact resistance to one third. A low head type, only 2mm, also features a specially formed groove that reduces excessive solder volume which interferes with the path of electrical current.

Source: QTEQ [multiverse.jp]

October 11, 2011

Henriksen wins Danish 1/8th Nationals

The last round of the Danish 1/8th scale nationals was run at ODRC club in Odense. The track is small and has no space for error’s so it’s technically challenging to drive 1/8 on this track and it’s normally very slippery too. There was some rain overnight and it actually cleaned the track so the grip was better on Sunday. After 5 rounds Shepherd driver Henrik Christensen was leading with only 2 points, and the Danish point system also gives points for TQ, so when fellow Shepherd-Novarossi racer Jon Pedersen took the TQ on Saturday there was only one point between 1st and 2nd place. He took the pole-position in front of Henrik Christensen and Mikael Skals in third position.

Continue reading the report here

October 11, 2011

Giannis Sotiropoulos claims Greek 200mm title

Giannis Sotiropoulos has taken yet another victory in Greece with his Serpent 733 TE, this time at the last round of the Greek championship. Taking the win by over a lap from second, Giannis had carried forward his qualifying pace, where he was able to claim pole position, into the main final and could lead the race from beginning to end. With this victory Giannis Sotiropoulos was able to secure the 2011 Greek 1/10 nitro on-road National title.

Image: RC World [rc-world.gr]