The championship went to the very last race seeing 14 year old Kyle Branson win from his Serpent team mate Mark Green, both using 720-08 cars
The 8th round of the British 1/10th scale 200mm Nationals were held recently at the Cotswold track where experience and youth came head to head for title honours. In the end it was youth that took the upper hand as 14-year-old Serpent Driver Development member Kyle Branson took the win and the championship title from Serpent factory driver Mark Green.
Serpent Driver Development team member Kyle Branson notched yet another great win in the BRCA British 1:10 200mm National Championship as he took his 720 '08 to victory in Round 6 at Snetterton over the weekend.
Mark Green gave Team Serpent UK their third win of the season in the British 1:10 200mm Nationals when he took his Mega powered 720 '08 to victory in Round 4 at Snetterton over the weekend.
Serpent Driver Development programme member Kyle Branson broke into the big time over the weekend when he took his first ever British National Championship win. Racing in the third round of the 1:10 200mm championship at Mendip the 14-year-old ace took his Serpent 720 to a 2-lap winning margin.
Young German racer Tobias Hepp has been announced as the latest emerging young talent to be signed up to the Serpent Driver Development program which aims to assist up and coming racers in their quest to reach the highest levels of the sport.
14-year-old Tobias has been racing for 5 years and has made a big impression in his home country. Winning his first major rc championship title in 2004 he has for the past two seasons been the German 1:8 National Junior Champion.
Serpent British Champions Richard Hicklin and Mark Green gave the 960 '07 a great to finish to the BRCA National Championship with the pair claiming 1-2 in the eleventh & final round at Brookland over the weekend.
Outgoing champion Hicklin qualified fifth with new 1:8 Champion Green the Top Qualifier but in the final Hicklin just pipped the pole sitter to take his second win of the season.
Finishing second Green, who wrapped up the title at the previous round with a win, recorded his 8th podium finish of the season. Tim Wood, who qualified P2, and Kyle Branson also made the A Final of the...
Young talent Kyle Branson secured his third podium finish of the 2007 British 1:10 National Championship recently when he steered his Mega powered 720 to third in penultimate round of the series at Wrexham.
Making his first visit to the Welsh circuit, Kyle set the fastest lap time of the event in the heats to qualify 3rd for the A Final. Rain made the 30-minute encounter tricky but the Serpent Driver Development team member drove a superb race to maintain third finishing less than a second behind second place at the finish line.
Currently third in the standings, Kyle will be hoping to add...
Kyle Branson, a member of Serpent's Driver Development program, showed why he is one of the UK's most promising up and coming r/c racing talents when he took his second podium finish of the season on Sunday.
Serpent Driver Development member Kyle Branson was again in top form for the latest round of the BRCA 1:10 British National Championship making the A Final for the 5th time this season.
Racing at the Brookland track in the 5th Round of the Championship, the 13-year-old qualified 4th fastest of the 65 entries missing the TQ time by just 4 seconds.