dwbebens
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Greetings from Nashville;
I'm sending along a race report from Lyman Slack of the Florida Club 40 race group. I can't attend as many of them as I could when I lived in Florida. I'll be racing with them at their next race on Oct 13 though.
Doug Bebensee
Lyman's report:
CLUB 40 PYLON RACES – 22 SEPTEMBER 2007
Near perfect weather greeted the twenty-eight pilot who registered. Air Boss Russell Stricker had his Chief Starter Ted Barker running the Judges’ Briefing and the Pilots’ Meeting right on time.
We knew we had some first-time racers on hand, but when Ted asked for a show of hands of who was in their first race, we were all surprised when we saw at least six hands pop up! One of these was Corky Prahler, who had his lovely wife Jan spotting for him. Special thanks to Jan for helping with registration and the matrix.
We had some great racing in a lot of the heats, and sadly, we also had some not-so-great crashes. A few of these were caught on camera by Wayne Darnaby. Jim Neelands was unable to make this race, but we’re sure he’s mad at the way some flyers just don’t respect his love of the pylons! In fact, Chuck Rodel and Ted Barker both managed to test the strength of their racers against the pylons. Chuck won this one as he managed to at least take part of the #2 pylon down with him; the #1 pylon won when hit by Ted’s model. Ed Smith’s new racer in USAF livery fell to a mid-air with Larry Ralston. Russ was in a mod-air as well, but managed to limp home with minimal damage.
For the number-cruncher out there we had racers from seven clubs, including for the first time from the Hernando County R/C Club. During the twenty heats flown, there were 12 pilots winning at least one heat. Jerry Dittmar and Tom Craig had perfect scores, winning all three of their heats. Bob Holbrook qualified for the Gold Heat with 11 out of 12 points. A fly off was necessary between Chris Wieland and Herb Chutter for the final spot. Herb, in his first Club 40 outing won the fly off and advanced to the Gold.
The Gold race was one of the best we have seen, with Bob Holbrook flying a near-perfect course to win, closely followed by Herb Chutter, Tom Craig, and Jerry Dittmar.
After the awards, John Castronover and Bob Holbrook flew a five-lap demo race pitting the Gold winner against John’s experimental “E-Racer”. The speeds were very evenly matched, but Bob flew the same great course to win.
The venue for the October 13th race will move to Archer Field, home of the Flying Gators. Will Honest Ed, Jim Neelands, and John have the home field advantage? They say so! An announcement was made that as promised last year; this will be the “Oktoberfest Race”. If you get hungry early, bring some snacks as no chow will be served at the field. Instead, we will race straight through and after the Gold, all of the participants (flyers, crew, and workers) will be invited to celebrate Oktoberfest at Lyman Slack’s home, not far out of the way for anyone, where complimentary brats, bread, kraut, and brews will be served! Details later.
Here’s the link to a slide show from September’s race:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=emsniz3.cn82zu3z&Uy=lxge0k&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0&UV =428317529125_227219233503
Copy this long URL into your browser; when it opens, click View Slideshow, go Full Screen (F-11), and click View. Enjoy -- Lyman
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