On September 20[SUP]th[/SUP] and 21[SUP]st[/SUP], Sacramento Area Modelers held the final 2014 SAM Warbird Series Race. There was a total of 59 entries with 12 in Bronze, 27 in Silver, and 20 in Gold. There were more registered but with unfortunate mishaps before the race, the entries dropped about 5 entries.

Congratulations to the following winners:
Bronze 1[SUP]st[/SUP] – George Reidenbach
Bronze 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] – Matt Campi
Bronze 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] - Dennis Lampson

Silver 1[SUP]st[/SUP] – Ollie Merrill
Silver 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] – Gary Prosser
Silver 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] – B.J. Healis

Gold 1[SUP]st[/SUP] – Jim Finch
Gold 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] – Allen Annett
Gold 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] – Dave Sullivan

Fast Time For Bronze – Dennis Lampson
Fast Time For Silver – Tetsuo Yamada
Fast Time for Gold – Jim Finch

The race was a success with the help of all the workers and sponsors. All the workers volunteered their own time to come help put on the race for all the pilots. If you see the people that helped, please shake their hand and say Thank You!!!!! The races would not get off the ground without them!!!! I like to give special Thanks to Jim Smith (Skids) for all the help prior and day(s) of the race. He has been a huge help to get the race going and to be a success. Bottom line is that it took a group effort to make it a very successful and fun race.

I had a lot of help from Sponsors. Special Thanks our huge sponsors – YS Engines, APC Props, JR America Radios, Gold Country Ace Hardware and Hobbys, and B.J. Healis. Also Special Thanks to all of our other sponsors - RC Country, Great Planes, Servo City, World Models, RTL Fasteners, BSI Adhesives, RC-Lights, Sig MFG, Tree Topper Tree Service, Jim Smith, Peg Sweeny, Mike Smith, and Sergio Varo. Please remember to support our sponsors as they support us!!!!

We had 3 heats on Saturday and 2 heats and mains on Sunday. The weather was awesome and lots of great racing with very low percentage of loss planes. We had a great lunch time show put on by Chip Hyde and Shawn Berkheimer, Thank You to the both of you for showing us that awesome flying!!! There were pilots from all over like Nevada, Oregon, and all over California. There also was a pilot (Marty Flood) that came from Utah and 1 pilot flew in from Japan (Tetsuo Yamada). Thanks to all the pilots that came and entered because if it was not for you, there would be no races.

This two day race is getting bigger and bigger each year and looking forward to the future to see what the Trashman & YS Classic Warbird Race can bring.

You can go to our website (www.sacramento-rc-flyers.org) to see all the results for this race and the final year results. If you are interested in seeing pictures of the races, please go to Holly Shanks website as she was very nice to come out and take pictures for us. Check out her website at http://shanksphoto.smugmug.com/. Thanks Holly!!!!!

Thanks everyone for everything,
JR