RE: 2005 F3A World Championships
There is also the school of thought that says the bias would work against Onda because Naruke is his coach he would not want to be seen to being bias therefore mark him more harshly.
As someone else said, Onda was by no means the only pilot at the champs who would of had coaching from one of the 20 judges present.
I'm finding it difficult to understand all this moaning. There seems to be a strong feeling of, "we are America and we are the best country in the world at aerobatics". You guys are very, very good at F3A, nobody is denying that, but if you had actually gone and looked at the Japs I think you would agree with the final individual and team placings. Can we not have some faith in the worlds top judges for once. Any of them reading this I'm quite sure would feel nothing but resentment at some of the comments being made.
Angus