Sunday, 18 September 2011

Welsh Open update


Two days gone and we have three rounds completed and two thirds of round four done.  To achieve that with all the rain we've had has been quite a challenge.

We're in the car park of the Ice Cream Slope at the moment waiting for the rain to clear. When it does we'll finish the last third of round four and sprint through as many others as is possible.
It's been an interesting couple of days so far.  The standard of piloting is really good so when the good air comes along there's always someone on the sticks that can use it.
Fastest time so far is a 31.xx, with lots and lots of 35 to 39 second times.  The conditions have been variable but not ultra variable, except for a bizarre patch of around 10 pilots where the wind dropped to 3ms from 14ms, with the resultant impact on times. Myself and Joel were caught up in that, which effectively uses our discard.  Poor Dag is also without a discard after a launching incident, so it's very tight at the top with no room for error!


1
Dag Skoglund
2886.73
2
Joel West
2839.54
3
Gerardo Plaza
2798.65
4
Kevin Newton
2791.82
5
Alvaro Silgado
2788.66
6
Jose Luis Alvarez
2757.46
7
Simon Thornton
2722.90
8
Mike Evans
2721.56
9
Adam Richardson
2714.38
10
Espen Torp
2712.17
11
Greg Dakin
2710.99
12
Bjorn Tore Hagen
2709.48
13
William Jul Ringkjob
2707.47
14
Martin Newnham
2706.09
15
Mark Redsell
2698.44
16
John Phillips
2696.17
17
Keith Wood
2690.80
18
Iñigo Herrera Millan
2677.46
19
Richard Bago
2667.91
20
Iñaki Elizondo
2663.22
21
Stephan Bertschi
2633.53
22
Peter Gunning
2562.79
23
Jorgen Wake Stensen
2558.46
24
John Bennett
2542.16
25
Angel Lopez
2537.10
26
Carles Aymat
2522.94
27
Alfredo Arjona Garcia
2518.02
28
C M Cheng
2500.80
29
Kjell Sture Johansen
2498.43
30
Jon Edison
2497.74
31
Frank Hulton
2494.61
32
Fernando Moro
2477.79
33
Mark Abbotts
2453.47
34
Jesus Herrera
2447.81
35
Ian Mason
2445.59
36
Jason Bioletti
2437.85
37
Mike McCracken
2409.91
38
Marcelino Punal
2406.24
39
Dave Rumble
2404.58
40
George Young
2403.38
41
Miguel Gutierrez Lecue
2401.53
42
Mick Walsh
2365.72
43
Scott Ravenscroft
2332.04
44
Mike Shellim
2320.09
45
Iain Medley-Rose
2306.25
46
Andrzej Tabero
2279.40
47
Wing Wong
2263.71
48
John Trebble
2225.86
49
Vic Eldridge
2212.62
50
Tony Robertson
2172.19