Alphen aan den Rijn Sunday August 14 2011 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com
Pictures; courtesy Jeroen Kroon
“Don’t fool around on the last day ” , Zbigniew must have thought, so he straight away won the last day in 18 m. class. So both “mates”, on top for a while ended, also on top in the end , from these by great and less good weather flown EGC comps.
Karol wins and Zbigniew is 2 so 2 Polish pilots on top in ASG 29. Good for Poland! On spot 3 UK pilot Russell Cheetham in JS1.
In 15 m. Henrik Breidahl was the best on this last day 10 and I am pleased to see he still flies SO well.
He settles himself between the 3 French and is number 2 OVERALL , coming from 5th place, good on him. The French are 1-2-4. Great guys!The points….. look at this, real exciting;
1. Christophe Ruch with 7323 points THE winner, the champion!
2. Henrik Breidahl with 7175 points AND
2. Denis Geurin ALSO with 7175 points!!!!
4. Louis Bouderlique with 7173 points ONLY 2 less!!!!!
In open class Pete Harvey won the day and he shows that he still is a great pilot, but …not the winner of this ECG. Markus Frank our German pilot was after 9 days, this time the best; and ….he was on top for the last 4 days!!! A great champion.
On the last day they all had to fly. Short 2 hour AAT’s for some still TOO long, as Peter from Holland had to use his engine after 40 km. OUCH that hurts !!!!!. But he only dropped 2 places overall !
With a base of 650 the open class pilots started after a few delays. In the end the day turned out not too bad and most pilots finished. All in time to celebrate the final day of these comps.
Good to have had a flyable last day.
In the top 10 in each class everybody could have been the winner. One has more luck then the other or things fall better in place. Anyhow great comps and well deserved champions and runner up’s.
A pity from the broken gliders , what can you do. Atleat the mix of weather with very good to just soarable showed the talents of the pilots. I enjoyed it, from home!
Uvalde Texas, Pre worlds; Mac from Japan ended on spot 1 after 6 days of flying in 15 m. class. He never won a day but was pretty consistant and ready for next year for the “real thing”.
In 18 m. it is Bruce Taylor who won 4 out of 5 days! Gary Ittner was a good runner up BUT about 700 points less good!!!
In the open class Nationals;Ron Tabery is on top aftrert 5 days.
Thought it was over but they just continue! Sorry about that!
1.30 h. and 2 hours [club] AAT for the young ones! Yesterday they had a tiny bit better weather in Musbach so a new window gave new energy for the pilots. In the end the weather was allright,meaning not so many outlandings and certainlygood for the winner in standard; USA pilot Devin Bargannier who managed to fly 129 km.
In club class our young Danish friend Mads won again; 167 km. Good on him!!!He won 2 marginal days in a row! Hope he is good in nice-speedy-weather-flying as well, as that’s what is expected .
Short message this time due to guests and more to come, but you had a nice long one lasdt Friday. Enjoy your week see you most prtobably on Friday August 19. When I have time I put some picturtes on later.
Cheers Ritz