SCSR Race Results - Pt. Fermin 5/11/02

 Updated 05/15/02

 

F3F 2002 - Pt. Fermin 5-11-02 Results
Dateline:  5-11-02                                                           

 Greeting Fellow Slope Racers!

 Entertainment included Joe crossing the 4-lane road with the Icon at
6 ft altitude, ending with a dork landing on the grass 6 ft short of
the flight line, your humble servant hitting a palm tree on a looong final
approach to what is euphemistically called  "the landing area", and
Mike launching into a very low altitude wing-over.   Won't even
mention the launcher who threw the plane into the pilot....

Great day in spite of the above antics.  Best part is that no one
bitched about not getting air.  Did not see one thermal all afternoon.
- Bill DelHagen, CD

12 Rounds with 2 Throw outs

Fastest Time: 40.85 - Joe Wurts
Rank Name FAI Score  
1 Tom Copp 9945
2 Joe Wurts 9898
3 Dan Field 9390
4 Steve Drake 9008
5 Bill DelHagen 9006
6 Matt Blackman 8707
7 Mike Sheridan 8681
8 Matt Strober 8554
9 Steve Galle 2548

 

It was good to fly on the coast. All F3F races should be held on coastal sites. This should be a law. Just imagine if the VRQ were held at a place like Pt. Fermin (but with a landing area) I didn’t see the raw scores on the spreadsheet but I can tell you that every single turn counted. You couldn’t afford to mess up at all. The rounds between Joe and myself were very close all day; I would guess within 1.5 seconds in most rounds. It’s a game of inches. I think I threw out a 43.xx to Joe’s 40.xx. for my worst round.

See you all this weekend at Torrey for the 4th running of the IF3F (S vs. N).

Tom Copp

I was impressed by the overall consistency at Pt. Fermin.  I'm voting
that we hold all of our future races there!  It was really cool to look at
the scores, and see exactly the results of flying errors.  Toms score
is indicative of an amazing consistency.  Think of it, he dropped about
50 points total in ten scored rounds.  And, somebody else won four
of those rounds.  That means that he lost an average of about 12
points on each of those four rounds (his losing margin averaged about
a half second for these  rounds).  I'm twice as bad, my losing
margin averaged one second, which I'm darn proud of!

Thanks to Bill for putting it on.  Thanks to the locals for tolerating us
on "their" hill.  I learned a lot during the day.  I was gratified to see
how consistent the hill was, there were just a few seconds of variation
in the energy on the hill, and the cycles did not seem to even last for
a full flight.

- Joe Wurts