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Author Topic: LA 25 Sport Race at the Beanfield Grand Prix, Dresden, June 28-29.  (Read 706 times)

Offline Paul Smith

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There is a good complete report by Stewart Henderson on the Beavers' site.

http://www.balsabeavers.ca/

Here's a photo of our race workers.  They dried out later in the day.

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Re: LA 25 Sport Race at the Beanfield Grand Prix, Dresden, June 28-29.
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2008, 06:39:41 AM »
There were eight entires,

Lenny Bourel - Flying Clown
Brad LaPointe - Buster
Jon Brzys - Flying Clown
Ed Brzys - Scientific Giant Kingpin
Wayne McDonald - Mongoose III
Paul Smith - Brodak Lightning Streak
Dan Birks - Flite Streak
Steve Stefanovich - own design Fox racer (re-engined to LA25)

I've listed only the entrants and airplanes.  The pilots and mechanics were shared and swaped as needed in a full employment mode of operation.  In addition to the above, Pat & Ivan MacKenzie, and Stewy Henderson flew and/or pitted.

After the first round-and-a-half of 3-heats (all very clean, if not dry), the qualifiers looked like this:

Steve Stefanovich with Pat  4:28.4
Wayne McDonald with Ivan 4:52
Paul Smith with Ed 4:54

In the last two races they couldn't come up with three flyers each since everybody had either run out of attempts, was sitting on a good time, or had their pilot flying for someone else.  The results included some fantastic tiimes and major bumping of the front row.

Ed Brzys with Paul  4:11
Steve and Pat 4:28.4
Dan Birks (age 13) and Lenny 4:42

These times are for 70 laps (5 miles) with one manadatory refueling stop.

The final race, 140 laps (10 miles) with 3 stops came out:

First - Steve & Pat
Second - Dan & Lenny
Third - Ed & Paul.

Despite light rain, the race went off without incident.  As mentioned by Pat, the centre got a bit slippery.  From a pit man's point of view, there was no coasting or taxiing.  The planes stuck where they hit.
Paul Smith


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