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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Rat Racing and Team Racing => Topic started by: Paul Smith on July 01, 2008, 12:17:42 PM
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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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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.