Well fellow race fans, I am happy to report another great race at Torrey is in the books. We had 29 racers come out and test their skills amongst the best in the US. Paul Naton traveled the furthest from Pennsylvania, With Ron Vann and Tim Bigley coming in from the San Francisco bay area, as well as Joel Cagnon from Santa Barbara. We were joined by a few new F3F pilots Joe Rodrigues of TD fame, TPG president Parvis Kamiab, TPG raffle coordinator Alan 'Moose' Butler, local Mark Canfield, and perhaps Robert Lopez (not positive it was his first time). We held our Pilots meeting in the glider port's office at 9:00 am on Saturday, and got round zero underway around 11:00 am. Conditions were consistently building, and by round 1 our last pilot in the roster Tom Copp of F3X.com fame threw down a blistering 40.80 second run. Time would later prove that to be the fast time of the contest. For a 29 pilot event, things were moving very quickly, finishing each round in less than an hour. We finished things up around 5:00pm, finishing 6 rounds (0-5). Saturday evening brought some light showers and clearing winds for Sunday. Flyable at sunrise, we had great air for our 10:15 am start. We finished our last round around 3:45 pm and gathered for awards presentation. We all knew who were going to stand at the podium. Tim Bigley was the consistent competitor, flying smoothly all weekend. Making no mistakes was good enough to earn him a 3rd place podium spot. Tom Copp seemed to have things all wrapped up after the absolute clinic he put on Saturday, but Kyle was coming on strong on Sunday. It was anyone's guess. Kyle ended up sneaking away with the victory, by a mere .041% Great job Tom and Kyle. I learned allot from your guys's performance.
So here are the scores, 1 P Kyle 9573.53 2 Copp 9569.65 3 Bigley 9424.06 4 Smith 9339.89 5 Cone 9291.80 6 L G 9114.21 7 Field 9089.37 8 Klein 8940.82 9 Paulson,Kyler 8887.21 10 Reel 8813.98 11 Vann 8756.63 12 Neja 8719.93 13 DelHagen 8624.05 14 Meitzer 8515.08 15 Monte 8458.07 16 Rackliffe 8430.82 17 B Bob 8414.10 18 Bates 8329.00 19 Harju 8216.11 20 Liberatore 8203.70 21 Jolly 8088.02 22 Seaman 7892.82 23 Cagnon 7823.61 24 Rodriguez 7718.65 25 C M 7344.03 26 B A 5468.89 27 N P 4185.53 28 Lopez 3817.36 29 Kamiab 2276.59 I am currently writing an article for RCSD, please send me your photos for addition to the article. -- David Klein Graduate Research Student Department of Structural Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering University of California San Diego
