60" F3F and 60" EPP pylon racing

60" F3F

Saturday morning bright and early, plenty of wind on the VR slope. After an hour of sports flying and test flights everyone was ready to race. Shane took an early lead by winning the first 6 rounds then both Steve Clutterbuck and Steve Alford started to get to grips with thier models and pulled a couple of great times but Shanes early domination couldnt be caught. See the full results below.

Final results

1 8962.81 Shane Biddlecombe
2 8241.43 Steve Clutterbuck
3 8016.79 Steve Alford
4 7756.77 Mike Young
5 7353.87 Dave Loomes
6 7159.36 Dave Rumble
7 6299.45 John Davies
8 6210.18 Tim Prevett
9 5911.58 Mark B'n'D

spreadsheet of full results

60" EPP pylon

After the F3F the coarse was shortened to 80m for a spot of friendly 60" EPP pylon racing. Three up at time made for some interesting racing and some very close racing at times. A few heat were flown with Dave Rumble topping the tree then a knockout which saw Dave Loomes take pole position with the calculations of the two scores Dave Rumble just pipped Dave Loomes by 2 points. Many thanks to Steve Clutterbuck for organising the pylon racing.

Results after the heats

Dave Rumble 50
Mike Young 47
Dave Loomes 47
John Davies 46
Shane Biddlecombe 46
Mark S 46
Steve Alford 45
Tim Prevett 45
Steve Clutterbuck 45

Results for the knockout

Dave Loomes 50
Dave Rumble 49
Steve Alford 48
Mike Young 47
John Davies 46
Tim Prevett 45
Shane Biddlecombe 44
Mark S 43
Steve Clutterbuck 42

Overall Results

Dave Rumble 99
Dave Loomes 97
Mike Young 94
Steve Alford 93
John Davies 92
Shane Biddlecombe 90
Tim Prevett 90
Mark S 89
Steve Clutterbuck 86

Combat

Everyone arrived by 9:30 and was welcomed by a 50mph plus winds on the VR slope. The coarse was set up, a quick briefing and things were on the go. Two groups of 7 flew 4 rounds a piece. With the high winds the planes were covering a lot of ground and keeping the planes grouped was proving differcult, Dave Loomes took a wind reading between rounds and recorded a constant 70mph, gusting to 86mph in the compression. The wind dropped slightly for a couple of the later rounds and then the hits and kill started to come. The final "best of the best" round was flown with 10 pilots and with the increased number of planes in the air the hits and kills came thick and fast. The two runners up were first time SWSA combatter Craig Hancock and Matt Stubbs (who was also a runner up last time) and taking pole position and a nice new Duck kit was Shane Biddlecombe, well done Shane for doing the double, winning the 60" F3F and combat all in one weekend.

Combat scores after 4 rounds

Mike Young 18
Shane Biddlecombe 11
Rob Wentworth 22
Rob Holgate 31
Alan Shears 14
Mark S 1
Darren Bourchier 2
David Loomes 8
Kieth Benham 24
Clive Jones 26
Craig Hancock 19
Tony Frost 15
Matt Stubbs 19
Andy Gregory 7

Scores for the best 10 pilots during the final

Mike Young 7
Shane Biddlecombe 12
Rob Wentworth 3
Rob Holgate 2
Alan Shears 0
Kieth Benham 2
Clive Jones 7
Craig Hancock 8
Tony Frost 6
Matt Stubbs 8

Top 3 positions

1st Shane Biddlecombe
2nd Matt Stubbs
2nd Craig Hancock