Vincent, feast or famine; Vincent, home to the dustiest, hottest and sometimes fastest F3F venue in Southern California didn't disappoint this Saturday.
20 pilots, 10 rounds plus a zero round, 183 rounds flown, fastest time of 34.49 by Dave Reese, 8 personal bests (nearly half the field!), great hustle by the troops, fantastic vibe in the pits, a relatively quiet peanut gallery (for the CD), everyone made it back up the hill, two complete wrecks (sorry Rey and Warren), and scattered minor landing induced breakages (but mild for vincent's of the past). I think it was GREAT! The scoreboard changed after every round. When you go to vegas, this is what you get. A smoking 30 something round, then a 60 something to follow. You never know, but it keeps you coming back for more. Memorable moments for me, Alex's first sub 40 round, and doing it with style with a 36.78, 19 rounds in the 30's, and seeing so many people after I worried about so many people. We still cranked out 10 rounds AND landed after every flight! Thank you to everyone for making that happen. By round two, everyone was ready to go with tranny's on, planes ballasted and ready to launch. By round six, people figured out they can use that 60 second launch window to their advantage. Today we had special prizes for the three fastest times: Dave Reese 34.49, Dan Field 35.45, and Alex Neigher 36.78. Congrats! Congratulations go to Joe Wurts for fending off, just barely, Dave Reese and myself to take the win. It was very close racing, and no one could look at the scoresheet and know who won. It was all over the board. Joe was feast or famine but had three 30sec rounds, Dave had two 1000 point rounds, but also had some 50+ sec rounds to contend with. I never felt like it was working all day, but had most of my rounds in the 40's, and that kept me just barely in front of Bob Breux who had the same strategy. (actually, I think the strategy finds you at Vincent). Gary Legerton spent more time in the pit area fixing landing damage than flying, but managed a top 5, just barely in front of Tom Copp by 10pts! Then Tom nudged Dan Field by 1 hundredth of a second! Wow! 1 7294.39 Joe Wurts 2 7199.87 Dave Reese 3 6933.30 Bob Bingham 4 6888.77 Bob Breux 5 6780.80 Gary Legerton 6 6770.27 Tom Copp 7 6770.26 Dan Field 8 6718.87 Kyle Paulson 9 6654.50 Dave Bates 10 6647.66 Bill Delhagen 11 6617.67 Tim Neja 12 6540.42 Alex Neigher 13 6517.79 Alexei Kisselev 14 6503.32 Jay Waitley 15 6470.50 Phat Vu 16 6428.40 Warren Day 17 5487.86 Joe Zepeda 18 5471.45 Mike Sheridan 19 3879.11 John Erickson 20 739.24 Rey Harju. I need one more set of eyes to review my work before I post the spreadsheet. We got in last night at 11:30pm, so sorry for the delay in posting. Spreadsheet will be on http://www.socalsloperacing.com/ Bob Bingham RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
