The Brits Win in Spanish Pylon Race!

[FleetFlyer]

I´m over the moon to announce that Desmond Hart of Hart Attack Racing has won the Silver Final race in Llieda in Spain. He did it in Cassutt G_BOMB, recently repainted in Scottish colours, with a very trick prop designed and made by Hercules Propellers.

Trevor Jarvis had a dice in the rear in his Taylor Titch, Catch 22, narrowly beating a French CP80. He showed himself to be an exceptional pilot who will clearly be a winner if he has the right plane.

The Gold Final was won by Cristian Guille in his own design, Arletty II, possibly the most beautiful man made object I´ve ever seen. He showed the Americans a clean pair of heels who came in second(Jay Jones in Quadnickel) and third(Thom Richard in Margaret June), who themselves were gracious and competitive throughout.

Today is a great day for air racing. Now I´m off to the pool for the post race beer fest and crew chief throwing(into the pool).

Try looking on youtube for Air Race F1 and or facebook to see some of the action. It was televised in Spain so there should be some good stuff out there.

Well done Des!

Here is Des passing Stan Damirov for 1st place. Stan is a terrific guy and and started nipping at Des' heels after applying a lot of speed tape to his Broussard. He finished within 5 mph of Des.

[Unusual Attitude]

Thanks for FARA's efforts in bring this to fruition.

Silver and Gold race highlights can be seen here, full 1hr TV broadcast later in the year.

Air Race F1 Lleida Catalunya, Silver and Gold Finals highlights - YouTube

Best regards

UA

[India Four Two]

Here you go:

[FleetFlyer]

I was most amused to hear that in one of the youtube sports channel videos the winner, Christian Guille's name was being pronounced 'gooley'!

He's a top bloke, but has very little English, and I can't wait to try to explain it to him.

[ETOPS]

See what you mean about Arletty II..

[FleetFlyer]

Its like an 'it girl' in that you can't capture its full beauty in a photo, you can only appreciate the thing when you see it in the flesh. The engineering is superb, its almost as simple on the inside as it is on the outside, and the lack of any pressure-recovery style shapes on it is also interesting. He even managed to squeeze a steerable tailwheel in there. It fits the builder precisely; I'm two inches taller than him and could only just fit in it with the canopy closed, and my knees were up against the spar, yet for him it was ideal. He also carved the prop himself.

I think the 3/4 view is best..


The engine is not even a race one, and he claims about 100 hp for it. With a race engine we reckon on it comfortably being able to top 300mph in level flight.

[Unusual Attitude]

I'll reserve comment about it being a stock engine as I heard the noise it was making! Awesome sight in the air however, especially when you see it go past you about 5' from your wingtip in a turn!

Regards

UA

[lostaosta]

At least you saw it go past you..........but did he see you!


For those that make comments but weren't there, Christian was awarded the White Stick at the post-race dinner.

[FleetFlyer]

The reason it didn't sound stock was that he was running it at race revs (>3500 for those that don't know), and had a four into one exhaust. He must have balanced it, but I did pin him down on whether it had been ported and he said no, and he also said he was running a stock cam.

[Unusual Attitude]

The First showing of Air Race F1 on UK TV is less than a week away! For all those that can view Motors TV on either Sky channel 447, Virgin Media on channel 545 or Freeview HD on Channel 240 the schedule is as follows:

Tuesday 05 August - 19:25hrs
Wednesday 06 August - 14:45hrs
Wednesday 06 August - 16:05hrs
Thursday 07 August - 11:05hrs
Thursday 07 August - 11:20hrs
Friday 08 August - 0:40hrs
Friday 08 August - 20:30hrs
Friday 08 August - 21:15hrs

The event will also be shown on Sky Sports in a month or so with additional channels yet to be confirmed.

The launch of full series next year, starting off with 3 races, will be announced later this year.

Regards

UA

[Unusual Attitude]

You can now watch the TV show of this new sport online..........

Part 1



Part 2



Enjoy!

Regards

UA