Back on August 17th to 18th, the VMPRA went off to the home of Victorian pylon racing, Cohuna, for our annual pilgrimage. Unfortunately, the weather was similar to Bendigo, where running of races on Saturday was limited, only flying six rounds of F3T before having to call it a day. We had better weather on Sunday, so we could run six rounds of F3D and then Q500 to complete the race weekend.
The great thing about being at Cohuna is the great bunch of helpers there to man the pylons. The number one pylon cage was full, and we also had helpers on two and three, which is fantastic and frees up competitors to be able to concentrate on racing.
Unfortunately, we had some issues with running the timing system, which resulted in confusion about the scores at the end of the weekend. Since then, a few errors have been corrected and the scores, as published on the website, are now correct and the championship standings have been updated accordingly.
At the end of the weekend, we had a birthday cake for Gary Whitbourn and Gary Davison, who both had significant birthdays on either side of the weekend. Thanks to Wendy and Anthony for organizing that.
Our next event is from September 14th to 15th, which will be the state championships at Warrnambool, where we will also be holding the team trials for the F3D and F3E world championships.
So we hope to have some interstate competitors as well as good numbers from Victoria there, which always adds another level of interest to the weekend.
So it should be a great weekend and fingers crossed for better weather this time. It’ll be great to see you all there.
Results
These are the placing for this race weekend plus the fastest time. For all the results, see the “Result” button below.
Class – FA1
Places:
1st Brian Steele
2nd Barry Murphy
3rd Andrew Davies
Fastest Time (Red Box): 66.55 Rick Townsend.
No. of competitors: 5
Class – F3T
Places:
1st Brian Steele
2nd Andrew Davies
3rd Jim Orenshaw
Fastest Time (Red Box): 66.19 Andrew Davies.
No. of competitors: 8
Class – Q500
Places:
1st John Schmidli
2nd Jim Orenshaw
3rd Eddie Rich
Fastest Time (Red Box): 96.05 John Schmidli
No. of competitors: 7
Season Championship
FA1
No change in the top 3 placings with only 2 points separating Andrew and Brian.
1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Tom Wetherill
F3T
Brian Steele and Andrew Davies are sitting at the top on equal points and only divided by Brian having a slightly better average race time over the championship.
1st – Brian Steele
2nd – Andrew Davies
3rd – Jim Orenshaw
Q500
No change in the top 3 placings for Quickie also
1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – John Schmidli
3rd – Eddie Rich
Next Race Event – State Championship & F3D/F3E WC Team Trial Warrnambool 14th – 15th September.
Report – John Schmidli.
Photos – John Schmidli
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