WARRNAMBOOL Event rescheduled – May 4-5
Event Report – Munro Feb, 2019
Below are the results and championship standings for the Munro/VMPRA Trophy event which had been re-scheduled from what was to have been the Camperdown race from earlier in the year.
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Results
Class – FA1
Places:
1st Beau Murphy
2nd Leigh Hocken
3rd Barry Murphy
Fastest Time: 56.93 Leigh Hocken
No. of competitors: 5
Class – F3T
Places:
1st Beau Murphy
2nd Andrew Davies
3rd Barry Murphy
Fastest Time: Non-compliant race. Not all pylons were observed therefore fastest time will not be recorded.
No. of competitors: 10
Class – Q500
Places:
1st Mick Kellet
2nd Jim Orenshaw
3rd Allan Swift
Fastest Time: 95.58 John Schmidli
No. of competitors: 9
Season Championship
No change for the lead position but both Leigh Hocken and Beau Murphy moved up into 2nd and 3rd positions respectively displacing Andrew Davies down into 4th position.
1st – Daniel Arapakis
2nd – Leigh Hocken
3rd – Beau Murphy
F400/F3T
No change for 1st and 2nd positions, but Barry Murphy has popped up fro 5th to 3rd position. displacing Garry Davidson.
1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Jim Orenshaw
3rd – Barry Murphy
No change for the top 3 positions.
1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – Allan Swift
3rd – John Schmidli
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Next Race
Warrnambool February 30-31, 2019
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Report – John Schmidli
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Event Report – Warrnambool Dec, 2018
Below are the results and championship standings for the last event for 2018 which was held at Warrnambool. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend and therefore there are no photos or report.
Results
Class – FA1
Places:
1st Daniel Arapakis
2nd Leigh Hocken
3rd Glenn Matthews
Fastest Time: 58.32
No. of competitors: 8
Class – F3T (For the first time for the VMPRA)
Places:
1st Andrew Davies
2nd Brian Steele
3rd Jim Orenshaw
Fastest Time: 68.19
No. of competitors: 7
Class – Q500
Places:
1st Jim Orenshaw
2nd Allan Swift
3rd Mike Kellet
Fastest Time: 96.49
No. of competitors: 4
Season Championship
1st – Daniel Arapakis
2nd – Andrew Davies
3rd – Leigh Hocken
F400/F3T
This season championship will be a combination of F400 & F3T. As of the November 2018 Munro event, all future races will be to the F3T rules.
1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Jim Orenshaw
3rd – Gary Davidson
1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – Allan Swift
3rd – John Schmidli
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Next Race
Camperdown February 2-3, 2019
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Event Report – Munro November 2018
Here are the results from the event run on November 10-11, 2018 at Barry Murphy’s Munro pylon racing field.
The last Formula 400 race for the VMPRA
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Results
Class – FA1
Places:
1st Beau Murphy
2nd Daniel Arapakis
3rd Glenn Matthews
Fastest Time: 57.93
No. of competitors: 6
Class – F400 (For the last time ever)
Places:
1st Beau Murphy
2nd Barry Murphy
3rd Glenn Matthews
Fastest Time: 61.82
No. of competitors: 9
Class – Q500
Places:
1st David Chippindall
2nd Jim Orenshaw
3rd Allan Swift
Fastest Time: 91.91 – Not recorded (no one on pylon #3).
No. of competitors: 8
Season Championship
Andrew Davies remains at the top position but Beau Murphy moved from 5th to 2nd position and Daniel Arapakis moved from 4th to 3rd.
1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Beau Murphy
3rd – Daniel Arapakis
F400/F3T
This season championship will be a combination of F400 & F3T. As of the November Munro event, all future races will be to the F3T rules.
1st – Beau Murphy
2nd – Barry Murphy
3rd – Glenn Matthews
The top 2 positions swapped with Jim Orenshaw now leading.
1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – John Schmidli
3rd – Allan Swift
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Next Race
Warnambool December 8-9, 2018
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Results and Photos – John Schmidli
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Event Report – Crib Point Oct 2018
A great day was had by all at WPMAC at Crib Point back on October 14. Although numbers were a little down from usual due to some clashes, we had some fantastic weather, exciting racing and generously hosted by this great club.
Except for this excellent group shot taken by Andrew Arapakis, unfortunately there are no more photos of this event due to a setting error on the camera. Oops….. Sorry everybody!
Results
Class – Q500
Places:
1st Jim Orenshaw
2nd Tom Wetherill
3rd John Schmidli
Fastest Time: 89.72 – Tom Wetherill
Note: Not all pylon judging positions were officiated. Fastest times wont be recorded (unfortunately).
No. of competitors: 13
Results
Class – Sports
Places:
1st Tom Wetherill
2nd Cameron Sexton
3rd George Angelov
Season Championship
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No change at the top 3 positions but Jim has closed in on top position with only 1 point in it.
1st – John Schmidli
2nd – Jim Orenshaw
3rd – Allan Swift
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Next Race
Munro on November 10-11.
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Event Report – John Schmidli
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Cohuna – 2018 VMAA State Championships
It’s was great going back to the home of pylon racing in Victoria, 41 years from the first pylon event at this great club. We held the VMAA State Championship on this weekend which included the 2nd F3D Australian Team Trial for next years World Championships in Queensland, Australia.
The Cohuna club always provides a full compliment of helps which is absolutely necessary for running the team trials on the 10 lap course. What a great job all the helpers did. Thanks to the Cohuna Club.
We started with 2 rounds of Q500 after a little delay getting the timing system sorted. Once the Q500 races finished, it was into the half an hour of flight testing for the F3D and then 5 rounds were run in nice sunny and warm conditions. later in the day, F400 ran 3 rounds before running out of time.
Sunday started with the remaining 3 rounds of F3D followed by Q500 and the F400 after lunch.
The event was a great success with Andrew Arapakis and Andrew Davies CDing for the weekend plus Allan Swift running the timing systems with help from Daniel Arapakis. Great job everybody
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Results
Class – FA1
Places:
1st Leigh Hocken
2nd Beau Murphy
3rd Ranjit Phelan
Fastest Time: 55.90 – Leigh Hocken
No. of competitors: 10
10 Lap Course
Results
Class – F400
This was a clean sweep from Team Jacobsen.
Places:
1st Shaun Jacobsen
2nd Jarrod Jacobsen
3rd Tom Jacobsen
Fastest Time: 63.66 – Shaun Jacobsen
No. of competitors: 8
10 Lap Course
Class – Q500
This was a smaller field than usual but it was great having Robin Gray back flying pylon.
Places:
1st Jim Orenshaw
2nd John Schmidli
3rd Allan Swift
Fastest Time: 90.13 – Jim Orenshaw
No. of competitors: 4
10 Lap Course
Season Championship
This was only the second event for this new championship season. Being an VMAA Championships and a F3D team selection trial, it was a 10 lap course with a good amount of cut judges. We done Cohuna club!
Leigh Hocken jumps up from 8th to 2nd position after this convincing win.
1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Leigh Hocken
3rd – Barry Murphy
1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Jim Orenshaw
3rd – Gary Davidson
1st – John Schmidli
2nd – Jim Orenshaw
3rd – Allan Swift
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Next Race
The very next race is at the Westernport Club where there’ll be a Sports & Q500 race on Oct 14. There is always a great turn out at this event and a heap of fun had.
The next 2 day/3 class event is being held on Nov 10-11 at Munro.
There have been quite a few changes to the calendar of late so make sure you have them all in your diary so as to not miss out.
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Event Report and Photos – John Schmidli
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Event Report – Bendigo 2018
Back on August 4th-5th, the VMPRA headed to Bendigo to go racing. We ended up with better numbers than we first thought would be in attendance and the weather was quite good. Thanks to the Bendigo Club for hosting this event and for providing a field that was in such great condition.
Results
It was unfortunate that pylon #2 was not manned all weekend so no fastest time will be recorded for this event.
Class – FA1
Places:
1st Daniel Arapakis
2nd Andrew Davies
3rd Barry Murphy
No. of competitors: 9
Results
Class – F400
Places:
1st Jim Orenshaw
2nd Andrew Davies
3rd Brian Steele
No. of competitors: 6
Class – Q500
Places:
1st Tom Allen
2nd Tom Wetherill
3rd John Schmidli
No. of competitors: 7
Season Championship
This is the start of the new 2018-2019 Championship Season after last season’s trophies were presented at the AGM at Bendigo.
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Next Race
The next event is the VIC State Championships being held at Cohuna on September 8th – 9th. This will also be a selection event for the 2019 F3D world championships Australian team.
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Event Report and Photos – John Schmidli
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Fastest Times – Season 2017-2018
At the end of each season, We announce the fastest times recorded for the season on our usual 10.5 Lap Course. Only weekends where cut judges are post on all pylon positions are included.
Fastest Times – 2017 – 2018
Event Report – AMPRA – Munro June 2018
Back on the weekend of June 9-11, the AMPRA Championships where held in Victoria at Barry Murphy’s pylon racing field at Munro about 3 hours east of Melbourne.
This event was also the first of the Australian F3D team select for the 2019 World Championships to be held in Queensland.
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Results
Class – FA1
Places:
1st – Beau Murphy
2nd – Christopher Callow
3rd – Tyler Mees
Fastest Time: 54.74 – Beau Murphy (10 Lap Course).
No. of competitors: 18
Results
Class – F400
Places:
1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Jarrod Jacobsen
3rd – Brian Steele
Fastest Time: 67.33 – Andrew Davies (10 Lap Course).
No. of competitors: 13
Class – Q500
Places:
1st – David Chippindall
2nd – Jim Orenshaw
3rd – Stephen Wilkin
Fastest Time: 92.22 – Jim Orenshaw (10 Lap Course).
Season Championship
As of the end of AMPRA, the 2017-2018 Season Championship has been completed and below are the final results. Congratulations to the winners.
Just in the last event for the Season Championship, Leigh Hocken popped up into the winning position, Pushing Brian Steele down into 2nd place and Glenn Matthews remained in 3rd position
1st – Leigh Hocken
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Glenn Matthews
The top 2 positions stayed the same for this last event but Jim Orenshaw has moved up into 3rd position, displacing Glenn Matthews,
1st – Brian Steele
2nd – Andrew Davies
3rd – Jim Orenshaw
The standings for Q500 didn’t change as a result of this event.
1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – John Schmidli
3rd – Gary Whitbourn
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Event Report and Photos – John Schmidli
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Event Report – West Wyalong – MAAA Nationals
So VMPRA was off to the MAAA Nationals held in the New South Wales town of West Wyalong. We were to be providing the equipment and be running the event. Mick Dallmann from Queensland offered to be Contest Director for the weekend and did a fine job of it. It was great to see a good group on competitors down from Queensland and some from South Australia also.
We were allocated an area on the secondary runway at the local airport which had a gravel runway. There was some test flying on Friday but due to the difficult take-off and landing conditions much time was spent on laying out sheets and matting to keep the dust down on the take-off position and on the runway for the planes that land wheels up.
At the nationals, the classes of Q500, F400, F3T, F3D & F5D were raced. This meant that racing of F400 & F3T ran late into the afternoon with the sun very low in the sky.
One of the highlights of the Nationals is being surrounded by lots of people that are interested in the various facets of aeromodeling and getting a chance to watch some of these other events. Hopefully the Nats can become a more regular part of the Australian aeromodeling scene and especially for pylon racers from all over Australia to come together.
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Results
Class – FA1
Places:
1st Daniel Arapakis
2nd Andrew Davies
3rd Barry Murphy
Fastest Time: 61.57 – Daniel Arapakis
No. of competitors: 7
Class – F400
Places:
1st Glenn Matthews
2nd Barry Murphy
3rd Gary Davidson
Fastest Time: 68.71 – Gary Davidson
No. of competitors: 10
Class – F3T
Places:
1st Steve Taylor
2nd Barry Murphy
3rd Danny Giles
Fastest Time: 68.79 – Andrew Davies
No. of competitors: 7
Class – Q500
Places:
1st David Wilkins
2nd Steve Taylor
3rd Marc Hamilton
Fastest Time: 96.39 – Jim Orenshaw
No. of competitors: 11
Class – F5D
Places:
1st Trevor Pearce
2nd Daniel Arapakis
3rd David Wilkins
Fastest Time: 60.10 – Jim Orenshaw
No. of competitors: 4
Event Report and Photos – John Schmidli
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