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Event Report – Newbridge, Oct 2024

Posted on November 8, 2024 by John Schmidli

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Results

These are the placings for this race weekend, plus the fastest time. For all the results, see the “Result” button below.

Class – FA1

Places:
1st Rick Townsend
2nd Andrew Davies
3rd Glenn Matthews

Fastest Time (Red Box): 65.32 Glenn Matthews.
No. of competitors: 4

Class – F3T

Places:
1st Andrew Davies
2nd John Schmidli
3rd Glenn Matthews

Fastest Time (Red Box): 64.08 Andrew Davies.
No. of competitors: 6

Class – Q500

Places:
1st John Schmidli
2nd Jim Orenshaw
3rd Eddie Rich

Fastest Time (Red Box): 99.19 John Schmidli
No. of competitors: 8

Check out the full results >>>

Season Championship

FA1

No change in the top 3 placings.

1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Anthony Thurgood

F3T

Again, no change in the top 3 positions.

1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Jim Orenshaw

Q500

No change in the top 3 placings for Quickie.

1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – John Schmidli
3rd – Eddie Rich

Check Out Season Championship >>>

Next Race Event – Munro Nov 9-10, 2024.

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Report  – John Schmidli.
Photos – John Schmidli

Please note: We are looking for someone to write event reports regularly. Also, it would be wonderful to have someone photograph these events. This site has a vast readership and is important and valuable to pylon racing in Victoria, Australia and Worldwide.

The written content in this post is accurate to the best of my/our knowledge at the time of publishing. It is written from my/our perspective and reflects how I/we have experienced this event. Photos published as feature images are selected purely for their quality, general interest or topicality. When time permits, they are chosen from a pool of photos taken by myself and others. If a perspective is not being represented, I am more than happy to publish any written content or photos supplied to me, provided it is fair and reasonable.

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Posted in Reports | Tagged Bendigo, F3d, F3T, FA1, Q500, VMPRA

Event Report – Warrnambool (State Champs), September 2024

Posted on September 29, 2024 by John Schmidli

It was wonderful to be back at the Warrnambool Model Aircraft Club for the second time this year to hold our State Championships combined with the World Champs team selections.

Again, for the third time in a row, we encountered difficult weather on Saturday, with improved conditions on Sunday, where we carried out the majority of the racing. This meant we flew reduced rounds for the whole weekend.

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These are the placings for this race weekend, plus the fastest time. For all the results, see the “Result” button below.

Class – FA1

Places:
1st Beau Murphy
2nd Leigh Hocken
3rd Tom Wetherill

Fastest Time (Red Box): 57.18 Beau Murphy.
No. of competitors: 8

Class – F3T

Places:
1st Andrew Davies
2nd Gary Davidson
3rd Glenn Matthews

Fastest Time (Red Box): 65.09 Andrew Davies.
No. of competitors: 8

Class – Q500

Places:
1st John Schmidli
2nd Jim Orenshaw
3rd Alan Whitbourne

Fastest Time (Red Box): 98.04 John Schmidli
No. of competitors: 8

Check out the full results >>>

Season Championship

FA1

No change in the top 3 placings, with Andrew increasing his lead by another 2 points, making him 4 points ahead of Brian. Anthony Thurgood remains in 3rd place.

1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Anthony Thurgood

F3T

Andrew Davies has regained the lead over Brian by 7 points, having been on equal points prior to this race. Jim Orenshaw remains in 3rd place.

1st – Brian Steele
2nd – Andrew Davies
3rd – Jim Orenshaw

Q500

No change in the top 3 placings for Quickie.

1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – John Schmidli
3rd – Eddie Rich

Check Out Season Championship >>>

Next Race Event – Rick’s Field @ Newbridge on October 12 – 13.

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Report  – John Schmidli.
Photos – John Schmidli

Please note: We are looking for someone to write event reports regularly. Also, it would be wonderful to have someone photograph these events. This site has a vast readership and is important and valuable to pylon racing in Victoria, Australia and Worldwide.

The written content in this post is accurate to the best of my/our knowledge at the time of publishing. It is written from my/our perspective and reflects how I/we have experienced this event. Photos published as feature images are selected purely for their quality, general interest or topicality. When time permits, they are chosen from a pool of photos taken by myself and others. If a perspective is not being represented, I am more than happy to publish any written content or photos supplied to me, provided it is fair and reasonable.

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Posted in Reports | Tagged Bendigo, F3d, F3T, FA1, Q500, VMPRA

Event Report – Cohuna, September 2024

Posted on September 8, 2024 by John Schmidli

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.

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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

Check out the full results >>>

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

Check Out Season Championship >>>

Next Race Event – State Championship & F3D/F3E WC Team Trial Warrnambool 14th – 15th September.

Check Out Complete Calendar >>>
 

Report  – John Schmidli.
Photos – John Schmidli

Please note: We are looking for someone to write event reports regularly. Also, it would be wonderful to have someone photograph these events. This site has a vast readership and is important and valuable to pylon racing in Victoria, Australia and Worldwide.

The written content in this post is accurate to the best of my/our knowledge at the time of publishing. It is written from my/our perspective and reflects how I/we have experienced this event. Photos published as feature images are selected purely for their quality, general interest or topicality. When time permits, they are chosen from a pool of photos taken by myself and others. If a perspective is not being represented, I am more than happy to publish any written content or photos supplied to me, provided it is fair and reasonable.

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Posted in Reports | Tagged Bendigo, F3d, F3T, FA1, Q500, VMPRA

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FASTEST TIMES
Fastest Recorded Times for the 2026 Championship (10.5 Lap Course Only)

FA1 - Rick Townsend - 65.07
F3T - Andrew Davies - 67.37
Q500 - John Schmidli - 98.18

E2K - Andrew Davies - 80.52 (Short Course)

As of Apr 27, 2026 Race.


CHAMPIONSHIP
The results of the 2026 Season Championship.

FA1
1 - Anthony Thurgood
2 - Andrew Davies
3 - Tom Wetherill

F3T
1 - Jim Orenshaw
2 - Glenn Matthews
3 - John Schmidli

Q500
1 - Jim Orenshaw
2 - John Schmidli
3 - Eddy Rich

E2K
1 - Glenn Matthews
2 - John Schmidli
3 - Jim Orenshaw

More Details>>>

Updated Apr 27, 2026


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