Event Report – 2021 AMPRA/WC Team Trial – Warrnambool Feb 2022

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Scadtastic

On the weekend of February 26-27, 2022, we finally had a chance to get together and run our 2021 AMPRA Champs. The AMPRA event was also a team selection for the F3D World Championships to be held later this year in the U.S. This meant we had lots of competitors from interstate come down, which was great to see.

We had some of our interstate visitors arrive earlier in the week. On the Friday afternoon when I arrived, there were many people there practising and set up ready for the weekend.

To ensure our best chance of getting through our flying programme for the weekend, we scheduled to start racing quite early (at 8 am), meaning people were turning up to setup their planes in the dark.
The first class we ran, this being a team trial, was F3D, one of the priority classes for the weekend. We managed to get through the five minimum required rounds very early.

After a short break, we commenced flying F3E and Q500 to give the competitors of F3E, a chance to charge batteries between rounds, which worked quite well and kept a good flow for the event.

We managed to get through the eight rounds of combined F3E & Q500 by about the middle of the afternoon, meaning we could bring forward the AMPRA meeting. We had to discuss some items of business for AMPRA. AMPRA (Australian Miniature Pylon Racing Association) is the Australian body for pylon racing. This event was the AMPRA Championships, which we hold once a year, normally in June, but due to COVID, this had been delayed from last year.

The next day we started early again. First up, we had to finish the remaining three rounds of F3D, making up a total of eight rounds. This done, we had completed the required racing for the team trials.

It was still early in the day, so we had time to run a good eight rounds of F3T. This class is always great to race and we had a good mix of Victoria and Queensland flyers flying this event.

F3T all finished up in the early afternoon after a short break for lunch. Presentations were made and we started leaving the field about 2:30 in the afternoon.

In general, it was a great event. It was excellent to have competitors from interstate, including Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria.

We saw some fantastic racing. In particular, some very tight racing between Beau Murphy and Lea Hocken, with Beau coming out on top with some excellent times. It was also great to see some good results in F3E.
Quickie 500 was competed only by Victorians and as usual, Jim Orenshaw came out on top.

The Warrnambool club did another great job of hosting, and we all very much appreciated it. Everyone pitched in and helped with pylon judging and timing. A great weekend had by all.

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Results

Class – FA1

Places:
1st Beau Murphy
2nd Leigh Hocken
3rd Tyler Mees

Fastest Time: 54.55 Beau Murphy
No. of competitors: 6

Class – F3E

Places:
1st Tyler Mees
2nd Tony Singleton
3rd Trevor Pearce

Fastest Time: 56:27 Tony Singleton
No. of competitors: 6

Class – F3T

Places:
1st Andrew Wall
2nd Steve Hughes
3rd Glenn Matthews

Fastest Time: 60.51 Andrew Wall
No. of competitors: 6

Class – Q500

Places:
1st Jim Orenshaw
2nd James Hurley
3rd John Schmidli

Fastest Time: 94.49 Jim Orenshaw
No. of competitors: 6

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Season Championship

FA1

1st – Leigh Hocken
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Tom Wetherill

F3T

1st – Glenn Matthews
2nd – Jim Orenshaw
3rd – Andrew Davies

Q500

1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – John Schmidli
3rd – James Hurley

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Next Race

The next race meet will be on March 26-27 at Rick Townsend’s model airfield.
Classes being raced will be F3D, F3E & Q500.

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Report & Photos – John Schmidli

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Event Report – Warrnambool Nov 2021

Posted on November 13, 2021 by Scadtastic

Finally, the VMPRA was able to go back to racing and back to the Warrnambool Model Aircraft Club. What a fantastic club facility they have there. The field was beautifully prepared, the club put on great catering and the help was incredible.

Saturday was a little wet particularly in the morning and early afternoon so after completing 4 rounds of Q500, we held the AMG. After that, the weather had clear enough to fly 4 rounds of F3D,

Sunday, the weather was more stable and with an early start, we completed 8 rounds of F3T, then the balance of the Q500 and F3D rounds. All in all, it was a great weekend and the welcome return to pylon racing in Victoria.

We look forward to returning to this club for our world champs team selection event in Feb 2022.

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Results

Class – FA1

Places:
1st Leigh Hocken
2nd Brian Steele
3rd Tom Wetherill

Fastest Time: 56.77 Leigh Hocken
No. of competitors: 6

Class – F3T

Places:
1st Andrew Davies
2nd Glenn Matthews
3rd Jim Orenshaw

Fastest Time: 61.04 Andrew Davies
No. of competitors: 6

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

Fastest Time: 98.18 Jim Orenshaw
No. of competitors: 6

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Season Championship

FA1

1st – Leigh Hocken
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Tom Wetherill

F3T

1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Glenn Matthews
3rd – Jim Orehshaw

Q500

1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – John Schmidli
3rd – Gary Whitbourn

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Next Race

The next race meet will be a World Champs team selection event at Warrnambool on Feb 26-27, 2022.
Classes being raced will be F3D, F3E & Q500.

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Report – John Schmidli

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Event Report – Munro Mar 2021

Posted on March 20, 2021 by Scadtastic

Well, it has been such a long time since we last all went pylon racing. With a false start back in February due to wet weather, the VMPRA finally re-launched pylon racing in Victoria.

The weather was kind to us and we managed to race a complete program of 8 rounds of Q500, F3D & F3T over the weekend.
An early start and refuelling out on the line saw Q500 complete five rounds before 11 am. Next up was F3D, with four rounds and then after lunch, two rounds of f3T before a cool change came through, stopping flying for the day.

We finally held our long-delayed AGM from last year and later that night, we all enjoyed another one of Andrew Arapakis’s spit roast meals.

Sunday was cooler compared to Saturday’s warm and humid conditions. As a result, times were faster, with fast and furious racing by Beau Murphy and Daniel Arapakis for F3D. David Chippindall also recorded a very fast sub 90 sec time for Q500.

We cycled through all the remaining rounds and classes, managing to finish up by lunch. After a lunch break consisting of some very nice pizza’s and left-overs from Saturday night, we packed up, held presentations and headed home.

As I said at the start, it was great to be back racing again and thanks to Barry Murphy for having us at his excellent pylon racing field.

Results

Class – FA1

Places:
1st Beau Murphy
2nd Daniel Arapakis
3rd Barry Murphy

Fastest Time: 57.63 Daniel Arapakis
No. of competitors: 4

Class – F3T

Places:
1st Glenn Matthews
2nd Barry Murphy
3rd Jim Orenshaw

Fastest Time: 63.73 Glenn Matthews
No. of competitors: 7

Places:
1st David Chippindall
2nd Jim Orenshaw
3rd John Schmidli

Fastest Time: 89.76 David Chippindall
No. of competitors: 6

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Next Race

There have been a few recent additions to the event calendar with more to come so make sure you pencil in the confirmed events and keep an eye out for further updates.

The next event will be held at Warrnambool on April 17-18, 2021. Hope we can get a big turn-out there for some great racing. See you then.

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Event Report – Warrnambool Nov, 2019

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Scadtastic

The event was at Warrnambool on Nov 16-17. This field was in absolutely perfect condition with the club having recently upgraded all their facilities and the weather had been very kind with very green pastures and hay being cut everywhere.

Thanks to the Warrnambool Club for hosting this event and we look forward to revisiting you at the end of Feb 2020.

Results

Class – FA1

Places:
1st Andrew Davies
2nd Tom Wetherill
3rd Brian Steele

Fastest Time: 63.39 Beau Murphy
No. of competitors: 6

Class – F3T

Places:
1st Glenn Matthews
2nd Brian Steele
3rd John Schmidli

Fastest Time: 64.00 Andrew Davies
No. of competitors: 8

Places:
1st Mike Kellet
2nd John Schmidli
3rd Gary Whitbourn

Fastest Time: 96.27 Jim Orenshaw
No. of competitors: 8

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Season Championship

This was the first event for the new 2019-2020 season championship.

FA1

Andrew Davies and Brian Steels remain in 1st and 2nd places respectively. Leigh Hocken has displayed Beau Murphy for 3rd Place.

1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Leigh Hocken

F3T

Brian Steele and Andrew Davies have moved up a position each leaving Jim Orenshaw in 3rd place after not competing at this event.

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

Q500

Jim Orenshaw remains in first place and Gary Whitbourn has moved up to 2nd pushing Allan Swift down to 3rd place.

1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – Gary Whitbourn
3rd – Allan Swift

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Next Race

Warrnambool Feb 29 – Mar 1.

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Event Report – Newbridge Oct 2019

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Scadtastic

This event was run out at Rick Townsend’s private aeromodelling field at Newbridge.

Results

Class – FA1

Places:
1st Andrew Davies
2nd Brian Steele
3rd Beau Murphy

Fastest Time: 58.03 Beau Murphy
No. of competitors: 8

Class – F3T

Places:
1st Jim Orenshaw
2nd Brian Steele
3rd Marcus Guss

Fastest Time: 65.35 Andrew Davies
No. of competitors: 9

Places:
1st Allan Swift
2nd Jim Orenshaw
3rd Robin Gray

Fastest Time: 96.57 Jim Orenshaw
No. of competitors: 6

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Season Championship

This was the first event for the new 2019-2020 season championship.

FA1

Andrew Davies and Brian Steels remain in 1st and 2nd places respectively. Beau Murphy has displayed Leigh Hocken for 3rd Place.

1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Beau Murphy

F3T

Jim Orenshaw and Brian Steele have moved up a place each into 1st & 2nd respectively displacing Andrew Davies who’s now in 3rd position.

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

Q500

Allan Swift has moved up to 2nd position with Alan Whitbourne next in 3rd place.

1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – Allan Swift
3rd – Alan Whitbourne

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Next Race

Warrnambool 16-17 November.
Proposed schedule F3T, FA1 & Q500 both days.

Please note that the December 7-8 Munro event has been cancelled.

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Event Report – Munro Feb, 2019

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Scadtastic

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

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Season Championship

FA1

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

Q500

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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Event Report – Warrnambool Dec, 2018

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Scadtastic

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

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Season Championship

FA1

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

Q500

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

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Scadtastic

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

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Season Championship

FA1

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

Q500

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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Cohuna – 2018 VMAA State Championships

Posted on September 23, 2018 by Scadtastic

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

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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!

FA1

Leigh Hocken jumps up from 8th to 2nd position after this convincing win.

1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Leigh Hocken
3rd – Barry Murphy

F400

1st – Andrew Davies
2nd – Jim Orenshaw
3rd – Gary Davidson

Q500

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 – Bendigo 2018

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Scadtastic

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.

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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

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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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