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Event Report – Munro May 2022

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On May 28-29, the VMPRA headed off to Barry Murphy’s fantastic purpose-built pylon racing field at Munro.
On arrival on Saturday morning, I was struck by how many people were camping out at the field with a plethora of vans, trailers and tents all set up.

We couldn’t have picked a better weekend for the weather. It was mostly clear skies, mild temperatures (once the sun was up) and light breezes.
There was a good amount of entries with 7 x Q500, 7 x F3T & 5 x F3D entries, plus a good amount of spectators. It was a pleasure not having trouble getting helpers; hence all racing was carried out with a full complement of pylon judges.

We carried out 8 rounds of each class and there was some excellent racing, particularly at the top of the tables. The race results pretty much tell the story of the racing for the weekend.

Other than that, it was an enjoyable and social weekend and although I wasn’t there on the night, I believe there was a great feed put on, as usual, by Andrew Arapakis and Matt Noonan’s band was a big hit. This is something new to pylon racing for us. Good one Matt.

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Results

Class – FA1

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

Fastest Time (Red Box): 58.55 Beau Murphy
No. of competitors: 5

Class – F3T

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

Fastest Time (Red Box): 61.63 Beau Murphy
No. of competitors: 7

Class – Q500

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

Fastest Time (Red Box): 95.40 David Chippindall
No. of competitors: 7

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Season Championship

At this stage, it looks like these are the final positions for this season’s championship as we would be holding our AGM at the next event, Cohuna making that event the start of the new 2022-2023 season.

FA1

After Beau’s win this weekend, he’s popped up from 3rd position into 1st place pushing both Brian and Tom down a place into 2nd and 3rd respectively.

1st – Beau Murphy
2nd – Brian Steele
3rd – Tom Wetherill

F3T

Jim has remained at the top 10 points ahead of Barry who has jumped up into 2nd place from 5th and Brian has moved up into 3rd place from 4th.

1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – Barry Murphy
3rd – Brian Steele

Q500

There was no change in places since the last race at Echuca with Jim strengthening his lead, 8 points ahead of John.

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

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Next Race

The next race meet will be on August 13-14 at the home of pylon racing in Victoria, Cohuna. I hope to see you all there.

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Report  – John Schmidli
Photos – Sarah Doyle, Andrew Arapakis & John Schmidli

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Event Report – Munro Mar 2021

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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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Report  – John Schmidli

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Event Report – Munro June 2019

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Back on June 29 – 30, the VMPRA held a pylon race meet at Barry Murphy’s pylon racing field at Munto in Victoria. Due to the F3D world championships not being long after this date, we raced F3T & Q500 only for this event.

The intention was to fly 12 rounds of each class over the weekend. The weather had a different idea. Conditions were very windy and flying stopped for a while on several occasions.
By the end of the event, 8 rounds of Q500 and 3 rounds of F3T were completed.

Below are the results and championship standings for this event

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Results

Class – F3T 

Places:
1st John Schmidli
2nd Jim Orenshaw
3rd Brian Steele

Fastest Time: 67.10 Andrew Davies
No. of competitors: 8

Class – Q500

Places:
1st John Schmidli
2nd Allan Swift
3rd Jim Orenshaw

Fastest Time: 96.78 Allan Swift – Note: Q500 Class racing was a non-compliant race. Not all pylons were observed. The fastest time will not be recorded.
No. of competitors: 9

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Season Championship

This was the final race event for the 2018/2019 Seasons Championship, so below are the final top 3 positions for each class. The 1st place getters will receive their Seasons Champion trophies at the Cohuna AGM.

FA1

Congratulations goes to Daniel Arapakis for winning his 3rd Season Championship for FA1.

1st – Daniel Arapakis
2nd – Leigh Hocken
3rd – Andrew Davies

 

 

 

 

 

F400/F3T

There was no change in the top 3 positions post the Munro race. A big congratulations goes out to Andrew Davies. This is also his 3rd Championship win in the last 4 seasons.

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

 

 

 

 

 

Q500

Again there was no change in the top 3 positions post the Munro race. A big congratulations goes out to Jim Orenshaw. This is his 4th season championship in 4 years.

1st – Jim Orenshaw
2nd – Allan Swift
3rd – John Schmidli

 

 

 

 

 

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Fastest Times for the season.

Through-out the season we keep a record of the fastest race times for the season. This is an informal competition but everybody loves to win the fastest time for an event. I’ve only just become aware that it is now becoming commonly known as the “Red Box”, named after how the fastest time is indicated on the results table. Here are the fastest times for the year.

Next Race

Cohuna – FA1, F3T & Q500  plus our AGM. Sept 14-15, 2019

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Report  – John Schmidli

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Photos published as feature images are selected purely for their quality, general interest or topicality. They are chosen from a pool of photos taken by myself and others when time permits.

If a perspective is not being represented, I am more than happy to publish any written content or photos that are supplied to me provided it is fair and reasonable.

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