End of Season

End of season

The lasts contests in Europe is coming to an end. In Rieti (where they did not fly the last four days, but enjoyed superlative speeds in the first five days) Thomas Gostner took the 18m class, whilst Herbert Weiss won the standard class (with Edoardo Tarchini and Corrada Costa hot on his heels). Herbert and Mario Kiessling will be back for the worlds next year, and one must certainly rate them together with the Italian duo.

In Leszno they are still flying the Polish Nationals late in the season. The weather must have been putrid (I could not follow the commentary in Polish) but Sebastiaan Kawa, fresh from his club class victory in the EGC, is in second place in the Diana, just behind Thomas Krok, also in a Diana.

In three weeks time we will start the South African season with the Gauteng Regionals. The grip of winter is still with us, but the long range forecast shows a drier and warmer than average period ahead, always good for contests.

Finally, a picture of a rainbow over Signal Hill, Cape Town, taken from my car on my way to work!

Sven