Total Entries :- 30 Juniors :- 1 Countries :- 14
The racing circle was on a superb surface which was smooth but with a good grip a combination that is very often lacking. The three sets of heats were held over the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with the Semis on the Friday and the Final on the Saturday. Practice saw many teams rotating in the mid 17 secs for 10 laps so we were expecting a few fast times to be put in. One surprise was the non-presence of reigning champions - Bondarenko/Lerner who had been expected to attend the championships.
In the first round Fry/Whorton were first up for the UK but had a nightmare situation when the starting became strange during warm-up and then the propeller spun loose at the race start. When the model eventually took off the motor overheated within 10 laps and a 4:40.6 was the final outcome. Investigation showed that the hub of the propeller had collapsed due to internal voids thus causing it to come loose and also for one blade to have lifted by around 10 mm pitch. Langworth/Broadhead put in a reasonable 3:29.4 in the following race and the Smith/Brown recorded a 3:22.6 in the next heat. We had to wait until the last four races to see any sub 3:20s but we then had three teams show us how it should be done Shabashov/Ivanov (RUS) with a 3:15.9, and then the two French teams of Picard/Perret and Surugue/Surugue both recording 3:17.7.
In the second round we again saw very few fast times until the end of the round and there were to be several reflies due to incidents during the round, many caused by the heavy wind blowing across the circle. The UK team of Fry/Whorton were flying against the Russian pilot - Andrey Yuschenko who is around 6ft 7ins tall and were expecting trouble. Yuschenko is now pilot for engine man Victor Yugov and is very difficult to fly against. In the race the UK motor overheated after 20 laps and, despite frantic attempts with cold water spray, the heat could not be lost from the unit and a 4:05.6 resulted. Langworth/Broadhead could not improve on their first round time but Smith/Brown finally managed to put in a 3:18.4 after having to fly in two refly races. Fastest in this round were Samuelsson/Axtilius (SWE) with a 3:17.0 followed by Averine/Martchenko (RUS) with 3:18.0. It was clear at this point that the team prize was going to be a close fight between France and Russia who both had three teams in the semi-final positions but the surprise for the UK was that they had a chance of the bronze medal if they could just pick up a couple of extra points Spain and Italy being their main contenders.
Round three was much better for the UK first up were Fry/Whorton who settled for an over-safe setting to try and secure the team bronze. A cold engine very nearly ran short on range having to glide the last 1.5 laps but a 3:34.3 was enough to move them up by 6 places and put the UK clear in the bronze position. Langworth/Broadhead then put in a good 3:25.9 to, themselves, improve by one place. and Smith/Brown followed up with a 3:16.4 to secure their semi-final place. Shabashov/Ivanov put in the fastest time of the meeting so far with a 3:12.4 and the French Surugue brothers improved by a couple of seconds posting a 3:15.6. The UK team had sit with their fingers crossed while the Spanish and Italian flyers had their chances to take the team bronze but luck seemed to be on the UK side as the opposition all had problems in their respective races. The only challenge left could come from the Italian team of Martini/Menozzi who could get into the semis via a rely situation and an improvement of 5 places would affect the bronze position.
It was to be the first round of semis that decided the finalists with Surugue/Surugue posting a superb 3:09.6 - the fastest time of the meeting and a World Record !. Shabashov/Ivanov recorded a 3:11.5 and Kramarenko/Chayka (UKR) a 3:15.3. Non of the teams were able to affect the individual placings in the second round of semis but Smith/Brown were able to guarantee the UK team bronze with a 7th individual place as there were no replies and the Italians therefore did not have a chance to change things.
The final was a close run affair with Shabashov leading through most of the race until the French pair started to eat back the lead during the last third. At 160 laps the Surugue brothers crept ahead and a catching error by Ivanov seemed to have sealed the Russians fate at the last stop. Shabashov was eventually disqualified (trying too hard) on 185 laps a pity at the end of such a good race and the Ukrainian pair of Kramarenko/Chayka took the silver with a time of 7:02.0, 20 seconds behind the French team who finished in 6:42.7.
In the team event it was to be the French that triumphed again with a total of 10 points followed by Russia on 20 points and the UK in bronze on 45 points.
Overall | TeamID | Country | Name | Elim 1 | Elim 2 | Elim 3 | Semi 1 | Semi 2 | Final | |
Place | ||||||||||
1 | C005 | FRA | Surugue, Pascal / Surugue, Georges | 03:17.7 | 03:21.5 | 03:15.6 | 03:09.6 | 03:25.2 | 06:42.7 | |
2 | C029 | UKR | Kramarenko, Valeriy / Chayka, Yuriy | DNF: 1 | 03:20.2 | 03:17.1 | 03:15.3 | 03:23.2 | 07:02.0 | |
3 | C032 | RUS | Shabashov, Yury / Ivanov, Vladimir | 03:15.9 | DNF: 49 | 03:12.4 | 03:11.5 | DNF: 83 | DQ: 185 | |
4 | C007 | FRA | Ougen, Thierry / Surugue, Roland | DNF: 35 | 03:18.9 | 03:16.7 | 03:41.7 | 03:16.1 | ||
5 | C006 | FRA | Picard, Fabrice / Perret, Claire | 03:17.7 | 03:27.5 | 03:19.9 | 03:19.4 | 03:29.3 | ||
6 | C004 | SWE | Samuelsson, Bengt-Olof / Axtilius, Kjell | DNF: 88 | 03:17.0 | 03:27.2 | DNF: 34 | 03:25.8 | ||
7 | C013 | GBR | Smith, Steven / Brown, Colin | 03:22.6 | 03:18.4 | 03:16.4 | DNF: 68 | 03:28.4 | ||
8 | C033 | RUS | Averine, Viktor / Martchenko, Viktor | 03:25.3 | 03:18.0 | 03:21.4 | DNF: 81 | 03:33.7 | ||
9 | C034 | RUS | Yushchenko, Andrey / Yugov, Viktor | 03:21.7 | DQ: 0 | 03:16.7 | DQ: 0 | DQ: 0 | ||
10 | C019 | ITA | Martini, Giancarlo / Menozzi, Marco | 03:28.9 | 03:32.9 | 03:19.4 | ||||
11 | C011 | AUS | Fitzgerald, Robert / Ellins, Mark | 03:48.3 | 03:23.7 | 03:20.0 | ||||
12 | C024 | ESP | Crespi, Marti / Crespi, Pedro | DNF: 35 | 03:20.3 | DNF: 0 | ||||
13 | C020 | ITA | Magli, Marcello / Pirazzini, Elvis | 03:27.3 | 03:21.9 | DNF: 34 | ||||
14 | C012 | NZL | Robinson, Andrew / Suter, Shaun | 03:22.4 | 03:31.3 | 03:38.3 | ||||
15 | C001 | USA | Ascher, Aaron / Ascher, Lenard | 03:50.8 | 03:23.0 | 03:40.4 | ||||
16 | C016 | SIN | Wee, Christopher / Satha, S. | 03:35.3 | 03:23.4 | 03:44.2 | ||||
17 | C015 | SIN | Ong, Richard / Su, David | 03:25.2 | 03:40.5 | 03:46.2 | ||||
18 | C021 | GBR | Langworth, Bernie / Broadhead, John | 03:29.4 | 03:42.6 | 03:25.9 | ||||
19 | C025 | ESP | Sanchez, Jose M / Carracedo, Eliseo | 03:30.4 | DQ: 1 | 04:10.3 | ||||
20 | C022 | GBR | Fry, Dave / Whorton, Andy | 04:40.6 | 04:05.6 | 03:34.3 | ||||
21 | C023 | ESP | Barragan, Antonio / Barragan, Juan | DQ: 0 | 03:35.2 | DNF: 29 | ||||
22 | C002 | USA | Ryan, Todd / Gillott, Tim | DQ: 0 | DNF: 0 | 03:38.4 | ||||
23 | C030 | GER | Kiel, Alexander / Teterjukov, Nikolaj | 03:38.5 | DNF: 71 | 03:48.3 | ||||
24 | C028 | NED | Vendel, Micha / Van Gemert, Peter | DQ: 0 | 03:47.9 | 03:41.4 | ||||
25 | C031 | GER | Lindemann, Reinhard / Kiel, Udo | 03:43.0 | DNF: 0 | DNF: 68 | ||||
26 | C018 | ITA | Marasini, Roberto / Losi, Roberto | 03:44.2 | DNF: 4 | DNF: 70 | ||||
27 | C010 | AUS | Justic, Richard / Stein, Paul | 03:52.7 | DQ: 0 | DNF: 84 | ||||
28 | C026 | CAN | Lamoureux, Robert / Pecherskiy, Rostislav | 05:13.9 | 04:40.5 | DNF: 0 | ||||
29 | C014 | SIN | Ow, Jonathan / Lim, Jin-Heng | Jr | DNF: 31 | 05:23.7 | DNF: 19 | |||
30 | C003 | USA | Willoughby, Stewart / Oge, Bob | DNF: 0 | DQ: 0 | DNF: 79 |
Place |
Country |
Score |
Competitor |
Competitor |
Competitor |
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Place |
Place |
Place |
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1 |
France |
10 |
C005 |
1 |
C007 |
4 |
C006 |
5 |
2 |
Russia |
20 |
C032 |
3 |
C033 |
8 |
C034 |
9 |
3 |
Great Britain |
45 |
C013 |
7 |
C021 |
18 |
C022 |
20 |
4 |
Italy |
49 |
C019 |
10 |
C020 |
13 |
C018 |
26 |
5 |
Spain |
52 |
C024 |
12 |
C025 |
19 |
C023 |
21 |
6 |
Singapore |
62 |
C016 |
16 |
C015 |
17 |
C014 |
29 |
7 |
United States of America |
67 |
C001 |
15 |
C002 |
22 |
C003 |
30 |
8 |
Australia |
38 |
C011 |
11 |
C010 |
27 |
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9 |
Germany |
48 |
C030 |
23 |
C031 |
25 |
||
10 |
Ukraine |
2 |
C029 |
2 |
||||
11 |
Sweden |
6 |
C004 |
6 |
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12 |
New Zealand |
14 |
C012 |
14 |
||||
13 |
The Netherlands |
24 |
C028 |
24 |
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14 |
Canada |
28 |
C026 |
28 |