Wine Country Flyers Model Aircraft Club Forum

The results of Race 1 have been calculated and will be posted shortly. Be sure to check out the Race 1 Report and photos from Jake at Jake's Performance Hobbies.

http://www.jphracing.com/2012_March_Pylon_Report.cfm

Race 1 results have been posted. The next race is April 15th. Be there!

Race 2 results have been posted. There are no throw-outs now because the series is only 4 races. Make em count!

-Jon 

Jake has posted a report on the April round of Pylon Racing with some great pictures too on the JPH website.

Great reports Jake! Keep em coming!

http://www.jphracing.com/April_15th__2012__WCF_Pylon_Report.cfm

No throw-Outs??  WOW!   :o

I know someone thats going to be upset to hear this!

Why is there no more throw outs?

The board voted to count all 4 races at the last meeting. I'm bummed too, sure could have used a throw out in Reno 450.

Well, I guess it is what it is ...  But looking back on it, I would have voted differently at the field meeting, knowing there would be no throw-outs ....  Kind of goes against the intentions of having two short seasons?  Plus, had I known the throw-out would be changed, I would have handled the first race of the season differently ....  But, that's the way the racing goes, there's a curve ball thrown in every now and then!

I don't know if I would call that a curve ball? I have a different name for that. I know things would have been approached differently if I would have know the rules are subject to change mid-season.

Fellow Racers,

    You can't please everyone. We changed the racing to 2 short season's based on people's request. Some racers can't make it every time and did not want to fall to far behind. So we went with the 4 month season. We as a board decided to not have throw out's because of the short season. It now seems some of you are upset there will be no throw out's, Saying you would have done things differently. I think we should have put the throw out vote to the racers, not the board. Steve and I have been discussing what to do about it.
    Personally I like the long season. Somewhere along the year people may miss a race or two but at the end of the year the points are still close.
    I don't think our intention was to throw a curveball at you guy's, we just want to please everyone. I think we should have an eight race season with the endurance race in the middle of the year to mix things up. Just my 2 cents.
    We will discuss this further and let u know. It will more than likely come down to a vote from the racers.
Thanks,
Adam

The May points update has been posted. Be sure to check out the article and photos from the May round of racing by Jake!

http://www.jphracing.com/Airplane_Event_Reports_from_JPH_Racing.cfm

Any idea how Jake McDonald finished in Reno 450? He flew three races in May and another three races in June.

Oops, looks like I missed Jake, sorry. I've updated the points with him included.

The final standings for the Spring Series have been posted.

Congratulations to the top finishers in each class!

T-28/Corsair

1. Mike Kalua
2. Jeff Penner
3. Jake McDonald

Reno 450

1. Steve Cole
2. Tony McDonald
3. Adam Clement

Dogfighter

1. Jon Stychno
2. Adam Clement
3. Brian Young

EF1

1. Steve Cole
2. Red Jensen
3. Jon Stychno

     Is there any significant rule changes to any of the race classes in the summer series compared to the spring series? Is there still no throw out race?

At this point it looks like a 5 race series with one throw out, we will finalize things at the board meeting on the 10th.