North of England F3F Eurotour Open
Hole of Horcum
9th / 10th July 2011

Fastest time of the day 41.29 flown by Dieter Perlickl
Pictures, thanks to Dave Watson, Mike Shellim, Stefan Bertschi and Tom Foreman
Full Scores Breakdown Click here
Report by Jon Edison
 

Thanks to our sponsors T9Hobbysport and MKS Servo-tech.

29 pilots started the weekend, which considering the poor weather forecast was pretty good. Winds were never going to be strong, but at least they were from the West, making Levisham a simple choice. Saturday had probably the stronger winds of the weekend, but lots of rain showers, whilst Sunday struggled to produce legal wind speeds, still from the West, but fewer showers

Peter Kowalski was first man up, always difficult to go first in these conditions and 52.04 set the tone for the rest of the weekend. Peter finally finished in 15th. Robert Carson didn't have the best of weekends ending in 25th. Jon Wells had a good first round, before slipping down the rankings to end 19th. Joel West missed some good air with a cut, but still finished a splendid 3rd

Dieter Perlick, the eventual winner set the fastest time in R1 and won two more rounds to take the Title. Keith Woods a little up and down as they say, but still managed 8th and together with Team Mates Richard Bago ( 9th ) and Paul Middleton ( 6th ) took the Team Prize.

Paul Middleton had a good couple of rounds to finish 6th, whilst Simon Thornton just didn't get the air and ended in 12th place  Martin Newnham had a number of steady rounds to place 5th. Stefan Bertschi had a fairly consistent weekend to place 13th. Richard Bago had two good rounds to place him 9th

Mike Evans dropped down the rankings in the last few rounds to end 16th. Greg Dakin didn't have a good weekend by his standards, finished 14th. Mark Treble plugged away with his Compact, but couldn't get higher than 26th.

Paul Townsend got some good air in R2, before finally ended up in 18th. Mick Walsh had a so so weekend until his cracking R4 win, pulling him up into 4th overall. John Treble unfortunately trundled along the bottom of the rankings all weekend end up in 27th

Frank Hulton started the weekend in great style, but went down the pan on day 2 to finish in 17th place. Herman Torsten never really got to grips with the conditions and stayed in 23rd position. Meanwhile, Espen Torp had the requisite two good rounds winning R2, to give him a splendid second place.

Dave Watson had a 'oh no' moment in the last round to end in 22nd position. Jon Edison had some good air on more than one occasion to see him finish in 10th. Mike Shellim our master photographer, had a great flight in R4, to pull him up to 11th overall. Alan Scupham had a poor start otherwise he should have done better than his 20th placing.

Mike McCracken flew well to see him finish in 7th, whilst Ronnie Lampe flew his five rounds less well to sit him in 24th. John Phillips, last man away, didn't manage to get it together until the last round, ending the weekend in 21st.

 
 

With 29 Pilots and 5 Rounds completed, the final results were
( Club Members shown BOLD )

1 DIETER PERLICK Caldera R
3782.20
2 ESPEN TORP Freestyler
3472.96
3 JOEL WEST Freestyler
3458.36
4 MICK WALSH Ceres
3430.06
5 MARTIN NEWNHAM Freestyler
3397.40
6 PAUL MIDDLETON Skorpion
3372.94
7 MIKE McCRACKEN Ascot
3355.73
8 KEITH WOOD Freestyler
3345.78
9 RICHARD BAGO Martinet
3299.56
10 JON EDISON Extreme
3261.93
11 MIKE SHELLIM Skorpion
3240.55
12 SIMON THORNTON Fosa
3216.35
13 STEFAN BERTSCHI Hurricane
3193.72
14 GREG DAKIN Aliaj
3192.03
15 PETER KOWALSKI Caldera R
3171.65
16 MIKE EVANS Freestyler
3165.67
17 FRANK HULTON New Sting
3163.79
18 PAUL TOWNSEND Predator
3094.07
19 JON WELLS Estrella
3048.29
20 ALAN SCUPHAM Strega
3038.14
21 JOHN PHILLIPS Predator 2
2956.28
22 DAVE WATSON Vikos
2882.78
23 HERMAN TORSTEN Caldera
2876.99
24 RONNIE LAMPE Sting / Strega
2850.07
25 ROBERT CARSON Sting
2699.75
26 MARK TREBLE Wizard Compact
2661.58
27 JOHN TREBLE Extreme
2551.15
28 TOM FOREMAN Zenon
1455.50
29 PAUL UPTON Acacia 2
1420.35

Many thanks to Richard for helping with the CD duties, and to Ronnie Paul Mid and Frank Hulton for a stirling job as buzzer supremos . Thanks to all the Competitors for a excellent 2 days and for some inspired flying

Thanks also T9Hobbysports for supplying the Raffle prizes. Lucky winners were Mick Walsh, Mark Treble, Peter Kowalski and Frank Hulton

Jon Edison
Jul 2011

   
Links to more Photographs here :-
Mike Shellim
Stefan Bertschi
Tom Foreman
Dave Watson