Sports-class Racing Series - SRS

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Task 5 Roldanillo, Colombia.

The weather forecast was very encouraging and an eighty km task was set. Even though the cloud remained stubbornly on the launch, we were getting reports of blue sky in the valley. Once the cloud cleared enough to launch, it became clear that the conditions were pretty poor with a pretty heavy upper cloud layer. Thoughts of optimal starts were abandoned and the best place to be was on the mountains. Once in the flats the going was very slow, and every climb was milked dry. After La Victoria, Victor Aguilera, Luis Pol and Pepe Malecki broke away directly towards Obanda. Victor and Luis maintained their lead of several kilometres through the first two turnpoints, where the vast majority of the other pilots got stuck and landed. Victor continued alone south towards Zarzal, to be eventually followed, about 25 minutes later by Carlos Lopes, Raphael Oerer and Cesar Urrego who patiently worked their way to Zarzal in the difficult conditions to eventually overfly Victor. Cesar made it furthest to seal the task win, despite Victor taking all the leading points, and this was enough for him to win the whole competition.

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