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UK F3F 2008 League Reserve and Final Results

All's well that ends well, and it's fantastic for me be UK F3F Champion for the fourth time, but as soon as I saw the final league competition was going to be on the back of the Wrecker my heart sank!   Time and time again this slope has handed out nothing but crap air my way - it downright hates me!  And the final league event of the year started the same way; after the first two rounds I was in last place with a 59 and a 57 against Simon Thornton's two 48s!

Being pretty hacked off at this stage and trying to prompt a change of luck I switched to the Ceres and it seems the back of the Wrecker loves the Ceres slightly more than it hates me.  Over the next 8 rounds I clawed a bit back each round until creeping into the lead right at the death.   Rule one in F3F is never give up.

Although the air was all over the place it was clear that Simon Thornton (yep, old golden balls himself is back) has not suffered much from his lay off and that Mark Redsell has now turned the corner from being an awesome pilot to an awesome pilot who's got that little something extra that grinds out results.

There was a fair selection of models on display, it's just a shame the conditions were such that it was pretty much impossible to form a worthwhile opinion about any of them.  The Vikos from T9 certainly didn't do its sales any harm.  The Skorpion was slippery quick as ever.  The Race M cross tail was on rails.  Thornton made the V tail RaceM Ultimate sing.  And the Viking was fast and balanced - I still adore that plane!

Unfortunately I'm working 7 days a week at the moment so I haven't pulled together the head to head review of the Ascot and the Ceres, but I will.

Finally, thanks to Andy Ellison for all the work he's done to run the league and for going the extra mile in drumming up some funding for the UK team in Slovakia.  Top man, thanks Andy.

Once again, thanks to BarkWeb for the webspace.

League Reserve Result

Final 2008 UK F3F League Standings

 
 1 K Newton      8580.50
 2 M Redsell     8498.44
 3 S Thornton    8439.69
 4 K Wood        8114.10
 5 T Macpherson  8057.65
 6 R Bago        8035.63
 7 J West        8003.59
 8 F Hulton      7995.14
 9 G Dakin       7989.89
10 J Edison      7962.47
11 J Sage        7856.13
12 M Walsh       7842.02
13 G Reed        7813.50
14 M Abbotts     7738.00
15 A West        7646.14
16 I Mason       7577.48
17 A Tabero      7556.58
18 S Clutterbuck 7327.53
19 M Evans       5655.77
 
 1 K Newton     2000.00
 2 M Redsell    1935.11
 3 G Dakin      1879.23
 4 T Macpherson 1846.39
 5 G Reed       1804.53
 6 K Wood       1795.27
 7 M Walsh      1779.06
 8 R Bago       1772.10
 9 J Edison     1728.89
10 I Mason      1725.83
11 F Hulton     1724.03
12 J Sage       1656.53
13 A Tabero     1653.53
14 S Thornton    983.59
15 J West        932.77
16 M Abotts      901.81
17 A West        891.11
18 P Gunning     865.70
19 P Garnett     864.66
20 S Clutterbuck 853.98
21 P Jubb        831.93
22 D Elam        823.15
23 A Ellison     821.06
24 M Shellim     820.78
25 T Shaw        818.47
26 P Foster      815.77
27 D Wright      815.46
28 R Lampe       800.99
29 D Watson      764.21
30 C Dorling     759.87
31 T Fu          725.73
32 I Stromberg   695.19
33 S Dorling     680.76
34 M Evans       659.14