Round 2 of the KPT F3F

Nine blokes arrived at the meeting point greeted by overcast skies and a reasonable breeze. Actually there were ten arrivals, but Andrzej has had a massive time at work lately so he just popped up to deliver the course equipment and then went home to recuperate ready for another smashing week at work. So the nutty nine competitors made our way up to the West slope of Mickeys and got the course set up in double-quick time (thanks for that!) and we were off and running.
John Treble was first cab off the rank and he had an absolute blast of a day bettering his PB twice along the way with his best time of the day being a 43.46. His Extreme was screaming and he kept raving about how good it was all day.
Bob Runyeard deserves a special mention as this was his first ever F3F event and he was competing with a Typhoon 2m model. He managed to set his PB at 43.26 getting second place in that round only beaten by Martin Newnham. We were all extremely impressed and are sure that he is now well and truly hooked and will be back for more!
Phil Taylor also needs a special mention for being the only person I have ever witnessed doing a 72 second run in 35 second air! After cutting twice, he decided to display his flair and creativity with an aerobatic influenced F3F run. I also believe he was the only person on the day to fly three models with the wizard being the fastest for him, but ‘Fletcher’ definitely being the most eye-catching.
Adrian Bedford and I (Clayton Landells, just in case you didn’t know) had a really close race today. For the first round it was Skorp F3B verses Skorp DSL. In round two I had a brain fart that resulted in my Skorpion clipping the ground and cartwheeling ¾ of the length of the course bringing out the Acacia II for the remainder of the day. I was gradually extending my lead over Ade most of the day and in the last three rounds Ade made huge gains on me and was as close as damn is to swearing to beating me to fourth place overall leaving him in fifth.
Stu Brookes flew really consistently all day to finish in sixth place followed by John Treble, BobbyR and Phil Taylor.
The top three positions were filled by the usual suspects of Joel West, Martin Newnham and Simon Thornton.
Simon was hot straight out of the blocks, first flying his Alliaj HM and then giving his Fosa a good thrashing for the rest of the day. After taking eight of the first nine rounds he was looking untouchable and did not relinquish the lead at all, eventually winning ten of the fourteen rounds flown. Outstanding display by a masterful pilot!
Martin and Joel had more of a battle for the two lower podium places and were both very keen to get the fourteenth round in to get the second discard and give themselves the best chance of second place. In the end there was only a few points in it with Martin just pipping Joel for second place.
Round winners other than Simon (WITH TEN!!!!!!!!!!!) were Martin with two rounds and Joel and myself with one each. Martin also flew the fastest time of the day with a blistering 33.08! The finishing positions are below and the spreadsheet is available under the 'files' tab on the F3F yahoo group  for your perusal and enjoyment.
Thanks to Simon for helping me with the CD duties and everyone else for helping to keep the day running smoothly and helping where required. I really enjoyed the day today and am looking forward to the next one already.
I will add some photos and video later in the week.


1  S Thornton          12811.47   1000.00
2  M Newnham       12219.55    953.79
3  J West                12199.25    952.21
4  C Landells          11311.14    882.89
5  A Bedford          11284.06    880.77
6  S Brookes          10893.21    850.27
7  J Treble              10553.34    823.74
8  B Runyeard        10242.69    799.49
9  P Taylor             10003.29    780.80