Steph will be running this weekends event as Paul & Lee are unable to attend, so please give a hand etc. Depending on numbers it might just be a test session
June 9th – Round 4 – last chance to test before Nationals
June 22nd/23rd MPBA Championship ”Come on you Ospreys”
July 14th – Round 5
July 21st – ELECTRA Club at Althorne
August 25th – Round 6 and end of Season chat/meeting
September 8th ELECTRA Club at Althorne
I have just been contacted via email by the Press Complaints Commssion (DON) and I need to make some corrections to my last post…
Few mistakes:
Will is Vilinta Kuras, not Karas, which would translate into War! 🙂
Bart wasn’t using tenschock boat, it was his old Speedman! Now my information about the boat Bart was using came this week from Rafael of Tenshock – well Don was there so I am going with Don on this one.
And Michael Dahm, he had a lucky group with only three boats finishing all the time! and Don had a full heat of 6 boats, but Don is determined to catch him.
Well that puts the world to rights… goodnight
Well this year only a couple of “Ospreys fled the coop” and headed for Germany and that was Donatas Ceponis (Don) who competed in Eco Expert and came a very credible second behind Michael Dahm (of Germany). When we say this was Michael’s home lake – we mean home lake, his back garden steps lead onto the lake at Moers…so I guess he had home advantage for testing.
Don also competed in Mono 2 and finished 5th, 4th was Randolf Schmid for those who do not know he is MR RASCH who is the boatbuilder as per the boats that Mark Shipman, Lee and Paul use in mono 2. The class winner was Bart Van Geyt (European Champ) using the new Tenshock boat.
Along with Don on the trip was another of the Lithuanian racers – young Will (Karas Vilintas) who won the junior competition (second year running)and came 4th in the seniors as well!!
So well done to our International racers
Once again we were very lucky with the weather. Lovely sunshine and hardly any cloud all day, so hats and T- shirts all around. We had an international meeting with some of the best racers from Lithuania racing with us. (well Don Will & Mantas) Good to see them again, and good luck for Moers next week
Results
Mono 2
1st Paul Heath – 56 laps
2nd Don – 52 laps
3rd Mark Shipman – 46 laps
4th Ned – new racer 39 laps
5th Lee Heath – 30 laps
Eco Expert
1st Don – 75 laps
2nd Steph – 70 laps
3rd Mantas – 55 laps
4th Will – 39 laps
5th Roger Graves – 32 laps
Hydro 1
1st – Paul Upton Taylor – 47 laps
2nd – Paul Heath – 44 laps
3rd Lee Heath – 40 laps
Mono 1
1st Mark Shipman – 52 laps
2nd Lee Heath – 48 laps
3rd Paul Heath 34 laps
Ostend Ospreys 