8.15 AM;Good morning on day 12.
Would this competition finish with the most-total-points in the overall scores???
I remember that Uvalde 1991 had 12 days this year we hope for 13, though the weather for Saturday seems not to be the real great Uvalde weather, we might see /feel rain, BUT ….that does n’t nt mean pilots cannot fly. Let’s wait and see!A thick layer/deck of stratus here but it will burn off soon  and we might look ahead at a great day AGAIN.

Tasks today:
15 m. racing task of 618.4 km
18 m. racing task from 652.9 km
open racing task from 685.1 km

grid time 12.10   earliest launch 12.40

Back to yesterday first;A great day for the JS.1’s, from 6 gliders in the top 6 in 18 m. 5 were JS 1.
And in open class the brothers Goudriaan won also in JS1. Great result for South Africa.
Oscar flew 573 km and Laurens 572; 1000 and 987 points and for Pete Harvey on spot 3 558 km and 961 points. One infringement of a forbidden zone.
Overall; Laurent is still on spot 1 , every day from day 1  onwards, exceptional….then Michael, Tassilo, Oscar[ won the last 2 days!] and Pete all of them have over 10.000 points

In 18 m. UK pilot Russell Cheetham just beat Dutch pilot Ronald Termaat; 515.2 km in 145.3 and 523 km with 145.2 km./h. !!!!! When Ronald looked at the screen here yesterday evening, he wondered where could have lost those few sec. and 3 points.
Overall the scores are the same Zbigniew still on spot 1 followed by Mike,  Lucasz, Russell and Michael Streit, ALL of them in the 10.000 range!!!! Ronald is just under it on spot 6 with Robert [SI] only 2 points behind him. Wow, exciting last 2 days!!!!

In 15 m. class very young and promesing Czech pilot Radek [AX] got the 1000 points for 491.3 km. in time 3.45 on the dot!!!He was followed by the 2 French pilots Christophe Ruche and Louis Bouderlique, 2 times Ventus and 1x ASG 29 in this top 3.
Overall Sebastian is on a firm spot 1 . Matthias is 2d and both are the only 2 in the 10.000 range. Got a mail this morning from Ryszard from Poland with the next text and I gladly share it with you:
“Sebastian Kawa 4 times WGC Champion, 3 times Grand Prix World Champion.”

I wrote straight away back to our Polish friend for some more info and he came back straight away to me. Great that people share the thoughts after reading. Pleased with that here is the next reaction and I do not have to explain to you what an ace-pilot Sebastian is.

—In 2002 Sebastian was in Uvalde.He didn’t have a glider first 2 contest days !
This is what Charlie Sprat was writing :http://www.ssa.org/members/contestreports/ContestResultsFullDetail.asp?contestId=122&ContestDetailId=1323&ContestName=World+Class+National+Contest
And this is final score : http://www.ssa.org/members/contestreports/ContestResultsFullDetail.asp?contestId=122&ContestDetailId=1333&ContestName=World+Class+National+Contest

Next year he became World Champion.
2003 World Class Champion,Nitra Slovakia
2004 Club Class Champion,Elverum Norway
2006 Club Class Champion, Vinion France
2010 Standard Class Champion, Prievidza Slovakia—

So you are totally updated now! Good to see the news from Charlie as well, we do miss him!!!! And THANK YOU to Ryszard!!!

Briefing today:
All nice goodies on the tables as tequila, a poster from the WGC and a tiny little fabulous [made by one of the Litt brothers ]  glider to hang in the car.
Another good day memorised Ken good distance , good speed.

BIG news about the DUST which was “horrible” yesterday.This morning at 7 they sprayed the launch area with 98.000 gallon of water. THAT should HELP!

The tuggies were introduced and one of them is a very young and very enthusiastic young man flying BABY BLUE. Only 19 years old and helping out after towing also with getting the gliders quickly of the run/taxi way!! Good on him.
We know now the men behind the names as p.e. Red Barron, Yellow Ag wagon and Yellow Jacket.
More intro’s today as the recovery team was upfront as well. Both got HUGE applause. All volunteers are doing a great job and some are “re-cycled”and do more jobs.

Med dr Hartley told us that we might not feel it but we are tired after so many days in the hot sun and dust and flying long days.He is proud on everybody BUT warns that we are all effected even when you do not feel it. There will be stress  making you sleep less good ..making you a bit cranky…making your brain work less good. SO BE CAREFULL the last 2 days!

Chief steward had BIG/SAD news. The FAI flag was stolen[again] IT HAS TO BE BACK as it is PROPERTY of the FAI and he will investigate this afternoon in all team ” huts”… to bring a full report tomorrow to CD KEN.

MOST IMPORTANT the WEATHER by DAN the [weather]MAN.
Uvalde is pretty unique and by now we found that out as well. A thick layer of stratus over Uvalde this morning and at 12 it is gone and we have blue skies and great looking white high clouds and…they are forecasted to stay for the day.
—max altitude 7500 up to 8500 later in the day
—max temperature 38.5 dgr.
—lift 2.5 to 3.5 m/s. with the best lift between 5 and 7 CDT
—wind less then yesterday though you dont feel it.10-15k
—trigger temp at 32,5 dgr. C.

TOMORROW will be a concern with unstable conditions with a big possibility of thunderstorms. BUT….it still looks ” we”  can fly.

Time already for the sniffer to go up  and the message after , that

 the CD sticks to the 12.40 first launch at day 12!!!!!!!

More about the lovely Italian evening later. A bit slow today…