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Reno Saturday

Posted by Chuck on Sun Sep 15, 2002 02:13:03 AM

Today was a great day for racing. No Maydays and no one got hurt. The Seafury "September Pops" got its new engine on yesterday and was run last night. It was in the bronze race today but aborted take-off. It did not race and I have not heard from the team what problems they had. The team put in a lot of hard work to get race ready by today and and very disappointed. Tiger Detsefani's P-51 "Strega" ran its new composit engine last night and the crew was up until 0400 this morning getting the new cowlings installed. They borrowed pieces from the crashed "Miss America" airframe. Strega flew this morning for the first time since the beggining of the week. There were no sqawks and she was set to run the silver race today. This afternoon "Strega" started last in the silver and finished first, passing everyone along the way. Very exciting racing. She is now qulaified for the Gold race tomorrow and a very strong contender. John Bagley won the Bronze race in "Old Yeller" which used to belong to legendary pilot Bob Hoover. The Gold race was won by Dego Red which has been the fastest racer on the course all week. Tomorrow is the final race day as well as the most exciting. Many racers hold back until the final race to save their engines. I look for everyone to run really hard and maby a few suprises as well.

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