Thanks Russell for scarificing your race. We will make sure you do race next time.
What the results don't say is what happened out of sight of the top mark. Around the second lap Orca and Wayne fell into a slow patch, allowing Peter C and I to leave them eating sand. Peter had the speed over me for another lap but suddenly slowed. After a few laps only Haydn and Trevor were ahead of me, and I was between 5 and 30 metres behind Trevor for about 3 laps. I was resigned to staying there for the rest of the race but he too slowed dramatically with a puncture. That left me in second place about 700 metres behind Haydn. It's lonely up the front - a new experience. With nobody to test my speed against, a few laps later I had a slow downwind run and was surprised to see 5 blokarts overtaking me near the mark. Throughout the day my upwind runs were faster than most others and I was able to peg them back in the next 5km, so Russell could see only that the placing was unchanged.
The occasional holes in the wind really put paid to the heavy weights. Another 5 knots and the 2nd to 26th placings may have been very different. It was a great race and a great beach surface. I can't wait for the next one.
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