F3F french championship

Last week-end was the 2010 F3F french championship on the VKR slopes (Laurac, slope A). The weather forecast were very pessimistic with no wind or very little wind. After a Friday on the slope waiting for the wind, we finally got some good wind on Saturday and Sunday to complete 14 rounds with 34 pilots.


Conditions were challenging with, as usual, some nice thermals, allowing to fly some sub 40s.
I started very well the competition, winning round 1, then staying in the top 2 and finish at the 1st position the saturday evening.

On sunday, I was the first pilot to fly the 6 next rounds, and to be honest it was an handicap because each time, with the 5 minutes interruption between each round, it was nearly impossible to read the air before to launch. I did everything I could to keep my title, but Andreas Fricke was very strong and did no mistake.

At the end, I'm Vice-champion with 991 Points over 1000. I'm disappointed to failed so close to the victory, but on another hand, I'm happy for Andreas who really deserved his victory, flying very cleanly, handling the pressure very well. Andreas makes a nice Champion !



The results are the following (including the evolutive ranking, round by round)

Général	Points	FAI / 1000	Pilote	Dossard	M1	M2	M3	M4	M5	M6	M7	M8	M9	M10	M11	M12	M13	M14
1	11754	1000	FRICKE Andreas	19	4	1	1	2	2	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	11653	991	RONDEL Pierre	10	1	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
3	11263	958	MARECHAL Alexis	15	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	5	4	3	3	3	3	3
4	11071	942	PLATON Pierre	13	2	8	14	11	9	5	7	7	10	8	8	7	4	4
5	10944	931	RINGENBACH Thibaud	1	17	15	12	9	6	10	4	3	3	5	4	4	5	5
6	10811	920	GABANON Aubry	21	9	21	25	26	26	21	24	18	13	11	11	10	10	6
7	10811	920	MERVELET Matthieu	33	13	20	23	24	23	23	17	20	12	12	13	11	9	7
8	10804	919	FOUCHER Jean-Luc	27	12	6	6	13	11	9	10	13	11	10	9	6	8	8
9	10774	917	BORDES Olivier	7	31	30	21	10	10	11	16	17	22	22	15	8	7	9
10	10759	915	DELARBRE Thomas	4	21	9	8	18	15	8	6	6	6	4	5	5	6	10
11	10670	908	CARRION José	16	14	7	4	7	13	16	11	12	17	16	14	15	15	11
12	10617	903	KREBS Arnaud	6	15	11	26	28	27	28	20	22	20	21	12	12	17	12
13	10586	901	COHEN Allan	32	22	29	29	27	24	26	26	21	19	17	19	14	12	13
14	10575	900	HOURS Fred	12	3	4	5	8	5	12	13	9	9	14	16	18	16	14
15	10539	897	TIRAND Yves	31	27	27	18	5	12	4	5	4	5	6	6	9	11	15
16	10521	895	MONET Olivier	14	32	23	9	6	4	7	12	8	7	7	7	13	13	16
17	10468	891	DEGUELLE Jean-Bastien	24	16	14	24	25	19	24	21	25	23	20	22	17	14	17
18	10422	887	LANES Philippe	34	8	12	17	15	14	15	14	14	14	15	18	19	21	18
19	10369	882	GRANDSEIGNE Cedric	23	7	5	10	19	16	6	9	10	8	9	10	16	18	19
20	10369	882	MEYER Sebastien	11	24	10	16	23	21	17	15	11	15	19	21	22	19	20
21	10290	875	SIMIAND Fred	18	11	13	15	21	22	19	18	16	16	13	17	20	20	21
22	10215	869	LOMBARDO Laurent	2	20	22	20	4	7	13	8	15	18	18	20	21	22	22
23	10120	861	ETCHART Michel	3	26	28	27	20	20	22	25	19	21	24	24	23	23	23
24	10080	858	KIEFER Renaud	28	6	19	22	22	25	25	27	27	26	23	23	24	24	24
25	9870	840	LEMONNIER Thiery	8	34	31	30	33	31	29	29	29	29	29	28	26	26	25
26	9869	840	FAVRE Laurent	17	23	16	11	12	8	20	22	23	25	28	27	25	27	26
27	9793	833	DIATTA Pierre	9	25	24	31	32	32	30	31	31	31	31	30	30	30	27
28	9778	832	DELARBRE Serge	22	19	25	28	30	28	27	28	28	28	26	26	28	28	28
29	9728	828	DAUDIER Patrick	5	28	26	19	14	18	18	23	26	27	25	25	27	25	29
30	9676	823	HOUPERT Stéphane	26	10	18	13	16	17	14	19	24	24	27	29	29	29	30
31	9618	818	LANES Sebastien	25	30	33	33	34	33	33	33	32	32	32	32	32	32	31
32	9423	802	GIRAUD Stéphane	29	33	32	32	31	30	31	30	30	30	30	31	31	31	32
33	4686	399	PLATON Thierry	35	29	34	34	29	29	32	32	33	33	33	33	33	33	33
34	2461	209	LANOT Didier	30	18	17	7	17	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	34

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