News
- Toni Farre and Pablo Manuel win the third stage without discussion
11-09-2009
With only eight points during the stage and a zero in the landing, the crew of the EC-DNX, proclame themselves winners of the third stage in the Castellon Rally Flying Championship.
The second and third place were for the polish crews: Wiczorek, M – Osowski and Wieczorek, W. – Radomski That are also very capable to fill the podium. In fourth position we can find the spanish again Juez and Mas.
So the things are faceing the fourth and last stage with only three favourites for the podium wich are: France, Poland and Spain. Even the difficult landscape of Castellon and the hability of some of the pilots make things unpredictable until the last minute. The best crews in this stage are:
Farre - Manuel
Ochoa Lazaro, Spain
Mazurin - Shapochkn, Russia
Spain keeps its podium options10-09-2009
In the second journey of competiton , the spanish team still has options to fill the teams podium. Spain has positioned again three crews between the first eleven.
The plane crewed by Roberto Blanco and Jesus Mas achieved an excellent landing scored by zero points, which adds up to the one done the day before and assures as one of the most accurated landings.
Actually the leg demostrated that the french team gave us a big lesson . Cherioux and Le Gentil, with the F-GDDB have achieved the first place of the stage, with only 38 points.
The best landings were done by:
Blanco - Mas, Spain.
Riviere – Muller, France.
Merhi –Solomou, Cyprus.
The podium for the spanish tripulations on the first day of Championship8-09-2009
With incredible meteorological conditions the European Championship, the first clasifications give an unbeateable result for the spanish participants, wich for the moment are the ones who fill the podium. The pilot Toni Farre and his navigator Pablo Manuel, have obtained the best crono in the first leg, followed by the crew made by Ignacio Juez and Jesus J. Mas and in third place Roberto Blanco and David Mas, followed, this time, by French crew and in sixth position the first Polish crew, wich at first sight were the favourite to win.
This results, even if provisional, make predict that the spanish team has even a small chance to be on the podium.
In the precision landings, four crews made a perfect landing of 0 points. The best were:
Frere-Saquet, France
Barnes-Reynolds, G.Britain
Wieczorek – Radomsky, Poland
Kachaniak – Pawlak, Poland
The 7th European Rally Flying Championship takes off7-09-2009
The president of the F.A.I., Pierre Portman and Castellón’s mayor D. Alberto Fabra lead the opening ceremonia, which was composed by a parade of the nine participant countries and the rising of flag of the F.A.I., there were different speeches were the organitation and the F.A.I. thanked the unconditinal support that the City Council, the Castellón County Council and the Generalitat have been giving in every moment and the quality of the place for this kind of activities.
In the ceremony Pedro Cabañero, president of the GAC, and Vicente Nebot, President of the Aeroclub of Castellón, to whom we want to thank their generosity which otherwise, this wouldn’t had have been posible.
Official Competition map released
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Once the final test is finished, and suitable correcctions are done, we already dispose the Competition Map. It is almoust so good we had desired, and of course quite better respect all that's in the market now (remember that it's been made especially for us and for our competition for the official Carthographic Institute).
You can already download yourselves a copy from our web page, and note that we even improve some small things in a near future, like to make meridian and paralel lines a little bit thicker and the size of the coordenates numbers. Once these small details are done, we print ourselves the final original and send it to you. But you can start working perfectly with the one in the website.
If somebody of you had problems with downloading or printing, please let us know and we'll send a plotered copy. Once again, sorry for delay, but we were in the Institute hands all that time and you know, official entities go slow sometimes. But the result is very good.
Yours
Organicer Commitee
ERFC Castellón 2009.
Press conference took place in castellón
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The past july the 16th, was announced the official press release of the 7th European Rally Championship in Castellón
It was reported by press, radio and web media. You can see any of this reports in the following websites (in spanish).
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Welcome to our official website!!
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The European Rally Flying Championship starts on Castellon, from September 6th to 12th.
If you want to keep yourself up date about rules, schedules and all the competition stuff this is your place.
Days to go
