Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

[glider90]

The following planes are on the ramp to start the medallion in 30 minutes. Cool and Windy on the field.

Precious Metal
Super Corsair
Air Bisquit
Shishka Suka
Lady-Jo
Sparky
Polar Bear

Looks like the top six will get to rest today...according to the 2006 program only positions #7 thru #27 race on Thursday.

Jim

[SCEPTER]

Re: Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

cool, I'll take pm for the win.

[glider90]

Re: Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

Gambling instincts like that and not in Reno?

[KB Adkins]

Re: Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

Thanks Glider 90. Appreciate the info. from the ramp. Sorry to hear about Dago, but we'll take PM and the Griffon as a worthy sub. for the Mustang fans

[Peashooter]

Re: Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

Is there still "eye candy" in the Dago pit?

[matt]

Re: Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

scepter, you just lost buddy. 1st place f2g, 2nd place precious metal.

ron did have to make up the entire field though...

*correction, f2g made a deadline cut, my apologies.

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Re: Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

*correction, f2g made a deadline cut, my apologies.

Does that put PM in first??? If Ron holds in there he could do pretty good between 405-410 in the gold.

[Sky Critter]

Re: Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

It looked to me like Ron tapped up the throttle each lap during the race. He would have caught Odegard in another lap. Lots of film crew guys in the PM pit.

[glider90]

Re: Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

Perhaps Ron 'let' Super Corsair win so he would not have to race PM until Saturday? He can still theoretically bump into the gold from a bronze start on Saturday.

The race progression out of the Medallion is a bit confusing, but all explained in the rules on the RARA web site (which also has all the race results from today posted, and viewable by me for the first time).

Anyway all of the top 27 will race (or at least be eligible to race) again Sunday. The further back you finish in the Medallion the longer you wait to be 'bumped in', as the heat races grow in size each day, to three heats of 9 for Sunday.

1st place Medallion flies the bronze Friday (#57, or #38 with the deadline infraction on #57).
2nd thru 4th (#38 or #57, #35, #44) Medallion will bump into the 8 plane Bronze on Saturday .
5th thru 7th Medallion will bump into the 9 plane Bronze on Sunday.

Of course attrition and non-starts can jumble this further. Make sense? It all might by Sunday.

At least we had a clean day of racing today, no major maydays, it seems everyone is still in
~Jim

[matt]

Re: Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

Does that put PM in first??? If Ron holds in there he could do pretty good between 405-410 in the gold.

it does, it was a pretty gnarly deadline cut. but i was VERY surprised at how much bob through the throttle up on her, that f2g was MOVING.

[glider90]

Re: Thursday UNL medallion lineup...

So what happens to 57? Will she still be racing come Saturday when I can FINALLY get there???

Should be, as long as she stays healthy. RARA currently shows #57 winning the medallion, but either way the top four in the medallion will be on the course Saturday.
The only question right now is who races Friday, #57 or #38