Windsor Race Report 1

Things are starting to heat up. The TRW is open. The planes are in their respective hangers. One thing noticeable is the top 3 are being more "open" with their cowlings, literally. Few covers or closed door work on the planes. It seems that most people have figured out what the others are doing so it is not worh going to the trouble of hiding things anymore. If you haven't "got it" now, catching up is going to be difficult seems to be the attitude at the top. Further down though especially in the Americam camps, work seems a bit more frenzied. There are a lot of mid group and bottom group teams including Team Muroya, working to grab some points from the top guys and stamp their mark on the rest of the season!

All is looking good for some great racing here at Windsor.

Picture: All looks quite but inside the hangers, teams are preparing their race planes for first training tomorrow.

Windsor race getting closer!

Red Bull Air Race Team Muroya report.

For those who might wonder, "how do these high tech race planes get from race to race". Well, sometimes disassembled and flown in a jumbo jet or in a container over the ocean and sometimes they fly there. Between San Diego and Windsor the planes have gone mostly to some place to have modifications and will all converge on Windsor by June 7th.

Race 31 is typical. Some work has been done which we hope will improve our team results in the coming races. Now the plane is being flown from California to Windsor by TC Robert. Yesterday he stopped at Chandler near Phoenix for the night and was looked after by Team Chambliss. Today he has flown as far as Guthrie, Oklahoma and Race 31 is hangered at the Zivko factory, home of the Zivko Edge, together with Hannes Arch's plane. Hannes' plane was trucked there for repair from San Diego following his bird strike incident.

In a day or two Race 31 should be in Windsor after the 1900 nautical mile flight from California.

Robs self portrait at 7,500ft doing 200knots and Wind Power farm, on a farm, new Amarillo.