mal gray Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 After two days of racing at the Formula 18 Worlds in Holland, Aussies, Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby have a near perfect scorecard. With 6 races concluded, the "Bashby" team have five firsts and a fifth- not bad for a world championship with one hundred and fourty entries! They head the leaderboard on 5 pts followed by: Mitch Booth/Herbert Derksen (Ned) 8 pts Christophe Mourniac/Frank Citeau (Fra) 10 pts Mischa Heemskerk/Sander De Boer (Ned) 15 pts Remko Kenbeek/Paul Brower 20 pts (Ned) After Bundy/Ashby, the next Aussies are daniel Van Kerkoff/Michael Cook 15th place (50pts) and Brad Collett/ Luke McDonald in 17th place on 51 pts. Greg Goodall/Chris Boag, after a good first couple of races,are suffering with a DNS and three twenty pointers on day two, sending them down the scoreboard to 27th place with 79 pts. Other Aussies: 35th Don Dull/ Liam Goodall (98pts) 55th David Elliott/Chris Munro (131pts) 80th Russ McDonald/ Nev Barnes (183pts) 87th Taylor Booth/Jorge Hernandez (200 pts) Go you good things! Mal Gray AUST F18 Publicity Officer [This message has been edited by mal gray (edited 13 July 2005).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mal gray Posted July 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Results for Day 5 are scarce, due to lack of wind. After the first two days of qualification racing, the competition has been split into gold and silver fleets for the remainder of the competition. Silver fleet has had two races in the finals but gold fleet's only race was abandoned. Standings so far: 1 NED 1 Kenbeek, Remco, Brouwer, Paul 2 AUS 69 Bundock, Darren, Ashby, Glenn 3 GER 123 Sach, Helge, Sach, Christian 4 NED 76 Meulen, van der, Reindert-Jan, Knol, Carina 5 FRA 1907 Mourniac, Jean-Christophe, Citeau, Franck When one more race is completed, competitors are eligible to drop a result from the finals. Bundock/ Ashby will be able to drop an uncharacteristic 35th, which currently pushes them down to second place. Other Aussies in Gold Fleet (71 boats): Goodall 14th Van Kerkoff 16th Collett 33rd Dull 55th Elliott 56th In Silver Fleet Taylor Booth is flying up the board and is now in 10th place. Russ McDonald has reportedly "pulled a heart muscle" and packed up his boat. Mal Gray F18 Aust Media Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornado Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby have successfully defended their Formula 18 World Championship. Hobie Tiger takes first and second places at World Championship. The 2005 Formula 18 World Championships were hosted by Hoek van Holland yacht club north of Rotterdam, Holland 160 Formula 18's competed from the period of 9-15 July for the prestigious World Tittle. The battle of the 10 different manufactors was clearly dominated by the Hobie Tiger taking the four of the first five overall placings. Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby got off to a fantastic start to the qualifying series winning five of the six qualifying heats and only discarding a 5th position to lead after the first two days. Bundock and Ashby were able to finish within the top 10 for the remainder of the series except for one race in shifty ligth conditions which saw the pair finish 35th. However, due to there other consistant results they were able to discard this 35th position in the final series. Bundock and Ashby went on to win the series with a score card of 5,1,1,1,1,1,6,2,35,1,5,11 to beat Mitch Booth and Herbert Derkson by 10 points. The vetran Sach Brothers finished in 3rd position ahead of Jean Christoph Mourniac and Frank Cituea. Bundock said "it is extremely pleasing to defend our tittle however the level of competition is increasing year by year.". Bundock now heads to Greece to compete in a blind and disable charity Marathon on Tornado’s before The tornado Europeans in August. World Championship list- Bundock: 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003 Olympic Tornado World Champion 2002 ISAF Multihull World Champion 2005, 2004 Formula 18 World Champion Ashby: 1996, 2002, 2004 A-Class World Champion 2005, 2004 Formula 18 World Champion Further information call Darren Bundock on +49 177 603 8084. www.darrenbundock.com Sponsored by: Marinepool, FSE Robline, Volvo Car, Ronstan, Hobie Cat. Supported by: Yachting Australia, Australian Institute of Sport, NSWIS, Australian Olympic Committee & Verein Segler Haus Wannsee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmessee Posted July 18, 2005 Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 I was once asked to go in a sailing marathon and I said no way. Then they said it was for the blind and disabled, and then I thought........ wait a minute.....! I could win this! Just kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mal gray Posted July 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2005 that went over my head! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsailor.net Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 Thats because you are vertically challenged... I would expect most things go over your head. Bundys last comment was a blind marathon he was about to attend lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mal gray Posted July 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 I did a couple of races when I was "blind" once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryl J Barrett Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 Yes at your age Mal deteriationg sight is a natural hazard (he he he) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryl J Barrett Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 It appears that spellin is at mine two ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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