June 25, 2013  post race

We're still in Fayetteville awaiting the airplane repair and plan to head for home tomorrow. NOW for the final results.  You can go to the ARC web site and get the 2013 Air Race Classic results in the place order and also the Air Race Classic number order.  There is also a list of leg prizes.  You'll note that the top ten winners are not eligible for leg prizes.  They do that so more racers will take prizes home.  Of course the top ten winners sometimes won within the first four places on a given leg, but those prizes went instead to others a little down the line.

I know that some of you pilots will be curious what the racers were flying and you probably don't have a program.  So I'll give you a quick rundown: ARC racer #1 flew a Cirrus, #2 a Skyhawk, 3 Cherokee, 4 C.172, 5 Cardinal, 6 Cirrus, 7 Skylane, 8 Archer, 9 Skyhawk, 10 Skyhawk, 11 Skylane, 12 Skyhawk, 13 Arrow, 14 Cherokee, 15 Mooney, 16 Skylane, 17 Skylane, 18 Skylane, 20 Skylane, 21 Skyhawk, 22 Skylane, 23 Cardinal, 24 Maule, 25 Be Super, 26 Cardinal, 27 Skylane, 30 Cirrus, 31 Bonanza, 33 Cherokee, 35 C.175, 36 Skylane, 37 Dakota, 39 Skyhawk, 40, 42, & 43 Skylanes, 44 Skyhawk, 45 Skylane, 46 Be Sundowner, 47 Warior, 48 Arrow, 49 Skyhawk. You can see that it's primarily a Cessna race.  They like the Skylane because with the large fuel tanks they enjoy a range that most of the other airplanes don't have, and the speed (along with the Cirrus) to lay back and wait for anticipated tail winds. This was an extremely unusual race to have headwinds while flying west to east almost all the way.  I've never seen a race before that only the first two places got positive scores and all the rest had negatives.

And that's about it for the blog.  It was a fun and challenging race with a terrific group of women.

Gene Nora Jessen, Patty Mitchell and BJ Carter