Ramon Morillas & Dani Crespo lead after 4 tasks

The Spanish pilots are on top of the general results in the footlaunched and paratrike solo classes, after the first 4 tasks of these Worlds. This morning, the three-times world champion and record holder Ramon Morillas took the first place in the Japanese Slalom, which he completed in a mere 54 seconds (Ramon is the current holder of the world record of speed in this task) ex-aequo with Slawomir Turczewski (POL), with Frantisek Salava (CZ) on 3rd place. In paratrike, Spain’s champion Daniel Crespo completed the slalom in 58 seconds taking the first place before Tomasz Kudaszewicz (POL, 2nd) and Alfonso Redondo (ES, 3rd). Spain is leading the ranking by Nations in the PL1 category and is 2nd in PF1 (foot-launched solo) behind France (1st), with the UK on 3rd place. See the Results here.
This afternoon the 5th task was completed in smooth conditions, a turnpoint hunt with limited fuel (3kg). Ramon was again on top with 14 marks after more than 2 hours flying – Mathieu Rouanet did 12. The results are still in process.
The atmosphere here has suffered the effect of the continuous protests and complaints from the top teams that are determined to fight these Worlds both in the air and at the offices… So far with sportsmanship. Today there were new complaints, one of them from the Austrian PL2 team against the Spanish PL2 team for supposedly receiving assistance from another pilot on the field, and although no proofs were presented the claim was accepted and the points of the task removed for the Spanish team. This morning we witnessed how the Austrians started the Japanese Slalom and after failing the second pole they went back to the start and entered again -which means zero points according to the rules as there is only one chance to do the slalom. Surprinsingly, the team received all the scoring points and even won the task! The judges at the field obviously lack knowledge of the rules. A complaint against the Austrian team was quickly on the director’s desk…
For tomorrow, the organization had planned to move everybody to another site about 1 hour from here to start a flight above the Great Wall from there. But the logistics of such move are too complicated (specially with the big PL2 trikes) so the plan was changed to a Cloverleaf slalom and a Contract Navigation. The buses will leave at 4:30 am to the field.
More tomorrow, good night…