Adelles Belles 2010: The results are in!!

Tonight we went out to the awards banquet, full of anticipation for the final results! The evening began as usual with speeches, and then handing out of race certificates and plaques to each team that competed, but finally the awards part started. The collegiate trophy went to Purdue, who got the highest score of the eight collegiate teams competing. The award for the lowest score without penalty went to Sandi Terkelson and Heather, the team who got stuck for two days at the first stop in Georgia, and still heroically made it through by the finish deadline on Friday! They got a big round of applause. There were also leg prizes, but Mary and I didn't get any of those, which wasn't a good sign! Then finally the top ten awards were given out. We knew we weren't in the top ten, but were eager to see who was, and we were delighted that our baby birds Barbara Para and Laurie Zaleski came in sixth with a score of 10.271!! many congratulations to them. What was even more awesome was that our great friend Laura and partner Joyce came in second - we couldn't be happier for them. And finally, Terry Carbonell and her team came in first. Terry is a tireless worker for the Air Race Classic, and a great friend to new racers, and her victory was well deserved, with a 16 point score which was well ahead of anyone else.

So how did we do? Well, out of 51 teams competing, of whom 50 completed the race, with scores ranging from 16.0 to -19.16, we came 21st with a score of 8.2. So we flew a good clean fast race, which we finished successfully, had an absolute blast in the process, and ended up with a respectable score in the top half of the pack. We are happy with this result!

Tomorrow we leave early for the short flight back to PA, and the 2010 Air Race Classic will officially end for us. Till next year!!

The top ten race teams!