Day 10 (last day)

An exciting end to the comp in the 18m class where John was in with a show for the top spot. He needed to gain about 120pts on the Polish leader Karol. To do this he really needed a good showing on a 1,000 point day. The day started off with task A of nearly 400km which would have been ideal. Unfortunately as it stayed blue until nearly 1pm and the task was progressively shortened from 400km to 300km to 250km. This meant the day was always going to be devalued which made John's task even harder.

As it turned out John had a pretty good day in 10th and the Polish weren't so flash back in 31 and 32. So as the results from the finishers came in John was in the lead by 7 points. Unfortunately in 18m there were a number of landouts and as these results came in the speed points for the day began to reduce and  John's lead was cut from 7 points, to 4 points, then 3 points, then it was 1st equal and eventually the points dropped to 7 behind Karol. So outlanders were the undoing of an almost great second victory for John at Leszno but second is still a superb result!

John nervously waiting for the final results to come in