Poor soaring conditions on day seven of the competition led to the cancellation of flying after six consecutive flying days. Conditions were slow to improve on day eight and the grid was launched late in the afternoon. Ralph Jones won the day and collected his third day winners prize. PROVISIONAL RESULTS OPEN Class NATIONALS 12/07/97 ENSTONE 05/07/97 - 13/07/97 30 Gliders Launched. 25 Gliders Passed Y. This was a 832 Point Day. Tasklength=189.6km (4 legs). Distance X=20km. Distance Y=100km. 30 Gliders Entered. 30 Gliders Participated. Wind 10 Knots at 214 Degrees. TP 0 ENSTONE - Control Tower. 12nm NW of Oxford TP 1 OXFORD EAST - A40/A4142 R'bout. 2nm E of Oxford TP 2 BURBAGE - A338/A346. 11nm NW of Andover Burbage alternative TP TP 3 CALVERT RAIL JUNCTION - Bridge W side of Rail Junction GOAL ENSTONE - Control Tower. 12nm NW of Oxford Posn. A/C Day H/C Glider Pilot Sp/Dist Overall 1st 82 832 130 Nimbus 4 Ralph Jones 90.7kph 3rd 5282 2nd 29 796 129 Nimbus 3 DT John Glossop 87.3kph 20th 3866 3rd 8 785 125 Ash 25 Peter Sheard 86.3kph 1st 5592 4th 666 777 125 ASH 25 Tony Moulang 85.5kph 25th 3295 5th 527 740 127 ASW 22 Mike Bird 82.0kph 4th 5086 6th 929 697 125 Nimbus 3 DM Ted Lysakowski 77.9kph 19th 3994 7th R28 695 114 Ventus CT Mike Throssell 77.7kph 6th 4862 8th BB 694 125 ASH 25 John Gorringe 77.6kph 9th 4343 9th W22 692 127 ASW 22 (24m) Derek Taylor 77.4kph 8th 4508 10th 933 686 112 ASW 20 CL Ken Stephenson 76.8kph 26th 3232 11th S22 685 127 ASW 22 John Giddins 76.8kph 28th 2928 12th R30 682 114 Ventus B Tony Mountain 76.5kph 24th 3299 13th 176 680 129 Nimbus 3T David Innes 76.3kph 2nd 5507 14th 942 671 125 ASH 25 Richard Smith 75.5kph 10th 4301 15th 315 666 108 Duo-Discus Chris Rollings 75.0kph 13th 4158 16th 345 656 129 Nimbus 3 Richard Kalin 74.1kph 7th 4529 17th 599 640 115 Nimbus 2 CWL Adrian Hatton 72.5kph 17th 4057 18th 24 630 114 Ventus CT Derek Smith 71.5kph 23rd 3367 19th 783 600 115 LAK-12 Kevin Pickering 68.7kph 29th 2914 20th 48 594 126 Nimbus 4 DT David Findon 68.1kph 15th 4095 21st 827 540 115 Nimbus 2B Chris Teagle 63.0kph 22nd 3606 22nd 196 478 113 ASW 20 BL Ken Hartley 57.2kph 11th 4290 23rd 758 418 114 Ventus C Paul McLean 51.4kph 18th 4011 24th 148 188 115 LS 6C (17.5m) Tony Burton 103.2kms 21st 3675 25th 171 175 125 ASH 25 Michael Thick 96.0kms 14th 4148 26th 925 141 125 ASH 25 Mike Foreman 78.0kms 16th 4085 26th FWW 141 125 ASH 25 Max Kirschner 78.0kms 27th 3040 26th 156 141 128 ASH 25 B Russell Cheetham 78.0kms 5th 5051 26th 108 141 125 ASH 25 Peter Harvey 78.0kms 12th 4190 26th E11 141 115 Nimbus 2C Stephen Ell 78.0kms 30th 2801 Ken Sparkes, BA Competition Director, BGA Open Class National Championships BGA Competition Scoring Program by Specialist Systems Ltd. Email: tnp@spsys.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------- Access provided by: Guenther Eichhorn | gei@cfa.harvard.edu Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA CPL,ASMELS,IA,Glider,CFI | Pitts S-2A: N1GE DC-3 type rating | Flying is the Pitts See: http://acro.harvard.edu/IAC and: http://acro.harvard.edu/SSA