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Fastest Glass!!!! Race 39 Brings home win….

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Glasair that is! Jeff LaVelle and his one man crew Grant Samanski have methodically refined their Glasair III over the past 4 years and in 2012 it paid off. While Jeff did not offically record speeds over 400 mph, he was unofficially clocked at 403mph during his final Gold race. Keeping last year winner John Parker at bay on Sunday, Jeff will bring home the 2012 Gold win and quite allot of nasayers about just how fast the Glasair III can go.

John Parkers Crowned Sport Class Winner 2011

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There is a little good news that can be gleaned from the September air races and that is we won the only Sport Gold Race that was completed. The Thursday race was canceled when Mike Dacey had an engine failure on takeoff and put his Venture down in the infield. The good news is that Mike is back home in San Louis Obispo facing a long recovery. Thanks to many of you who donated to fly him back in a King Air arranged by Kevin Eldredge. As much as I would like to, of course, it is impossible to avoid touching on the unpredictable tragic event with our friend Jimmy Leeward that happened on Friday just after we won the Sport Gold. Our condolences go out to everyone affected by this tragic accident.

Jon Sharp Retires

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After 32 years of pylon racing success, and innovation, aIr racing legend Jon Sharp, and team leader of Nemesis® Air Racing is “Callin’ It A Day” by announcing his retirement from pylon racing, He’s walking away as the winningest pilot in the history of Air Racing.

Jon and his Team holds many of the most cherished records in air racing, including speed records on every race course flown in both the Formula 1 “Nemesis®”, and the most recent Sport/Super Sport class NemesisNXT®. His Team’s prestigious pylon racing resume includes winning a record 15 Reno Air Racing National Championships.

Sport Class at Oshkosh

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While the race was a bust due to weather at the finish line we all had pleanty of fun just getting to Dayton for the Airventure Cup Race. Highlight was the two hour foour ship flight in with race 5, 13, 41, and 42. Low was my canopy deciding it didn’t want to race at the start! Check in with the Sport Class Page on Facebook for video I am working on of flight out from California. Great fun.

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Sport Class Racing Forum Goes Live

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Air Racers and Air Race fans, come check out the NEW Sport Class Air Race Forum. Ask questions, submit posts, or just follow the progress of all the teams. We are looking for your input whether its your experience air racing, building sport class aircraft, or just sharing information about the sport.

You can read the forum info without joining the website but once you sign up as a user you can participate in all the forums and even run your own topic thread.

myairport_bannerClick on banner ad link on the left and this will send you to www.myAirport.com Expert Forums. Once there you can read the posts or Join by simply clicking on the yellow “Join” tab at the top and set up you account. Its easy, its quick and its free totally free…..

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