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Day 7 – Last day of race

Although 17 teams arrived at the finish in Santa Helena de Rodes, we had some emotions ahead.

Patrick Harvey-Collard slept very close to the finish and was the first to arrive on the final day of the race. He crossed the finish line at 07:55 in the morning.

Still full of emotion, Friedrich Blosse and Benoit Brunet-Poirier were very close.
But Benoit lost more time trying to overtake Friedrich.
So Friedrich arrived in 19th position, at 09:02. Benoit was 20th, 8 minutes later.

The final goal was scored by the Slovenian Lenart Oblak after a really long walk.

But we had some nice stories along the route.

The pilots who had already crossed the finish line had to fly or walk to the beach at El Port de la Selva.It was tricky, but in the end they made it.
However, Sebastian and Lenart ended up reaching the beach on foot.

Sebrand Warren, who had been given a penalty the day before, decided to try to reach the goal as if nothing had happened.
And he did, having surprised some of the staff hiding at the goal when he arrived.

Florian Serra also reached the TP5-Val de Núria at the end of the day (20:30).

Some other teams decided to walk until the time limit at 21:00. So Michal Radzicki and Ben Hodgson were the 2 teams that finally closed this X-Pyr 2024.


Day 6 – Summary of the day

Today was a day of halves, those at the front mostly walked to goal as the seabreeze acted as a wall to stop any flying in the final section of the race. The heat made the final hike brutal. In the end, nine more teams made the end of the race at Stanta Helena de Rodes. Lars Meerstetter was first. He told the race organisation that he would arrive at 8am, and with impecctable Swiss punctuality, he arrived exactly on time. Although 8am is usually considered a little early for cava, the team definetely deserved it!

He was followed into goal by Morane Montavon, Thomas Friedrich, Noé Court, Davide Sassudelli, Stanislav Mayer, Gabriel Jansen, Sebastian Weber, Jared Scheid and finally, 25 minutes before the end of the day, Austrian Markus Waltl.

After Noé and Tommy’s penalisations the day before, they did really well to arrive so soon. Standa Mayer has now reached goal at every edition he has entered. Gabriel Jansen, who has only been flying for three years, sold his car to fulfil his dream of competing in his race. His team of novices where understandably emotional and celebrated in style.

Some stats on yesterday, the top three for covering distance yesterday were Sebastian Weber (91.9 km) , Florian Serra (97.2 km) and Sebrand Warren (110.2 km). Unfortunately, Sebrand was penalised at the end of the day and has incurred a 14 hour sanction, which will end his race as it is applied at the end of the next rest period and as Saturday is the final race day, he will not be able to continue.

The weather in the centre and back of the race remained challenging, with pilots making little progress.

Adrian Pochiu and Pascal Vallee and still battling forward, Joao Veiga is on the point of reaching TP3, having recovered sufficiently from his incident a couple of days ago. Malo Richard is still in France Spaniards Ingigo Ais and David Ferrer have passed TP 4 and are heading to TP 5 Vall de Nuria.

The teams expected in goal tomorrow (Day 7) are Patrick Harvey-Collard, Friedrich Blosse, Benoit Brunet-Poirier and Lenart Oblak. We will bring you videos of the arrivals s they come.

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