Video Update – Day 6
News from the back, middle and front of the race and we have a winner!
Tag: Day6
Update Day 6
Withdrawals: Sadly, Xevi Bonet and Sergi Claret have withdrawn from the competition.
The livetracking was out for an hour this evening because of hackers but was restored in time to see the big finish this evening. If you are looking for scores, these can be found on the web site at https://x-pyr.com/score/
Only these are the official scores. The live tracking is not used for official scoring.
News!
This morning we spoke to Team Curran, Patrick Sieber, Keith Paterson, Mikolaj Kocot and Rich Binstead who were all heading up to TP 3 at Peña Montañesa. All were hiking up to get the turn point and then hoped for a good day. Yuji Emoto flew a blinder late in the evening yesterday and made up much ground on the other athletes ahead of him. He hiked a different way and he and Reta Reiser are leading the pack to TP 4.
For the second day running they were blessed with high skies, lighter winds and good conditions – which to the regular pilot means funky thermals, rough stuff and epic take offs (to quote the pilots).
Greg Hamerton has also progressed and along with Nicholas Hayes and Johannes Helleland – all left TP3 in their wake. David Liano is also close to TP 3.
The top leg of the X seems to have been not easy for almost all the pilots. After a couple of days, Lars Meerstetter made it past TP5. David Corpas and James Elliot are 2km and 6km short respectively and also almost there but Fabian Umbricht, Andreas Viehbock, Logan Walters and Thibault Voglet (who had a broken line, as did Andreas) are along the course line. Cedar Wright whom we met pounding the asphalt yesterday has joined them on the 60.9km leg.
Noe Court and Jordi Vilalta have cracked TP6 at El Corronco and are buzzing along nicely, doubtless grateful for the strongish westerly tailwinds.
Tim Alongi and Simon Oberrauner have tagged TP7 Pic del Moros and Noe Court is on his way there.
But the BIG news is that this morning Pierre Remy was in the lead by about 22km over Maxime Pinot and Chrigel Maurer. They started flying at 8 am – it’s very unusual to have the right conditions so early in the day – and have flown for 11 hours today. It was neck and neck for much of the day until Maxime Pinot flew to the south of Canigo and looked set to cross the line first. The live tracking went out and we had no idea what was happening until we contacted Chrigel’s team to be told he’d found a thermal and was heading towards ESS at 1500m with a glide angle of 12:1.
Action stations as everyone shot off to St Helena de Rodes to set the scene and to set up cameras and prepare to broadcast live. We can announce that Christian (Chrigel) Maurer is the winner of the X-Pyr 2022!
Tomorrow more arrivals at the Finish!
Interview Team Paterson – Day 6
Darren Goodlad gives us another update on the team’s progress.
Interview Team Sieber – Day 6
Manon Sieber gives us an update on Patrick’s progress.
Interview Team Binstead – Day 6
Conan Burch, recaps the week, the team spirit and his hightlights.
Interview Rich Binstead – Day 6
Rich, from Team Australia reviews his week and tells us about his experiences.
Interview – Rob Curran Day 6
Rob Curran tells us about his past few days and his adventure sleeping on the mountain.
DAY 6 – UPDATE
Today Stanislav Mayer arrived at St Helena de Rodes and was able to
complete his flydown to the raft with Maxime Pinot. Nelson de Freyman
arrived a few hours later. Congratulations to both!
Eduardo Garza pushed hard yesterday and managed to get to the
turnpoint at Canigo (TP7). He decided to sleep on the mountain to
give himself maximum chance to fly and get to St Helena de Rodes and
Port de la Selva before the race ends at 10pm tonight. We are
confident he will do it, so stay tuned for our fifth arrival!
In the battle of the gaggle between TP 5 and 6 Haydon Grey triumphed,
getting to Pedra Forca and beyond. Ignacio Aravelo was the sole
competitor to choose a southerly route. He decided to follow the
better weather and fly routes he is very familiar with from multiple
competition tasks he has flown in this region. It worked! He has
over-taken a number of pilots who stuck to the more direct course
line. He is currently south of TP 6. The remainder of the gaggle are
within reach of the turn point and we expect Keller, Koren, Bramfitt,
Coconea and Vuirpillot to reach it soon. Chsing this group hard are
Williams and Cannell.
Amazing progress was made by Linde, Ramos and Kernstein. All started
around/before TP4 and flew across the main spine of the Pyrenees.
Kernstock took off very late and made excellent progress. Linde,
Ramos, Veiga and Kernstock are all close to TP5 now.
Unfortunately, Centa had an incident which hurt his hand. this
impeded his flying yesterday, but be is currently hiking and still in
the race. Gold was finally able to fly… tagging TP 4 he flew in the
direction of TP5. His tracker is not currently transmitting, so we
can’t bring you news of his exact location. Andrews and Shapiro both
hiked up Turbon (TP4) and camped overnight to make the most of an
early flight. Umbricht and his whole team are still sick with food
poisoning. They took a day off to try to recover and hope to be able
to make progress on the final day of the race.
Mario Moreno’s race can be summed up in 5 words: tummy, tree,
torrent, technical (issues) and thunderstorms. He has been battling
with gastroenteritis, car problems and thunderstorms. He landed in a
tree and Angel, his supporter, had to cross a ford to assist him.
After a three hour tree rescue (he was unharmed), they tried to
recross the ford. It was now a fast-flowing river! Stranded on the
other side they had to overnight on the far side and were towed out
by a friendly local. Despite all their hardships, Mario is showing
massive determination to complete the race and fly far today. A true
competitor! Lukas Thoeni is also digging deep. He has walked more
than 60km each day the last couple of days and is determined to get
to TP4 and beyond. Good luck to all!
The forecast is excellent for the final day and we should see lots of
action. And the forecast is for cloudbase up to 4000m – not lower as
our roving reporter Judith Mole mistakenly said in the update video. Sorry!
