{"id":305,"date":"2015-09-13T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/09\/13\/gillette-series-final-race-2nd-septemeber\/"},"modified":"2015-09-13T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T15:59:00","slug":"gillette-series-final-race-2nd-septemeber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/09\/13\/gillette-series-final-race-2nd-septemeber\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillette Series Final Race 2nd Septemeber"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With a light NW wind about 9mph but variable in speed and direction, Roland S set a first beat to 5 then 2,8,6,7 and back through the start. <\/span><\/div>\n
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There were 21 starters for the last race of the Wednesday evening series and series leader Ian C (Supernova) was first back through the start line followed by Curtis (Laser), Newton (Solo), Dave L (Laser), Luke (Laser) and Ellen (Radial). There were three Leaders out prior to their National Championship at the coming weekend and Hugh & Hadey were leading this fleet in15th place with Sally & Ann 20th<\/sup> and Tracey & Amy 21st<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the end of the second lap the three leaders were the same but Luke had got past Dave L and Andrew (Laser) had moved up to 6th<\/sup>. Julian (Solo) and Alistair S (Laser) both gained a place to move to 8th<\/sup> and 9th<\/sup> respectively. Adrian (Vago) had gained two places  <\/span>and Sally & Ann had gained a place and were now right on the transom of Hugh & Hadey. Further back Rick (Laser) had also moved up one place. William (Topper) and Tracey & Amy received the finish gun at the end of this lap and Adrian retired..<\/span><\/div>\n
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By the third lap Dave L had passed both Luke and Newton to move up to 3rd<\/sup>. Sylvia (Laser) had moved up to 6th<\/sup> and Andrew to 7th<\/sup> pushing Julian down to 8th<\/sup> with Mike T (Laser) 9th<\/sup> and James P (Laser)  <\/span>making up a place to 10th<\/sup>.  <\/span>Alistair, Peter S (Byte), Mike A (Lightning), Sally & Ann and Hugh & Hadey were all finished at the end of this lap.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The positions at the end of the fourth and last lap were 1st<\/sup> Ian; 2nd<\/sup> Dave L; 3rd<\/sup> Curtis; 4th<\/sup> Newton; 5th<\/sup> Luke; 6th<\/sup> Sylvia.<\/span><\/div>\n
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On handicap Newton will leapfrog Dave and Curtis to take 2nd<\/sup> place.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thanks to Roland S and the OOD team of Ryan, Ken and Roland L.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The final Gillette Series Leaderboard was:<\/span><\/div>\n
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1st Ian C; 2nd<\/sup> David C; 3rd<\/sup> Newton; 4th<\/sup> Karen; 5th<\/sup> Sylvia; 6th<\/sup> Curtis  <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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With a light NW wind about 9mph but variable in speed and direction, Roland S set a first beat to 5 then 2,8,6,7 and back through the start. There were 21 starters for the last race of the Wednesday evening series and series leader Ian C (Supernova) was first back through the start line followed by Curtis (Laser), Newton (Solo),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-4V","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}