With a bad forecast in the mountains, we moved to Lijak, where the Slovenian mountains meet the plains, with a view over the Adriatic Sea. A task was set, optimised to encourage pilots to fly in the flats instead of batting up and down the ridge but, as the start opened, a thick layer of upper cloud blotted out the sun, leaving the pilots scrabbling to keep airborne on the ridge. As the sun gradually penetrated the cloud, things livened up on the ridge and it was full speed bar time as we flew up and down the ridge before tackling the final crux of the race, which required pilots to climb high enough to glide out to the final turnpoint in the south and back to the goal. 101 pilots made goal!

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