Well done to today’s winners: Pal TAKATS, Magdalena JANAWAY, and team Ozone.

A very tricky day today. The thermals came in long cycles, leaving the pilots alternating between waiting high for the start and scrabbling to stay up. When the start opened, we glided to the first turnpoint and back to the sunless ridge with nothing but survival on our minds. Some pilots found good climbs, but the lead gaggle opted to push on low on the ridge. Around the westerly turnpoint, things livened up, and climbs were plentiful, allowing the pilots to collect the turnpoint and return to the ridge. After that, the question was: Ridge or Flats. The ridge was good if you were above it, but those on the flank had a hard time, as cirrus almost completely blotted out the sun, leaving survival as the only option. As things improved, a race developed between those on the ridge and those pushing into wind in the flats in the weak conditions. The legendary lifty line around the goal drew us on and rewarded us with an easy glide over the last 1ten kilometres of the race. On the other hand, the ridge proved quite fast, but the finish was harder and the pilots in the flats had the easier ride to goal. What a day!

Overall Results

Well done to Tyr Goldsmith flying the BGD Tigra, who crossed the goal line three and a half minutes ahead of everyone else! However, Andreas Malecki holds onto his overall lead in the competition.
Team Gin flew fast and furiously, taking the top spot, putting their two teams in overall 1st and 2nd place, just ahead of Ozone in third place.
Vanja Eggesvik won the ladies ranking again today and is now in the lead as we go into tomorrow’s final task.
It was an amazing flying day with much stronger climbs and good lines marked by clouds. But the flatland leg past Bassano was quite treacherous with an abrupt change of conditions that left some pilots in front scrabbling to stay in the air. Those that survived were able to follow the ridge to the westerly turnpoint, before cruising easily downwind into goal.
Well done to the 91 pilots in goal.
The results for today.

Well done to today’s winners: Andreas Malecki, Summer Barham and Airtribune.

It was a Fast and Furious day with the winner flying at an average of 31 km/h!
Today promised to be even more difficult than the previous one with a thick fug of haze over the flats, but once in the air, it was clear that the thermals were much stronger and organised than expected.
The start didn’t really have many options, so everyone joined the party above the antennas above Bassano.
The 60 km route through the first two turnpoints was pretty much defined but, after that, the choice: ridge or flats, presented itself. Most pilots, including the winners, opted for the safety of the ridge, pushing out into the flats to take the turnpoint before scurrying back to the safety of the ridge.
After that, it was soar & climb along the terrain before the remarkably treacherous sinky final glide into wind to goal.

Well done to the winners Tom Hodgkin, Summer Barham and team Ozone.

A super stable start on Task 2 made it difficult to get into a good position before the start, which affected the rest of the race. The first section was a long, slow glide followed by strong ridge soaring, where Luke managed to pull ahead of the field and collect the lead-out points.
The return from the eastern turnpoint brought a big change of pace. For the first 10 km, lift was everywhere and there was barely any need to turn, but after crossing the main gap the lift became weak and slowing down was necessary. Luke stayed in front, but eased up at the valley turnpoint to allow the first gaggle to catch up and help with finding thermals.
The lead gaggle eventually caught Luke, and a group of around 10 pilots pushed on to the western turnpoint, including Aurelius, Tom, Marco, Luke, Arnold, Ross and Ulric.
The run back to the final turnpoint was fast initially, but once again required a change of gears as the day began to shut down and the ridge stopped working. Luke pushed ahead low, while the gaggle behind stopped to climb in weak lift before heading out into the valley on an optimistic final glide to goal.
Luckily, the last 10 km final glide was similar to yesterday’s conditions and lifted everyone into goal after a tense 30-minute struggle to stay airborne. Tom Hodgkin (team Gin) arrived in first place, 30 seconds ahead of Arnold Castro (team Ozone), 3rd Pal TAKATS (Zés kitchen), 4th Marco Sommerfeld (Gin 2), 5th Ross Desmond (Ozone), giving Ozone the team win.
Well done to Luke Nicol, 7th with 100% lead-out points.
A very tough day, well done to the top three ladies who all made goal: Summer Barham, Manuela Pfrunder, Agnieszka Zaborowska.
The 25 who made goal, definitely deserve their pizzas at the end of today’s 82 km task

The day got off to a difficult start, as thermals were very weak and broken and it was hard to maintain a good position before the start opened. So, when the time came we crossed the valley to take the start and turnpoint and never climbed particularly high before crossing back against the wind. After that, it was a battle to maintain on the ridge on the way down to the westerly turnpoint. Those that gained some height were able to push harder and got further ahead, but the conditions never relented, and everyone stuck on the ridge, only venturing out into the flats to get the turnpoints. On the final glide to goal, things switched and, all of a sudden, it was lift everywhere and the buoyant air brought everyone into goal well above the 200m height limit.

The weather forecast was very encouraging and an eighty km task was set. Even though the cloud remained stubbornly on the launch, we were getting reports of blue sky in the valley. Once the cloud cleared enough to launch, it became clear that the conditions were pretty poor with a pretty heavy upper cloud layer. Thoughts of optimal starts were abandoned and the best place to be was on the mountains. Once in the flats the going was very slow, and every climb was milked dry. After La Victoria, Victor Aguilera, Luis Pol and Pepe Malecki broke away directly towards Obanda. Victor and Luis maintained their lead of several kilometres through the first two turnpoints, where the vast majority of the other pilots got stuck and landed. Victor continued alone south towards Zarzal, to be eventually followed, about 25 minutes later by Carlos Lopes, Raphael Oerer and Cesar Urrego who patiently worked their way to Zarzal in the difficult conditions to eventually overfly Victor. Cesar made it furthest to seal the task win, despite Victor taking all the leading points, and this was enough for him to win the whole competition.

Results can be found here: https://airtribune.com/srs-2026-1/results

Well done to today’s winner, Luis Pol Bernal, to first lady Rasa Grigoraitiene and to team BGD
Before the start, things were looking ominous; the sky had rapidly filled in and the whole valley was shaded.
But five minutes before the start things opened up, and good climbs started popping everywhere.
The first turnpoint passed without drama, but the second turnpoint in the mountains south of Roldanillo proved more problematic, and some pilots found themselves grovelling below the low windy ridges, before managing to get established again.
After that, it was classic Roldanillo climb and glide up to the Northerly turnpoint beyond Obanda, and back down the low hills to Zarzal, where a booming climb was the last of the race. The winners left the climb very early, relying on the smoke plume from the sugar cane factory to lift them on their way to ESS and then goal.
Well done to the 69 pilots who made goal.

Well done to today’s winners, Isaac Michel, leading lady Magdalena Janaway and top team Panamerica Vuela.
Today’s task was a 62km race south with a long leg back north to goal.
The start cylinder stretched right across the valley giving options to start the race on either side of the valley.
Those who crossed the valley to take the start found that there were plenty of really good climbs and nice clouds to lurk under. But, as the start opened, 3m/s climbs turned into 0.1m/s and they had to patiently work everything that came their way. Things got weaker and more shaded until they passed Zarzal, where the shady valley suddenly started to work with birds climbing everywhere. This huge release got those on the east side of the valley really high, and the race was on between those on the west of the valley and those on the east.
However, just before the most southerly turn point the race turned into a final death glide for everyone, from east to west as peals of thunder were heard in the mountains.
The retrieve back to Roldanillo, in a range of farming vehicles, was an exchange of mud stories.
The scores are now online at: https://srs.live/task.

We had a great first task yesterday. Well done to the winners: Team Gin 2, Jhojan Styven Marin Orozco and Summer Barham.

A 64km task got the competition off to a flying start. The task started with a fairly challenging start cylinder, giving the pilots the choice between staying reliably high on the terrain but far away from the start line, or trying to find thermals in the flats early in the day to wait close to the line. Once started, progress was easy to the northerly turnpoints, with booming thermals and easy climbs. The same applied on the southerly leg, and it was possible to push hard through the regular, strong thermals. At Zarzal, however, things changed and it was necessary to change gear and start grovelling in the weak, shady thermals. The smokestack of the sugar cane factory provided smelly relief, but got us high enough to take the southerly turnpoint and glide into goal. Well done to the 67 pilots who made goal, better luck today to those who didn’t.