British Winter Open Wrap up
Another successful British Winter Open wraps up with a win for Dylan Mansley
Task 4
Keen to race after the previous cancellation, the skies early morning looked great. But all was not as it seemed as the pilots launched under thick cloud for the 79km race starting at 13:15.
The route took the field across the valley to Zarzal, south past La Paila, north towards Obando and return to the Zarzal goal field.
Richard Meek low near Zarzal
Much of the field were put on the ground at Zarzal. The predominant theory being an inversion layer caused the thermals to turn into a brisk southerly wind.
Thosw that survived the wind had to battle.under shade to the southern turn point but as they passed Zarzal for the second time the sky opened up and they got high. The leaders took the northern turn point and were.abke to scrape their way in. The following groups despite their best efforts were put on the ground between Obando and La Victoria.
Jerome Kagi (CHE) won the task, Jenny O’Neil was first female with Seb Ospina first Brit.
Day Seven, Task Five
With showers forecast for the mountains to the west and in the valley to the south, the tssk committee set a 67.5km zigzag task heading north.
Optimum start was near the bridge on the Zazal – Roldanillo road. From there they headed east and worked their way north to the goal at Obando airstrip.
Going in to the day it was right at the top of the leaderboard with thirteen pilots vying for the top spot.
The racing was fast and furious with many pilots pushing hard to try to take the task and competition win. Ross Desmond (USA) crossed the line first in 1:28:20 and took the task win with 43 pilots within 2 minutes. Fellow American Jenny O’Neil was the first female. In the British category, Dylan Mansley and Seb Ospina crossed the line in a dead heat at 1:28:38, but Dylan took it on lead-out points.
Dylan Mansley, Seb Ospina and Richard Meek
Checkout the results at https://airtribune.com/bwo2026/results
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