US-A Team to race in Viljandi, Estonia

[Check-book]

Go, A Team..........

We're sending wings to your heels, great water, and good luck.
Augustine Racing

You do us proud whatever you do!

[John Lawrence]

Usa team

Whats happenen!!! John Lawrence

[abbypond]

News from Viljandi....

The driver's meeting took place at 8 am this morning, followed by a test session and then time trials. Billy was 3rd and Tony 16th in time trials. Heats 1 and 2 will run today (weather permitting). Check out these pics, the team is looking good!

[HRTV]

The live video feed can be seen here:

http://www.videoteam.ee/paat/

[ryan_4z]

They are on wind hold.

[BROCCOLI]

wind hold!

They went to Estonia for a wind hold. They could have gone to Wakefield for that!

[kev29p]

nice caption Bill

https://picasaweb.google.com/1008077...63626182730786

[abbypond]

Heat 1- Billy takes 4th and Tony 14th...standby for heat 2 results.

[Phil Fronce]

Hull?

What hull is Billy racing?

[John Lawrence]

USA Team

Abby: SEcond heat?? John Lawrence

[U.S. "A" Team]

It was not the best of days for the U.S. A Team. After almost an entire day of wind delays it started out well for U.S. driver Allen as he qualified in the third position out of twenty entries from ten different countries driving his Kamp Kurz Hull. The other American entry of Tony Lombardo piloting the Bennett Boats entry struggled to a sixteenth qualifying position and by the sound of his engine seemed to be dealing with carborator issues through the trials. In heat one, Allen came out of turn one in eighth place and battled his way through the pack by running an outside line and eventually closed to a hard fought fourth. Lombardo still had engine issues and although he improved his position by one spot, was still well below the team's expectations. In heat two, Allen's engine failed to fire on the first pull sending him into the first turn in last place but with some gritty driving in the rough water he was closing on tenth when he was hampered by the misfortune of blowing a hole in his left sponson shoe. Allen eventually finished in tewlth place and somehow finished the cool down lap and managed to get back to the pits without sinking. Lombardo didn't fare any better as his engine was still lacking power sending him once again to the back of the pack. When heat two was in the books, Allen was sitting in sixth and Lombardo was holding position in the rear of the field. As night closed on the pit area, U.S. A Team Chief Technical Officer Bob Cronin could be seen feverishly repairing the Kamp Kurz Hull and rebuilding the carburetor on Lombardo's engine with the help of the Swedish, Russian, Slovakian and Estonian teams. With two heats down and two to go the Americans are bloody but unbowed and are looking forward to a better day in heats three and four tomorrow.


Unity Flagstaff reporting.

[Howie Nichols]

Good luck tomorrow, if anyone can do it you can. Rally back!!!!!!

USA is proud of your accomplishments regardless of the outcome. We look forward to hearing all about it in Wakefield.

The Nichols

[kampkurz]

Best of luck, US "A" Team!

Thanks for the update Unity! I hope Billy and the crew can find enough plywood to fix that hole. I know most of our european friends have neer seen it. We are gonna use 7mm on those sponson bottoms next time.
Good luck with the repairs, hope you can get the carb issues corrected as well. I know you guys are putting your best effort into it, and can't wait to hear more about it. Mark Kurz

[7 d]

good luck tomorrow ,where watchin in rodiland

[j hydro racer]

Tony and Billy tested this morning, billys boat is fixed and not leaking. Tonys motor seems to be running better. Heat 3 in one hour