10 April 2016
COMPETITION
World Cup Brazil in Castelo 10 – 15 April 2016
Currently taking place is the first event in the 2016 World Cup series, taking place in the region of Espirito Santo, Castelo in Brazil.
The region is to the south of Espírito Santo and is a world class flying site. Pilots can benefit from several launch areas : Alfredo Chaves, Castelo Sao Vicente, but also Vargem Alta – Rampa do Mirante which is the most popular of the local sites.
Training Day
Conditions for first of the World Cup tour events look good an are set to provide promising weather for the remainder of the week, as we can see from the Training Day from Castelo.
Live tracking for this event will not be broadcast until the PWC can recover the live trackers from Brazilian custom officials. This is not the first time that the PWC has had problems importing the tracker units to South America; earlier on this year for the 2015 Superfinal in Valle de Bravo, live trackers were also temporarily confiscated on arrival at Mexico airport, later to be returned by the authorities several days later.
The first video footage is brought to us from the Paragliding World Cup (PWC) cameraman, Philippe Broers.
Task 1 – Race to Goal 68 km
Today’s task saw pilots launch from Castel Sao Vicente. The end of race proved to be tricky with only a handful of pilots in goal. You can see the first day’s results here, with France’s Lucas Bernardini leading after the first day:
1- Lucas BERNARDIN (FRA)
2- Semih SAYIR (TUR)
3- Yanick LETTRY (CZ)
4- Felix RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ (SP)
5- Cody MITTANCK (USA)
6- Francisco MANTARAS (ARG)
7- Marco BUSETTA (ITA)
8- Pablo RODARTE (BRA)
9- Albino MALLI (CZ)
10- Gabriele GARDINI (ITA)
