Also present were four more pilots flying UP Edge, i.e. all in all a quite strong presence.  Mads Syndergaard managed to secure a win for UP in the 2. task by, as the only pilot doing so, taking the first start time in the clock start sequence and flying all alone to the goal 67 km east of launch. Robert Bernat and Primoz Podobnik also flew great results and made this 2. task a true "UP Task". The third task was sadly the end of the adventure for the UP Race Team. Torsten, Robert and Mads all landed short and thus lost all hope of a decent overall result (Robert was in 4th place overall before the disaster struck). Still the boys went to launch motivated to improve their result every day, and on task 4 Torsten ate all the Leading Points while Primoz and Goran Dimiskovski (MK) improved their results daily. In the end these two pilots landed in 5th and 10th respectively and saved the comp for UP.

All Edge pilots commented on the amazing climbing ability of the new UP comp ship. Mads claimed to have arrived at the bottom of five consecutive gaggles in the flatlands SW of Nis, only to emerge at the top of the gaggles every time!

Thanks to all the UP pilots present,

Source: UP International GmbH
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