VARO News

Well its all over and Wombat scored the trifecta of VARO Air Racing. I would like to thank all pilots that attended any of the VARO races and I look forward to the future for VARO with the new pilots we having coming in. To both new and old pilots we got a lot of new stuff coming your way in the next month as we gear up for the Fall Season, I have listed below the new and the revised changes we are making.

New Additions for Fall 2004 Season

Jet Racing: The jet class with be run after the unlimited events and will use some classic aircraft in the way of the US built Sabre and the Russian built Mig 15. This class will be run as an experimental class which mean we will crown a champion for the class but points gained for races will not count toward the overall championship.

T-6 Oval Racing: With the addition of the Jet to the Unlimited events we needed to add an event to the F1 events so we will be racing the T-6's on 3 mile F1 Oval. The T-6 class will also be an experimental class for the fall season.

Pond Racer: Yes we do plan to have the low poly racing version of the famous Pond Racer ready for the fall 2004 season. Expect to see at least one Pond Racer out there when the unlimiteds start.

Team Racing:After kicking around the idea we are going to start a Team Championship. I am still working out the details but I can tell you that the team championship will be totally voluntary.

Changes for the Fall 2004 Season

Timed Practice Sessions: In an effort to get as much racing done in a two hour sessions we will be changing from the heat race format to the timed practice session format. How does this work? Well its actually simple before we call the first race we will have a 20 minute practice session pilots will run timed hotlaps during practice. Once the practice is closed times will be submitted to the race organizer and they will set the field from there. Using this method we will only end up with two races a silver and a gold but we and run multiple classes now in a two hour block making it easier for pilots to get involved without making a huge time commitment.

Equalized Unlimiteds: Wombat and Maple One are currently working getting the Sea Fury and the Lightnings up to par with the Mustang and the Bearcat so we can have some closer races.

Upgraded F1: Work has already been done on the F1 to fix its prop problem and to take a little more guess work out of the setup of the F1. Maple One has also made the gear a bit stiffer to prevent the usual bouncing during landing.

Website upgrade: Over the next couple weeks as I get finished with a reformat of my work/racing system I will be upgrading the website and hopefullly adding some more organization making things a little easier to get to. I will also be opening a CafeExpress shop to sell VARO merchandise in order to pay the bills and possible offer some prizes for race champions.

Additions and clearifications to the rules page are also in the works and will be posted to the site pending approval of the VARO Race Committee.

Other News:
We are currently working out an exhibition race to be else on the FlightSim.com server. The guys over at Flightsim.com are interested in starting a team to race in VARO events. We are going to need all our pilots out there to put on the best race we can.

V-Con Space Prize to the Stars,Sponsored by Motis Industries
Maple One and I(Sryth) are currently working on an entry for this competition. Basically the competition entails the construction of a four man vehicle capable of reaching low earth orbit and then landing safely back to earth. More information on this project as it progresses. Since there is a cash prize involved with this project secrecy is the utmost consern we do not wish your our ideas and design to be "borrowed" by anyother team. If you would like to get involved with this exciting project please feel free to e-mail Sryth. We are currently looking for a test pilot and someone that is familiar with the freeware Orbiter Sim because I would like to put the vehicle to it as well.