Hodnocení ME od vítěze (EN)
Firstly, I decided only one week before the championship to come. The usual helm of Ludo hurts himself one month ago so he were out of the competition. Ludo called me 3 times before I said yes. And that's how, without ANY training together we took the road from Orléans (2h at the south of Paris) to the Lipno Lake in Czech.
After this history, another starts.. The best trip!! After 2 hours driving, the new car of Ludo just break down... The motor were out of order. We decided to make 2 groups of 2 (we were 4 frenchies in the car) one which were taking a taxi from the city we were, and were going to recover the old car of Ludovic (Citroën Xantia) and after 6 hours of driving/waiting for the other team, we were again on the road... But too late for the openning ceremony... Sad news! 😂
So, we arrived at 5:30, early in the morning. We dropped the boats at the club and decided to sleep 4 little hours because we got the measurement at 9:30am. Measurement and registration done, then we were ready. A little tired but ready. We polished the boat under the beautiful sun of Cerna. And then we were going on water. Testing the crew and after some tacks and gybes, we waited the races. We did 5 and 7 for the 2 first races after having been in the 30 boats at the 1st mark. Very bad starts but good speed and good control of the gusts and the fleet. That's makes us 6th overall. It was a good place because my objectif were to finish the championship in the 10. First good day in Czech republic we decided to go to eat too late (9:00pm) and finally saw on the road a jeep (Cantona and Ziquet) stopped by a big boar (+60kg).. We regretted to not brining it to the club to cook it!!
More about the other days:
good wind announced, we did good races of 6 and 2, still firsts overall, what a surprise!! (new team, I never trained with ludo before). We stayed on the 1st step of the podium during all the days after this day and finally won the championship.
This event was the best I ever made. Beer race, wonderful place with montains, good wind (like in the lake where I'm trainning in Orléans.. a bit shifty), good Zelena 😂
I hope we will do some other championships in this location. The Happy French Team loved this week and will return.
Thanks for this great event, thanks to the volunteers (comitee, jury included) and all people who works for us, thanks to all competitors who were here and represented the fireball class.
See you soon!
Verkest Aloïs
(foto: Facebook Český Fireball)