Goal Foradada - Task 5

Results Task 5 here.
Updated Overall Results here.
Updated Team Results here.
Tracks Task 5 here.

23 pilots in goal, a difficult one indeed! Alessandro Ploner (ITA), current World Champion and toady's day winner, as he crosses the goal line:

He is going for his landing approach:

As we approached the goal's coordinates, we came upon several beautiful and huge landing fields; they all looked great. It was defined as a "dream field" and compared to those enormous fields in Forbes (Oz). The goal staff was already installed, looking very pofessional with the umbrella, the line and one of the marshalls looking through the binoculars:

Martin Harri (CHE) said that "It was a difficult task with a lot of wind and not a lot of height: max. cloud base was around 2300 or 2400mts, but the average was 1800mts. The route was tricky up to Vilanova, where I saw a lot of people getting low; then we had to fly into the flatlands where flying in a gaggle it was OK, but alone you had almost no chance. The last part of the task, you had strong head wind but there was "good air" (lift)."

This task may really affect the overall results since some of the leading pilots did not make it and other top ones were slow; a real "scrambler".