13th FAI World Rally Flying Championship

13th FAI World Rally Flying Championship took place between July 26 - August 3, 2003 in Rustenburg in South Africa.

There were 51 crews from 14 countries: South Africa (7), Poland (4), France (4), Czech Republic (4), Austria (6), United Kingdom (6), Germany (6), Russia (3), Spain (3), Chile (3), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Cyprus (1), Portugal (1).

Contest

First navigation competition:
# Nigel Hopkins / Dale de Klerk flag|ZAF - 324 penal points
# Philippe Odeon / Philippe Muller flag|FRA - 344 pts
# Krzysztof Wieczorek / Wacław Wieczorek flag|POL - 418 pts

Second navigation competition:
# Nigel Hopkins / Dale de Klerk flag|ZAF - 166 pts
# Nathalie Strube / Patrick Sicard flag|FRA - 538 pts
# M. Lifshits / Dmitri Sukharev flag|RUS - 576 pts

Third navigation competition:
# Jiří Filip / Michal Filip flag|CZE - 168 pts
# Janusz Darocha / Zbigniew Chrząszcz flag|POL - 188 pts
# Adrian Pilling / Renier Moolman flag|ZAF - 188 pts

Results

Individual:

Pilot / navigator; country; penal points for observation + navigation + landings

Team

Counted two best crews (amount of penal points):
#flag|ZAF - 2594
#flag|FRA - 3104
#flag|POL - 3216
#flag|CZE - 3432
#flag|AUT - 5466
#flag|GBR - 5954
#flag|ESP - 6244
#flag|DEU - 6706
#flag|CHL - 8791
#flag|RUS - 11097
#flag|GRC - 20414

Trivia

It was the first FAI World Rally Flying Championship since the 5th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in 1986, not won by the Poles.

Links

* [http://www.sapfa.org.za/wrfc2003/ Official page]
* [http://events.fai.org/ga/EventDetails.asp?id=1277 13th FAI World Rally Flying Championship]