Late breaking news

I bumped into judge Marvin with a sheet of paper in his hand on his way to post the final calculated handicaps, so was the first racer to get a look at them. Our handicap speed is 143.17 knots (ie about 165 mph). This is a couple knots faster than last year when we were carrying passenger Barbara, so it seems about right. During the race we need to beat this speed by as big a margin as we can, and everyone else will be trying to do the same thing.