Scoring day - status at 8am

As soon as all the racers got in last night, the judges were hard at work analyzing the data from the timers at each stop, and the data from the airplane trackers. By Friday night, they start making phone calls to racers. There are two kinds of call. There's the bad kind, where they tell you you are being assessed for one or more penalties for breaking race rules, or even (perish the thought) disqualification. Then there's the good kind, where they tell you your plane has to be reinspected, which means that you're probably going to be in the top ten! This year, as of 8am this morning anyway, team Vectors Wild has not received a call of either kind. We know lots of people who have had penalty calls, and rumor has it that no one has yet had an inspection call. We each have to meet with Marvin the chief timer today to agree our final score, which incorporates leg times and knots added for penalties. We have calculated our own score which is higher than some people we know but a lot lower than some other people we know, and we will compare this with Marvin's score. Linda is in full data analytics mode trying to figure out what we would do better next year. I am just pleased that we got a positive score and can say (as of 8am this morning anyway) that we ran a clean race. Everything could still change of course, and we won't know the final rankings till tomorrow night at the banquet.