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7 July 2025


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GRATULACJE WRmirekd !!!
FELICITATIONS YANN !! FELICITATIONS KaSToR !

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A superb report by KaSToR under the Californian brown bear above tells you everything you need to know about what went on in this online edition of the SOCAL300. In brief, fickle winds that were so light, that every forecast saw the wise men at NOAA change their minds dramatically about what the next six hours (and beyond, if you dared trust them) would bring.

However, there had to be a winner, and just to prove that it wasn't just a matter of luck, that was serial SOL victor WRmirekd, by 15 seconds from a little French flotilla of YANN and our reporter KaSToR. Dantesque, he called it, and it was!

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It was a little while ago now that we raced this 'Dantesque Race!'. We're a sophisticated lot here on SOL, but nevertheless, and as much because your blog-editor had forgotten he had already published a blog and went to some trouble to pen the following, let me tell you about Dante, or Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri to give him his full name. Like several good SOLers, Dante was an Italian, a Tuscan in fact and a Guelfi Bianchi, a supporter of the Pope but, ahead of his time, with reservations. To promote his ideas, he wrote poetry, and unusual for that time (we're talking the turn of the 13th C to the next) not in Latin, but in a local vernacular, its written form mostly created by himself. His great epic is 'La Divina Commedia' and it is in three parts, 'Inferno', 'Puragatoria' and 'Paradiso'.

Be those second and third parts as they may, in this year's SoCal 300, SOLers mostly had to deal with the first part, 'Inferno', and to quote just the first three lines of the first of 34! canto (English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author of 'Paul Revere's Ride' and 'The song of Hiawatha' inter alia):

        "Midway upon the journey of our Life
        I found myself within a forest dark,
        For the straightforward pathway had been lost"

And things got worse from there, but someone had to win and it was WRmirekd, who one supposes found a path not so straightforward but that got him to 'Paradiso' nonetheless!

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