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World Championship 1998    Results Analysis
Congratulations to Guido Gehrmann and his Topless. An ICARO pilot did not win World’s Championship, that’s true, and we’re disappointed. We know that a mix of ability and good luck is always necessary to gain the victory, and this time it didn’t happen to our Champions.

Anyway ICARO -as a Manufacturer- got a very important success, so confirming that world leadership has been reached. We aren’t overestimating ourself: we can say it after carefully analyzing placing distribution per Brand. Just look at the figures, and you’ll be convinced.

Moyes

39

Bautek

6

Aeros

2

FreeFlight

1

ICARO

35

Guggenmos

4

Quasar

2

SolarWings

1

LaMouette

19

Avian

3

Ellipse

1

-

-

WillsWing

15

UP

3

Tecma

4

-

-

Airwave

7

Airborne

3

Seedwings

1

TOTAL

146

 


 

Let’s start by considering how many pilots per Brand brought the competition to an end: it’s clear that Four are the important Brands on which it makes sense to carry out statistical examinations.
Icaro and Moyes show a well-balanced massive participation, while Wills Wing and La Mouette are at a lower -but still important- level. Other brands figures are marginal for statistics, although a few pilots in this group got an excellent score.
Anyway we’re speaking about a Championship in which a meaningful number of pilots took part, and a good 146 of them finished the competition.

As a Brand ICARO wins hands down, while La Mouette reaches the prestigious target of the individual victory, and generally has an acceptable result thanks to some good performances. On the whole Moyes loses. For Wills Wing is a débacle.

Let’s see the details.

That means that among the world’s first 30 roughly one out of two is an ICARO, and among the very first (8) a good two out of three are ICARO’s: these figures are impressive indeed!

Icaro got these placings:

5

within the first

8

62%

14

within the first

30

47%

23

within the first

60

38%

 


#

tot points

Icaro

35

219,744

Moyes

39

196,811

LaMouette

19

112,874

WillsWing

15

59,325

Moyes is definitly losing, especially if compared with Icaro. In fact the total number of Icaro’s and Moyes’ pilots are comparable, or rather Moyes has more pilots but scored less points!

 


#

tot points

Icaro

15

116,262

Moyes

15

102,999

LaMouette

15

99,567

WillsWing

15

59,325

If we repeat the analysis taking into account just as many pilots as Wills Wing ( i.e. the best 15 placings for the other 3 Brands) the above mentioned differences raise even more.

If we repeat the analysis taking into account just as many pilots as Wills Wing( i.e. the best 15 placings for the other 3 Brands) the above mentioned differences raise even more.


The following table visually summarizes the whole above analysis, showing the first 60 placings splitted up in columns according to the related Brands.     Let’s look at the following table.

You’ll see at a glance that our statement -although apparently presumptuous- is definitely true: World’s Championship 1998 results have stated a true Icaro’s leadership among hang gliders manufacturers.

ICARO

La Mouette

Moyes

Wills Wing

Others

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

34

35

36

37

37

39

40

41

42

43

44

45

46

47

48

49

50

51

52

53

54

55

56

57

58

59

60