(OscarCVox) wrote in message ...
If Pilots are team flying Results would also be similar since they have to be
fairly close to be of any use to each other.

Wrong conclusion based on wrong assumption. Depends on how you define
and/or execute team flying.
One form of team flying (the form you and most are probably thinking
of) is the close team where the two gliders are rarely or never more
than a few hundred meters apart. The extreme variant: If for some
reason the gap gets too big, the one ahead waits (even deploys
spoilers!) for the other to catch up. If one has to outland, the other
will join him. Successful examples: French team at the WGC in Wiener
Neustadt, the Frei brothers who won the pre-Worlds in Bayreuth. They
tied for first place twice in the Swiss Nationals.
Less extreme: if the team gets separated, each member flies on and
gives all relevant information to the other. It becomes an info-team.
The one behind has a very good chance of catching up again. That's how
most teams work. Successful example: the Crabb brothers (I think
that's how they do it).
Some teams don't even bother to try to stay together because they'll
get seperated anyway. So they start off as a pure info-team from the
beginning.


In the standard class britsh pilots were 1st and 19th (out of 44)
15m class 4th and 37th (out of 41)
18m class 2nd and 3rd (out of 23)
open class 4th (out of 20)
From this I would deduce that team flying was only of use in the 18m class.

See above. The overall ranking says nothing about successful or not
team flying. On WGC level you can lose more than 10 overall places
with one bad day. I know, believe me.
How do you know 1st in standard and 4th in 15m weren't a result of
good info-team flying? As soon as one pilot has no chance of winning
anymore, why not send him ahead to try and make the other pilot even
faster? (Don't know for sure if this is done)

Now about 4th place in open class. Ever thought of inter-class or
inter-national team flying? Example: Makoto Ichikawa (JPN) and Thomas
Suchanek (CZ) flew as a team in Poland.
So just forget the one-pilot-per-nation-per-class rubbish to prevent
team flying. Even IGC must realise that, no?


Regards
Marcel