Reno 2004 Saturday Unlimited Gold Heat Race

Saturday's Gold race had a really cool position change right in front of the crowd as Mike Brown in September Fury passes John Penney in Rare Bear for 2nd place. Skip Holm in Dago Red continued to dominate the field as he crossed the finish line in first place, with Mike brown right behind him.

[@Reynard_11]

I went to the NCAR from 2003-2010 & then again last year for the finale. This exact race was one of my favorite moments!
I definitely lean radial & of all that I saw in person (you'll hate hearing this 😉), 232 is ultimately my #1. If for no other reason then it's beautiful intake howl, that to my ears is unique amongst all the duplex cyclones, really gets the dopamine spiking. Me luvs it so! When Mike went around John, show center, I thought maybe this is the moment we're seeing a change in the dominant radial racer flag bearer... alas. I will say at the time I was quite frustrated with just how f'ing fast the Dago/Skip combo was, but now I realize just how lucky I was to have been able to see all these pilots & birds in the air together performing at their peak.
You were even luckier. 😁

[@RemoVegas]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU..! WOW - YOU CONTINUE TO POST THESE GEMS, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE CAN, THAT YOU WON'T SHARE....
YOU DA' MAN..!

[@alexandrearraou]

Truly amazing to watch

[@johnmoore1459]

Well done !!!

[@Voodoo1650]

Thank you!!

[@ultimatejay]

What happened to al these planes and the racibng?

[@TheKusa5]

Reno held its last race last year, right now the air racing association is looking for a new venue to host the racing, as for the planes, a few are still around to this day, a few are in storage, and some are being sold around to new owners, and some, unfortunately have crashed, unfortunately info for some of these aircraft are hard to find, I've been looking for info on what happened to rare bear for years now!