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Quantum Racing are bidding for their fifth 52 SUPER SERIES championship title in the ten year history of the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit. Winners in 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2018 that means that is now four years since the US flagged team has lifted the big prize. They came close last season in…
There were just five points separating first place from fourth and only two points from championship winners Sled from third placed Platoon at the end of the 2021 52 SUPER SERIES season last November in Palma. As the 2022 season starts in Baiona, Galicia on Monday there seems every chance that the final leaderboard will…
Harm Müller Spreer’s Platoon have an enviable record on the 52 SUPER SERIES. Third last year and missing the season title win by only two points, second in 2019, 2018 and 2017. They have been painfully close to winning the championship – seven points shy after six regattas and more than 50 races in 2017…
The Plattner family’s South African flagged Phoenix came tantalisingly close to winning the Rolex TP52 World Championships and indeed were challengers to the end in the race for the 2021 52 SUPER SERIES title. Who can say what might have been had their spinnaker not blown up on the last downwind in Race 7 just…
The foreshortened 2021 52 SUPER SERIES punished high scores. With 19 races sailed across the three regattas teams which had one or two bad races really paid a heavy price. Ergin Imré’s Turkish flagged Provezza started well with a fourth in Puerto Portals – scene of their 2017 regatta triumph – but slumped to seventh…
The 52 SUPER SERIES fleet arrived in Baiona this week and with it the countdown to the start of the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailing Week starts to feel very real. The preparations for the proud Galician town and the historic yacht club, the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona, have been going…
For Tony Langley’s Gladiator team ten good days of training with the group of boats in Valencia in April proved valuable, not least in laying down the important ground work in their partnership with the Quantum Racing stable which Langley and the crew hope will reap better results in 2022. The return to Quantum sails…
Over the last couple of years Andy Soriano’s Alegre team have really established themselves as potential regatta winners as well as being a programme which has all the talent, the hardware and the experience to finish the 2022 season with a podium position overall. Last season saw them finish fifth overall on the end of…
Austin and Gwen Fragomen’s US flagged Interlodge team returned to the 52 SUPER SERIES in Europe last season after an absence going on five years. The opportune purchase of the 2019 championship winning Azzurra was the catalyst for their stepping back into the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit. And while they had to change…
During the upcoming five regatta season the 52 SUPER SERIES will utilise autonomous remote controlled marks from the German company Smartmark. The buoys were comprehensively tested last season at the Rolex TP52 World Championship in Mallorca. The marks can be precisely remotely controlled to a GPS position said to be accurate to within 11cms. The Smartmark…
