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If the Plattner family’s Phoenix team, with man of the moment Tom Slingsby calling tactics, issued a clear statement of intent when they unrolled a truly comprehensive victory in the first race of the 2022 52 SUPER SERIES season, and with a 1.3 for the day lead the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailing Week…
Harm Müller Spreer’s Platoon team won the second race on the ria de Vigo after starting well and again working the right side of the course as Phoenix did in the first race. With the breeze built to 14kts Platoon led all the way around the course. The Whitcraft family crew on Vayu followed up…
The Plattner family’s South African flagged Phoenix sailed to a conclusive win in the first race of the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailing week in light 8-9kts winds on Galicia’s ria de Vigo. With Tom Slingsby calling tactics complemented by strategist Cameron Dunn Phoenix profited from starting at the committee boat, right hand end…
The 52 SUPER SERIES fleet warmed up for Tuesday’s start of the 2022 season with three good practice races today on the beautiful ría de Vigo off Baiona where the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit is visiting for the very first time in its ten year history. As if to underline how open this…
Sled, the 2021 52 SUPER SERIES champions welcome back their owner-driver Mr Okura – who could not travel last season and have their core Japanese sailors back but have the same core team as clinched the season championship and the Rolex TP52 World Championship in Palma last November. All too aware of the strength and…
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…
