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Provezza scored a great win in the second coastal race of the Porto Cervo 52 SUPER SERIES Audi Sailing Week, a 30 nautical miles passage clockwise around Spargi Island in a NW’ly breeze which peaked at 22-23kts in the stronger gusts. Ergin Imre’s team, with Peter Holmberg steering, lead Quantum Racing into the strait and…
Wednesday’s transgression may be two days behind them. Today they climbed to the top of the Porto Cervo 52 SUPER SERIES Audi Sailing Week standings, sailing 1,3,1,4 since they retired on from the first day’s coastal race due to an error, but Quantum Racing’s hard driving tactician Terry Hutchinson has in no way put the…
Tony Langley’s Gladiator won Race 5 of the Porto Cervo 52 SUPER SERIES Audi Sailing Week and move to third overall on the regatta standings while Quantum Racing’s 1,4 today sees them take over top spot at the midway point of the event. Gladiator started well and stayed out of the battle for the left…
Staying clear of the melee at the busy pin end of the start line, Quantum Racing, Rán Racing and Platoon started together, were able to get across the fleet early to the left of the first beat and so finished one, two and three in Race 4. In the left side favoured NW’ly breeze of…
(Thursday 22nd June, Porto Cervo) – For two of the 2017 season’s top 52 SUPER SERIES teams the familiar waters of Porto Cervo, Sardinia have been something of an emotional rollercoaster. The oft heard cliché that so competitive is the 52 SUPER SERIES fleet right now that one day you are in the penthouse, seemingly…
Rán Racing won the second windward-leeward race today to take the overall lead in the Porto Cervo 52 SUPER SERIES Audi Sailing Week. Azzurra led at the top mark first time up, racing in 9 to 11kts of breeze, but lost out to Niklas Zennström’s team on the approach to the leeward gate. Rán stretched…
Quantum Racing bounced back from a poor first day to win Race 2 comfortable from Paprec in second with new World Champions Platoon in 11th. Quantum Racing started beautifully off the pin end of the line and were never challenged. Platoon and Provezza were over the start line early, Ergin Imre’s Turkish-flagged team fighting back…
(Wednesday 21st June, Porto Cervo) – The 52 SUPER SERIES fleet’s love-hate relationship with the coastal race discipline continues. Some days they are loved, most of all by those who have a good one. But correspondingly the bad days are often some of the darkest. The fact that the scenery that borders the 21-mile route…
Takashi Okura’s Sled opened the fourth 52 SUPER SERIES regatta of the season – the Porto Cervo 52 SUPER SERIES Audi Sailing Week – in the best possible way: winning a light-winds, challenging 21-nautical-mile coastal race. The course took the fleet west, up and back, in a very benign “bomb alley”. Sorcha led after the…
Tony Langley’s Gladiator crew proved they are in great shape for the fourth regatta of the 52 SUPER SERIES when they won the practice race for the Porto Cervo 52 SUPER SERIES Audi Sailing Week in light conditions around a windward-leeward course. As has become their habit, home team Azzurra steered away from the finish…
