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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…
(Monday 19th June, Porto Cervo) – Crowned first time world champions after winning the third event of the 52 SUPER SERIES in Scarlino, Tuscany last month, Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon team are the form team of the six-regatta season so far. Second in Key West in January, runners up again in Miami in March and then…
The management of the 52 SUPER SERIES have released the planned dates for the five regattas that will comprise the 2018 52 SUPER SERIES. The intention is to take the world’s leading grand prix monohull yacht racing circuit to new locations in 2018; notably Croatia and Greece. The schedule, as it stands, would have the…
(Saturday 20th May, Scarlino) – Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon crew got the better of the five-time title holders Quantum Racing during an exciting winner takes all final day showdown to win the Rolex TP52 World Championship title for the first time. Their seemingly unerring consistency across the challenging, hard-to-read conditions proved telling. Though they did not…
CONGRATULATIONS to Platoon for winning the Rolex TP52 World Championship Scarlino 2017, the third of six week-long regattas. A full round up the day, and of the entire regatta, will be made available shortly. Congratulations also go to Azzurra for winning the final race. Platoon win the Rolex TP52 world championship with a second place…
(Friday 19th May, Scarlino) – The most consistent TP52 crew so far this season, Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon team have given themselves a fighting chance of lifting the Rolex TP52 World Championship title for the first time after returning a strong pair of scores on the penultimate day of competition. After scoring no worse than third…
