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  • Azzurra Are Royal Cup Kings of Miami

    (Saturday 11th March, Miami) – In winning the 52 SUPER SERIES second regatta of the 2017 season, the 52 SUPER SERIES Miami Royal Cup, Azzurra proved once again that a team on the bounceback from a modest preceding event is often at its most potent. The emblematic team of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda felt…

  • CONGRATULATIONS to Azzurra for winning the 52 SUPER SERIES Miami Royal Cup

    CONGRATULATIONS to Azzurra for winning the 52 SUPER SERIES Miami Royal Cup regatta with a bold display of unwavering brilliance throughout the week. Azzurra win the second regatta of the 2017 52 SUPER SERIES season, the Miami Royal Cup with a fourth place in the final race. Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon finish runners up just as…

  • Platoon Win Race 8, Azzurra’s Third Keeps on Course for Miami Title

    A third place from an exciting penultimate race sees Azzurra with one hand on the title for the second regatta of the 52 SUPER SERIES season, the Miami Royal Cup. The crew representing the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda have a nine points margin over Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon. Race 8 was sailed in an E’ly breeze…

  • Azzurra On the Cusp of Miami Royal Cup Win?

    (Friday 10th March, Miami) – Azzurra carry a ten points lead into the final day of the Miami Royal Cup and are looking to reprise their last 52 SUPER SERIES regatta title when they won the last event of 2016, the EGNOS Cascais Cup. In light winds off Miami Beach the emblematic Italian team which…

  • Race 7 – Sled Win, Azzurra Still Top the Table

    Takashi Okura’s Sled crew won a light wind Race 6 of the Miami Royal Cup, leading from the left side of the first upwind they remained well clear of Tony Langley’s sharp starting Gladiator all the way to the finish line. With Quantum Racing in fifth place and Azzurra scoring an eighth, the regatta lead…

  • Race 6 – Azzurra on Top Form

    Azzurra won Race 6 of the 52 SUPER SERIES Miami Royal Cup and so extend their overall lead to 15 points. Quantum Racing, along with Rán Racing and Alegre were all over the start line early and had to recross the line. Azzurra started nicely again and in the light SE’ly breeze, just 5-6 kts…

  • Quantum Racing Win But Azzurra Hold Firm

    (Thursday 9th March, Miami) – Quantum Racing won the only raced sailed today at the 52 SUPER SERIES Miami Royal Cup, but with regatta leaders Azzurra crossing the line in second place, the team from the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda lead by 11 at the half way point of the event with eight points. Provezza…

  • Race 5 – Quantum Racing Win

    Quantum Racing bounced back from their lacklustre second day of the Miami Royal Cup to win Race 5 of this second regatta of the 52 SUPER SERIES season. After a long delay for the fleet on the water, waiting for a breeze to build and settle, the race got under way cleanly in five to…

  • Double Top Azzurra Work Their Miami Magic

    (Wednesday 8th March, Miami) – Azzurra may have had to wait until the second day of the Miami Royal Cup, the second event of the 52 SUPER SERIES season, to score their first race wins of 2017, but two well earned victories off Miami Beach Wednesday sees the Roemmers family team step eight points clear…

  • Race 4 –  Azzurra Untouchable in Race 4 to Commanding Overall Lead

    When Vasco Vascotto is hot, the fiery Italian tactician for the Azzurra team can seem at one with the wind; and he’s nearly impossible to beat. That lesson was drummed into the heads of his competition on the 52 SUPER SERIES circuit once again during Race 4 of the 2017 52 SUPER SERIES Miami Royal…