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Today’s two short practice races, the prelude to Sunday’s start of the 2024 52 SUPER SERIES season at the 52 SUPER SERIES PalmaVela Sailing Week, underlined how tricky and testing Mallorca’s Bay of Palma can be in early Spring and also how in the unsettled winds and sloppy, choppy seas, any one of the ten…
Provezza had a difficult end to the 2023 season. In effect a standing rigging failure at the last regatta of the season saw their handy season lead disappear. They finished second, tied on points, which is still Ergin Imre’s team’s best ever result at the end of a season, but it was a very bittersweet…
After thrilling end to the 2023 52 SUPER SERIES circuit which saw Germany’s Platoon, owned and steered by Harm Müller-Spreer, win the season title on tie-break, the five regatta 2024 circuit opens on Sunday, Mallorca’s Bay of Palma at the 52 SUPER SERIES Palma Vela Sailing Week. And if last year finished on a high,…
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Newly launched Alegre leads the search for every small gain going into 2024 52 SUPER SERIES season.
The first of the two new Botin Partners designed TP52s to be built for this 52 SUPER SERIES season, Andy Soriano’s Alegre, is on course to make its racing debut at 52 SUPER SERIES Palma Vela Sailing Week which is coming up fast on the horizon and starts on Sunday April 28th. Soriano’s team have…
True to an initiative launched last year by team owner and 52 SUPER SERIES champion Doug De Vos that aims to provide younger sailors with experience and learning at the highest level of grand prix racing, Quantum Racing powered by American Magic will have four new younger athletes on the crew for the 2024 season,…
The world’s leading grand prix monohull sailing competition celebrates six years of partnership with the XSNation community The 52 SUPER SERIES, the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit, today announced it will benefit from the added support of Amway’s XS Energy and Sports Nutrition brand when the sailing competition heads for the USA in 2024.…
After finishing on the end of season overall podium five times, Harm Müller-Spreer and his German flagged Platoon crew finally clinched the 2023 52 SUPER SERIES title after a one race light winds showdown on the Bay of Palma, the concluding decider of the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week. But their 2023 championship…
After two excellent races in a brisk cross-offshore breeze on the Bay of Palma, which saw honours shared almost equally between the two title protagonists, it is Harm Müller-Spreer’s German flagged world champions Platoon crew which leads into the final day of the 2023 52 SUPER SERIES season but by only three points over the…
An incredible turn of events at the start of the first race today at the 52 SUPER SERIES Puerto Portals Sailing Week saw both of the top two title challengers, circuit leaders Provezza and second placed Platoon launched on an emotional rollercoaster which concluded with the German flagged world champions finishing today poised now only…
The Plattner family’s Phoenix lead the 52 SUPER SERIES Puerto Portals Sailing Week regatta after three excellent races on the Bay of Palma which were marred by a collision at the start of the second race when Sled and Platoon were hit by Gladiator on the start line. Platoon and Sled were allocated average points…
