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  • Rán Restore Their Regatta Lead

    Ran Racing bounced back from a disappointing day Thursday to score second best of the 52 SUPER SERIES fleet today. A fourth and first against Alegre’s 8,9 turns the tables on this morning’s event leaders and now it is Niklas Zennstrom’s crew who go into the final day with a lead of six points. In…

  • Good start for Sled in Race 8

    Takashi Okura and his crew won Race 8 to take over third place on the Ford Vignale Valencia Sailing Week. It is Sled’s second win of the regatta. Quantum Racing composed their second third place in a row to continue their steady rise up the standings. Sled lead to the top mark first time up,…

  • Shaping Up

    Shaping Up

    Today can be the key day of the regatta. For the top teams its the time to play the fine percentages. Alegre have just enough of a margin, at six points up on Rán Racing, not to need to push the envelope too hard, but to keep on doing what they have been doing so…

  • Gun to gun for Bronenosec in Race 7

    Top line consistency has proven near to impossible in this grand prix TP52 fleet at the Ford Vignale Valencia sailing week regatta with all of the teams now carrying at least one weighty score. While Bronenosec won the third race today, a gun to gun success to become only the second team along with Alegre…

  • Race 6 – Sled wins in brisk sea breeze

    Takashi Okura’s Sled became the fifth team from six races to score a victory when they lead Harm Muller Spreer’s Platoon across the finish line of today’s second of three planned contests. Sled and Platoon broke away early working the high left of the first windward leg well to lead at the top mark. In…

  • Azzurra victory in Race 5

    Azzurra, runners up in last year’s 52 SUPER SERIES, won race 5 of the Ford Vignale Sailing week to rise to third overall on the event standings, while Alegre’s second place gives them the overall lead. Ran Racing leaders this morning sailed to a weighty tenth place to slip to second behind rivals Alegre. The…

  • Hotting Up

    Hotting Up

    A three race day is planned for Ford Vignale Sailing Week, the opening event of the 2015 52 SUPER SERIES, and that is almost certain to open up the results table – especially the log jam of boats very close on points in the middle of the fleet. The sea breeze is dialled up and…

  • Race 4 – First win for Bronenosec

    Niklas Zennström’s crew on Rán retain the overall regatta lead after the second day of racing, thanks to a solid second place in Race 4 behind Vladimir Liubumirov’s Bronenosec which won their first ever 52 SUPER SERIES race on only their second day on the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit. Bronenosec lead around the…

  • Race 3 – Close race in excellent conditions

    A second win from an exciting Race 3 of the Ford Vignale Valencia Sailing Week sees Andy Soriano and his Alegre crew take the overall event lead. But a second place stolen at the last gasp by Rán keeps Niklas Zennström’s crew locked on the same aggregate points as Alegre. Alegre got the better of…

  • Day 2 
– Sunshine and seabreeze, normal Valencia service.

    The nerves and high anxiety of the first day of the season when all the new boats were properly competition tested, today it is back to normal business. The boats are becoming more familiar, more of a known quantity and from that point of view the crews head out to the Valencia Malvarrosa beach race…