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A long, three race day on the water for the 52 SUPER SERIES fleet at Quantum Key West, sees a new regatta leader in Niklas Zennström’s Rán Racing. The world champions sailed a consistent day, improving on a fourth in the first race to post a first and a second, earning themselves a slender lead…
Conditions today were ideal for Key West: sunny, 12-16 knots, some small shifts to keep the game tactically challenging and the racing close all day. In the first race nearly everyone had a clear lane of the start, which allowed Interlodge to find an upwind speed gear no one else had to take an early…
Niklas Zennstrom’s Rán Racing won their first race in the 52 SUPER SERIES at Quantum Key West regatta to earn an equal points share of the event lead along with Quantum Racing which finished fourth. In the shifty breeze which averaged 14kts Rán Racing came in on a great shift with pressure to take the…
From a race sailed in unusually wet and squally conditions, somewhat atypical of the annual regatta’s reputation for regular breezes and sunshine, the Quantum Racing team managed to keep their unbeaten record intact to increase their overall lead at the top of the US 52 SUPER SERIES at Quantum Key West. The five leg windward-leeward…
With owner Doug DeVos steering Quantum Racing extended their unbeaten record to three races here at the US 52 SUPER SERIES by winning today’s one dramatic five leg contest. After a long delay while the race area was subjected to successive big rain squalls which pulled the breeze in many different directions, the race was…
Quantum Racing steered by team owner Doug DeVos won both of the 2014 season’s first races for the US 52 SUPER SERIES at Quantum Key West regatta making the best of the very light and difficult racing conditions, narrowly holding off the current world champions Rán Racing at each of the finishes. Quantum Racing came…
Unstable, unsettled breezes have marked the final days of practice for the US 52 SUPER SERIES fleet on the azure blue water of Key West. Finding a pattern to the changes in wind pressure and direction has been equally difficult for the six TP52 teams whether they are the reigning champions or the newcomers to…
The curtain will rise on what promises to be an exciting 2014 52 SUPER SERIES season on Monday 20th January when six 52s lines up on the famous race waters of Key West, Florida for the first regatta of the two events which form the US 52 SUPER SERIES. Two European TP52s return to Quantum…
The newest, latest generation TP52 which is set to bring new owner Mr Edward de Souza Ramos in to the 52 SUPER SERIES for the first time is taking shape at King Marine in Valencia, Spain and is on schedule to be launched in the middle of March 2014. The new Botin Partners design, the…
Botin Partners hold an enviable record in the TP52 class, designers of the boats which have won the 52 SUPER SERIES or the MedCup every year since 2008 with Quantum Racing(s), Emirates Team New Zealand and Azzurra. They have had a busy autumn and winter designing the class’s latest entrant, the new Brazilian flagged Phoenix…
