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Winning five races from ten for the 52 SUPER SERIES at Quantum Key West Doug DeVos and the Quantum Racing team secured the first title of the new 2014 season. Starting Friday’s one final race of the series the 2013 season champions needed only a solid top four finish to win overall. A steady third…
With four points clear to win overall, Quantum Racing need to just have a safe, average performance in the final race to take the first stop in the 2014 52SuperSeries. With winds topping 20-25 knots, they came off in the first leg of the 5-leg course in the lead, but ceded this to Rán Racing…
While Quantum Racing composed a strong penultimate day of the five day series, posting a 1,2,1 from the three races sailed in fantastic conditions, their main title rivals Rán Racing and Azzurra had some difficult moments, not least when they both were over the start line early in the last contest. Quantum Racing streaked away…
Another ideal Key West day: sunny, 10-16 knots, and three races to get to within just one race of tomorrow’s finish to the first US stop of the 2014 SuperSeries. Race 7 was very fast by 52SuperSeries standards, only 47 minutes, which kept the action very close throughout. Having just broken free of the pack…
A win for Ran Racing ahead of Quantum Racing locks the two title contenders on the same points tally after eight races in the 52 SUPER SERIES at Quantum Key West. In a fading breeze which dropped from 16kts to ten on the finish line, Azzurra dropped badly on the first run when they lost…
After a disappointing high scoring Wednesday Quantum Racing got their 52 SUPER SERIES regatta back on track with a hard won victory in Race 7 at Quantum Key West. Conditions were to order, 15 to 17kts of breeze from just east of north, clear blue skies, as Quantum Racing made a solid start on the…
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…
