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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…
Edward de Souza Ramos is the prominent Brazilian owner who has commissioned a new Botin Partners designed TP52 which is under construction at King Marine in Valencia, Spain just now. The boat, the ninth TP52 which the company have built, is well advanced in production, right on schedule for a launch in March prior to…
Azzurra completed a crucial gun to gun victory in the final race of the Audi Settimana del Bocche regatta to win the final regatta of the 52 SUPER SERIES season and deny 2013 champions Quantum Racing the clean sweep of all four European regattas. Quantum Racing and Ran Racing crossed the start line early and…
Rán Racing stole their second victory of the 52 SUPER SERIES Audi Settimana delle Bocche regatta when they just managed to deal with the sudden arrival of a SE’ly Scirroco breeze which allowed them to pass race leaders Quantum Racing in the final half mile to the finish line. Azzurra hold their regatta lead but…
This is the decisive day for Azzurra. And so it is too for others. The home town team can deliver their first regatta win of the 52 SUPER SERIES as they go afloat today for two, or possibly three, windward-leeward races, the last of the 2013 season for the 52 fleet. Azzurra have a three…
