52 SUPER SERIES Saint-Tropez Sailing WeekNews
Niklas Zennström and the Rán Racing team secured the Gaastra 52 World Championship title on the final run of the last race of the series after a thrilling showdown off Miami’s South Beach up against 52 SUPER SERIES champions and former world champions Azzurra. Although Rán Racing started the three race finale with a lead…
With up to three races planned for the Saturday showdown for the Gaastra 52 World Championships title the four point lead of Rán Racing is still very tenable. Azzurra are the closest title contenders but really need to not onlybeat Rán but put boats between them early in the day to give themselves a fighting…
Rounding off a long day on the sun drenched waters off Miami’s South Beach with their fourth race win from seven starts, Niklas Zennström’s Rán Racing lead the Gaastra 52 World Championships by four clear points going in to Saturday, the final racing day. Competition has been brought forward by one hour to try and…
Three races sailed off beautiful South Beach in flat water and 9-12 knots meant racing was extremely close all day, with Gladiator having impressive 1-3 finishes in the first two races, but then succumbing to penalty troubles to get pushed to the back of the pack in the third race. Other newcomers to the podium…
A long day on the water is expected for the Gaastra 52 World Championship fleet after Thursday’s scheduled races were lost due to the lack of breeze. So the intention is to try and run three races today to try and get the regatta back close to programme. The breeze is forecast to be from…
Racing at the Gaastra 52 World Championships off South Beach Miami had to be abandoned today, Thursday, when the light, fickle breezes proved too little to complete a fair race. Race 5 of the series was started and ran in very light, streaky and shifty conditions. After over an hour and within only 300 metres…
Another day of offshore breezes, blowing from the NW and veering to the N, promises Day 3 of the Gaastra 52 World Championships will be another challenging one for the eight teams competing. As we will pass the theoretical half way point of the series today it appears as if the three top teams have…
Niklas Zennström’s Rán Racing are the new leaders of the Gasstra 52 World Championship after they won both of today’s races in great sailing conditions off Miami’s Key Biscayne. Rán Racing excelled in the stronger breezes, blowing from an offshore direction which brought some fast downwind runs in the puffy, gusty wind which peaked at…
Rán Racing came out swinging today, building momentum after a win in yesterday’s last race to win both today and take the lead in the series from Azzurra. Solid starts from owner-helmsman Niklas Zennström and near-perfect tactical calls from Adrian Stead put them into early leads that they held and even extended on the trailing…
After the light winds opening day for the Gaastra 52 World Championship off Miami Beach Day 2 seems to promise more breeze but it is likely to be at least as challenging again for the tacticians as the wind direction will be mainly offshore. Factor in the expectation of a front passing though during the…
