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Quantum Racing took another step closer to their first 52 SUPER SERIES regatta win since July 2019 when they won the only race sailed today at the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailing Week. Key to their success today was a pre-race evaluation of the breeze variations on the challenging race track. Working with training…
Lighter winds prevailed on Galicia’s beautiful Ria de Vigo as the third day of racing at the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailing Week produced two different race winners and saw Quantum Racing step clear at the top of the leaderboard. While Tony Langley’s British flagged Gladiator team, with Paul Goodison on tactics, read the…
While Quantum Racing made the best of the great conditions on Galicia’s Ría de Vigo on the second day of the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailin Week scoring a first and a second it is Phoenix which has stretched their overall regatta lead to four clear points. Quantum Racing won the first race of…
If the Plattner family’s Phoenix team, with man of the moment Tom Slingsby calling tactics, issued a clear statement of intent when they unrolled a truly comprehensive victory in the first race of the 2022 52 SUPER SERIES season, and with a 1.3 for the day lead the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailing Week…
The 52 SUPER SERIES fleet warmed up for Tuesday’s start of the 2022 season with three good practice races today on the beautiful ría de Vigo off Baiona where the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit is visiting for the very first time in its ten year history. As if to underline how open this…
There were just five points separating first place from fourth and only two points from championship winners Sled from third placed Platoon at the end of the 2021 52 SUPER SERIES season last November in Palma. As the 2022 season starts in Baiona, Galicia on Monday there seems every chance that the final leaderboard will…
The 52 SUPER SERIES fleet arrived in Baiona this week and with it the countdown to the start of the ABANCA 52 SUPER SERIES Baiona Sailing Week starts to feel very real. The preparations for the proud Galician town and the historic yacht club, the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona, have been going…
During the upcoming five regatta season the 52 SUPER SERIES will utilise autonomous remote controlled marks from the German company Smartmark. The buoys were comprehensively tested last season at the Rolex TP52 World Championship in Mallorca. The marks can be precisely remotely controlled to a GPS position said to be accurate to within 11cms. The Smartmark…
The 52 SUPER SERIES, the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit, will mark its historic tenth year of continued success with an exciting five regatta season which will open in May at a beautiful venue which is new to the circuit, Baiona in North West Spain and conclude in October in Barcelona – back where…
Winning by the slimmest of margins Takashi Okura’s TP52 Sled team were crowned 2021’s 52 SUPER SERIES champions and Rolex TP52 World Champions Saturday in Palma, Mallorca. They join Azzurra and Quantum Racing as only the third crew to have won the circuit’s top honours. Holding a lead of one single point on both championships…
