Press Release
(Saturday 25th August, Puerto Portals) – The Bay of Palma served up a week of mostly atypical, unsettled and changeable summer sea breeze conditions for the fourth regatta of the 2018 52 SUPER SERIES season, the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week. The challenges to the tacticians, helms and speed teams of the ten…
(Friday 24th August, Puerto Portals) – The 2017 regatta on the Bay of Palma enjoyed the closest of finishes, this 2018 edition is shaping up for a repeat performance. Though they had their worst day of the regatta so far, returning a sixth and an eighth, Quantum Racing go into the final day of the…
(Thursday 23rd August, Puerto Portals) – It may have looked like a relatively straightforward summer sea breeze on the Bay of Palma, but today’s two races contested by the ten TP52s at the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week proved particularly hard to read. The fact that is was difficult to retain a high…
After a breezy, spectacular Rolex TP52 World Championship in Cascais last month, the Bay of Palma served up a typical Pandora’s Box of sea breeze delights for the first three races of the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week. Although the general trend was for the gains to be made on the right side…
(Monday 20th August, Puerto Portals) – After winning the Official Practice Race, today Quantum Racing proved they are probably the form team to beat on the Bay of Palma when the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES starts Tuesday. With owner driver Doug DeVos back on the helm at his first regatta since June’s Zadar…
The Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week Starts Tuesday Puerto Portals is the fourth regatta of five, Quantum Racing lead the season standings by 19pts. Two teams have won 2018 regattas so far, will Puerto Portals see a different victor? America’s Cup winner and Olympic champion, Peter Burling (NZL), tactician, is on board returning…
The 52 SUPER SERIES has teamed up with Bluewater, a world leader in water purification technologies and solutions, to deliver contaminant-free, pure, chilled, still-or-sparking water to competing sailors and visitors. Sharing a common pledge to turn the tide on the plastic tsunami threatening human and planet health, the 52 SUPER SERIES has partnered with Bluewater…
(Saturday 21st July, Cascais) – Ten years after their first world title together in the class’ formative years in Lanzarote, Quantum Racing today lifted the Rolex TP52 World Championship crown in Cascais, winning a spirited ding-dong battle with rivals Azzurra in the typically muscular Atlantic breezes that the Portuguese hotspot has long since been renowned…
(Friday 20th July, Cascais) – Quantum Racing carry a seven-point lead into the final day of the Rolex TP52 World Championship off Cascais, to all intents and purposes a relatively healthy margin, even with the expectation of two breezy last races for a nine-boat fleet. But Terry Hutchinson, the US-flagged five-time world champions’ hard-driving leader…
(Thursday 19th July, Cascais) – Quantum Racing won the exciting, interesting Coastal Race off Cascais, Portugal, to extend their lead at the Rolex TP52 World Championship to seven points with four scheduled races left to sail. While the five-time world title winners delivered an accomplished victory – never far enough ahead of the pack to…
