Press Release

  • Making the Last Day Count

    (Friday 22nd July, Puerto Portals) – As the 52 SUPER SERIES moves to Spain for the Puerto Portals Sailing Week, the third regatta of the season, the desire amongst the ten competing teams is to make the last day count. Consistency across the first racing days is a fundamental component of winning on the highly…

  • Quantum Racing Triumphant in Fizzing Porto Cervo Finale

    (Saturday 2nd July, Sardinia) – Quantum Racing won the Audi Settimana delle Bocche Regatta, the second event of the 2016 52 SUPER SERIES, outsailing Niklas Zennström’s Rán Racing on a breezy final day of racing on the Costa Smeralda. 

When Zennström’s team faltered on the penultimate windward-leeward of the nine-race series, dropping a ninth into…

  • Die Another Day….Quantum Racing Comeback Keeps them On Course

    (Friday 1st July, Sardinia) – While Niklas Zennström’s crew of Rán Racing continued a rich vein of form, winning the second race of the day at the Audi Settimana delle Bocche on the Costa Smeralda, the regatta leaders Quantum Racing staged a big comeback to stay on track for their second regatta win of the…

  • A Fistful of Winners

    (Thursday 30th June, Sardinia) – The overall regatta lead at the Audi Settimana delle Bocche regatta on the Costa Smeralda has changed with each and every race so far. But by winning the second race today, a windward-leeward, Quantum Racing take a clear two point lead at the top of the standings at this second…

  • Underdogs and Top Dogs Sniff Out the Best Breeze on the Costa Smeralda

    In a shifting, challenging light-breeze which kept tacticians and the race officer on their toes, home favourites Azzurra scored their first race win of the 52 SUPER SERIES season and now earn a share of the lead at the Audi Settimana delle Bocche, which they won last year. The gentle breeze moved 50 degrees right…

  • Provezza’s Pair of Threes Trumps 52 SUPER SERIES Fleet in Porto Cervo

    Provezza finished last month’s Scarlino Cup regatta under a cloud. On the last run of the last race they slid down the leaderboard from a respectable fourth to a disappointing eighth. 
Ergin Imre’s team bounced right back today opening the Audi Settimana delle Bocche regatta with a nice pair of solid third places to lead…

  • A Definitive Dozen at the Audi Settimana delle Bocche

    (Friday 24th June, Sardinia) – The 52 SUPER SERIES fleet of TP52s grows in numbers for the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda’s renowned Audi Settimana delle Bocche which starts on Monday with the first official practice race. Peter Harrison and his crew of Sorcha step into the 52 SUPER SERIES arena for their very first time…

  • Back in the US of A

    The 52 SUPER SERIES will return to the USA in 2017 for the third time since 2013. The world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit restricted activity to Europe in 2015 and 2016 as the latest generation of new TP52s was launched in the Spring of 2015 and this season is one of consolidation. The board…

  • Quantum Racing Triumphant in Scarlino

    (Sunday 29th May, Scarlino) – Displaying their hallmark high level of consistency at a challenging new venue for the 52 SUPER SERIES, Quantum Racing won the opening regatta of the season – the Scarlino Cup on Tuscany’s Golfo di Follonica. The Ed-Baird-skippered crew finished no worse than fourth over the eight race series to secure…

  • Sunday Finale Sees Quantum Favourites

    (Saturday 28th May, Scarlino) – Takashi Okura’s Sled won the only race of the 52 SUPER SERIES’ Scarlino Cup today but a second place by Harm Müller Spreer’s Platoon takes the German-flagged team to within four points of regatta leaders Quantum Racing with one day of racing left. 

Ed Baird steered Quantum Racing to another…