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Twelve TP52s line up for the 2015 TP52 World Title at Puerto Portals Next week the TP52 fleet return to Puerto Portals, Mallorca for the first time since 2008 when a twelve boat fleet line up to fight for the TP52 World Championship title at the third regatta of the season long 2015 52 SUPER…
Corinna Graf and Agustín Zulueta today launched the 2015 TP52 World Championships, the third event of this season’s 52 SUPER SERIES, which is due to be contested in Mallorca from 13 to 18 July MADRID. (19 June 2015) – The Puerto Portals 52 World Championship 2015 was launched today in Madrid. The prestigious world championship…
There have been probably dozens of photo finishes in the history of the 52 SUPER SERIES but today’s decider between Quantum Racing and long time rivals Azzurra was undoubtedly one of the most exciting ever. That, at 200 metres from the line, there was nothing at all between the American flagged champions and the home…
From two sparking races, one windward-leeward, one coastal, the screws turned ever tighter as the three cornered battle at the top of the fleet at the 52 SUPER SERIES’ Settimana delle Bocche on the Costa Smeralda sees only one point separating the top three teams. Class newcomers Bronenosec, Vladimir Liubomirov’s Russian flagged team which has…
Vladimir Liubomirov’s Bronenosec crew won the first coastal race of the 2015 52 SUPER SERIES season to top the overall leaderboard at the Settimana delle Bocche, but only ahead of the ferociously consistent Quantum Racing by virtue of countback. While the regatta leadership swung from Azzurra to their twin sistership Bronenosec, Doug DeVos’ Quantum Racing…
While different boats won both of the first two races of Sardinia’s Settimana Delle Boche, the second regatta of the 2015 52 SUPER SERIES, as much as glittering race wins may contribute, it was the ability to grind back through the fleet from poor early positions which define the top two positions after the first…
As they do more often than not Azzurra yielded to superstition and bypassed the finish line of today’s official practice race for the second regatta of the 52 SUPER SERIES, Costa Smeralda’s Settimana delle Bocche. Instead of taking the gun Azzurra passed the line and with that delivered the practice race win to Harm Muller-Spreer…
The first regatta of the 2015 52 SUPER SERIES proved there is no real hierarchy established in the white hot TP52 fleet this early in the season. With a very high proportion of race teams still looking to get the best, the final 10-15% per cent of performance, from their newly launched 2015 boats, it…
From the biggest and most competitive fleet yet, Niklas Zennström and the Rán Racing team won the first regatta title of the 2015 SUPER SERIES when they kept their focus under the weight of final day pressure. With Zennström steering and tactician Morgan Larson and strategist Adam Beashel they achieved the required balance between proactive…
Between yesterday and today see sawing fortunes of the top title contenders at the Ford Vignale Valencia Sailing Week may have been tough to deal with on board the two leading TP52s but they have made for compelling viewing on the waters off Malvarrosa Beach as the 52 SUPER SERIES first event of the season…
