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The penultimate day of the 2021 season proved a painful one for the Plattner family’s Phoenix team and so it is was again today as the five regatta 2022 52 SUPER SERIES season tapers down to the final races tomorrow. Last year a broken spinnaker when leading robbed them of their chance to win the…
After a challenging three race day at the 52 SUPER SERIES Barcelona Sailing Week which saw the Tina Plattner steered South African flagged Phoenix score a third, first and a second while the American Quantum Racing netted 14pts, Doug DeVos’ world champions crew have seen their lead on the season standings now cut to only…
Although the ten boat fleet went afloat for most of the afternoon and a race course was set up, in the end there was not enough wind off the Barcelona waterfront today for competition to take place at the 52 SUPER SERIES Barcelona Sailing Week. As the five regatta season nears its conclusion scheduled for…
Light winds prevailed for the first day of the 2022 season title deciding regatta, the 52 SUPER SERIES Barcelona Sailing Week, which saw a comfortable win for Doug DeVos’s Quantum Racing. With De Vos steering they started sharply and with speed at the favoured left, offshore end of the start line and led all the…
Two official training races today gave the ten 52 SUPER SERIES Barcelona Sailing Week teams a final chance to re-acquaint themselves with the race course area and reading the light winds which are likely to prevail this week, on the eve of the races which will decide the final placings of the 2022 season. Race…
The 52 SUPER SERIES will celebrate its tenth anniversary in Barcelona next week by returning to where the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit was started in May 2012 at the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona’s prestigious Trofeo Conde de Godo regatta when five TP52s took the start lines and four completed the full regatta.…
Doug DeVos’ Quantum Racing won the Royal Cup 52 SUPER SERIES Scarlino title today in Tuscany, Italy, their third regatta triumph of the five event 2022 52 SUPER SERIES season. They overturned a one point deficit to triumph by five clear points ahead of Takashi Okura’s Sled and now carry a five points lead forwards…
Just one point separates Sled from second placed Quantum Racing going into Saturday’s two scheduled races which will decide the winners of the Royal Cup, the top trophy for the fourth regatta of the 2022 52 SUPER SERIES season. Just after Sled had augmented their regatta leading margin to six points – thanks to a…
The waters of the Golfo di Follonica, Tuscany continue to deliver excellent racing conditions for the Royal Cup 52 SUPER SERIES Scarlino. With winds gusting over 25kts for Race 5 of the ten race series and a slight drop to 12-15 for Race 6, the 2021 52 SUPER SERIES champions Sled, steered by Takashi Okura,…
After four races at the Royal Cup 52 SUPER SERIES Scarlino regatta in Tuscany, Italy there have now been different winners in every race. Takashi Okura’s 2021 circuit champions Sled are tied with Quantum Racing at the top of the leaderboard while Andy Soriano’s Alegre today moved up to third overall. Alegre’s first place and…
