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“The last race was perfect. Everyone was fighting really hard. Even if we had no chance [of winning the Act] we were fighting for it,” Hagara said. “Ultimately the goal is to win an Act and that’s what we plan to do for the next one. We will have to fight quite hard to beat McMillan, but they sailed really well here and deserved to win. Hopefully we can beat them in the next Act. Never give up, always fight for it,” he added.
Going into the final all important double points race two separate battles had emerged on the water including the battle for the final podium place with Oman Air and Alinghi gunning for third place.
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Morgan Larson, whose team won the first Act of the Series in Muscat, Oman, ultimately came out on top.
“It usually does come down to the last race in these events. We probably weren’t sailing well enough today to deserve any better than we got and Alinghi sailed a great day. I think Ernesto [Bertarelli] really found his form today in the breeze and they pushed us hard. It was close. It was a battle all the way,” Larson said.
The battle for positions six to eight was just as tough. Andrew Walsh did well to finish the final race of the day in second place with his British team GAC Pindar but the Brits could not muster better than seventh overall.
The battle for positions six to eight was just as tough. Andrew Walsh did well to finish the final race of the day in second place with his British team GAC Pindar but the Brits could not muster better than seventh overall.
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“It was a good experience. We did better and better day after day. With no training, I think it’s not too bad. It was a bit frustrating sometimes, but all the teams are really good. The exactitude of the boat and of this kind of short race in a stadium. I was more confident today on the start and in the race, more efficient. We had pretty good conditions – windy, lots of public you could hear them,” Le Peutrec said.
Porto has provided a stadium like no other for the Extreme 40s with spectacular sailing and with four Acts complete and four Acts to go, the Series is at its halfway stage. McMillan’s lead may be impressive, but it isn’t unreachable. Next stop is another new venue when the Series will visit the Welsh capital of Cardiff for Act 5 from the 30th August – 2 September.
Extreme Sailing Series 2012 Act 4 Porto, Portugal standings after Day 4, 32 races (08.07.12)
Position / Team / Points
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Extreme Sailing Series 2012 Act 4 Porto, Portugal standings after Day 4, 32 races (08.07.12)
Position / Team / Points
1st The Wave, Muscat (OMA) Leigh McMillan / Ed Smyth / Pete Greenhalgh / Hashim Al Rashdi / Bleddyn Mon 198 points
2nd Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) Roman Hagara / Hans Peter Steinacher / Matthew Adams / Graeme Spence, Pierre Le Clainche 183 points
3rd Oman Air (OMA) Morgan Larson / Will Howden / Charlie Ogletree / Nasser Al Mashari / Andy Maloney 156 points
4th Alinghi (SUI), Ernesto Bertarelli / Jean-Christophe Mourniac / Pierre Yves Jorand / Nils Frei / Yves Detrey 145 points
5th Groupe Edmond de Rothschild (FRA) Pierre Pennec / Arnaud Psarofaghis/ Hervé Cunningham / Bernard Labro / Romain Petit 137 points
6th SAP Extreme Sailing Team (DEN) Jes Gram‐Hansen / Rasmus Kostner / Pete Cumming / Mikkel Rossberg / Jonas Hviid 129 points
7th GAC Pindar (GBR) Andrew Walsh / Nick Rogers/ Mark Bulkeley / Adam Piggot / Jono Macbeth 126 points
8th ZouLou (FRA) Fred Le Peutrec / Philippe Mourniac / Jean-Sébastien Ponce / Bruno Jeanjean / Patrick Aucour 123 points
Extreme Sailing Series 2012 Overall Series Results after Act 4, Porto
Position / Team / Points
1 The Wave, Muscat 39 points
2 Red Bull Sailing Team 33 points
3 Oman Air Team 31 points
4 Groupe Edmond de Rothschild 31 points
5 GAC Pindar 22 points
6 Alinghi 18 points
7 SAP Extreme Sailing Team 18 points
8 ZouLou 16 points
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