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Photo: Xaume Olleros / 52 Super Series |
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Photo: Xaume Olleros / 52 Super Series |
Azzurra started badly after a series of dramas with an engine malfunction and radio issues that saw them last off the start line. But the Italian team recovered well from their pre-race mishaps and fought their way back through the fleet. Provezza lead to the first mark and then managed to hang on to second most of the way around the course before slipping back and crossing the finish line in fourth place, a split second behind Quantum Racing.
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Photo: Xaume Olleros / 52 Super Series |
"We lost to Azzurra by only a few seconds and beat Quantum Racing by a second or two at the most, so it was great racing.We like it when it is shifty and the fact that we had no instruments at all in a sense it makes you better sailors, you have to work harder to be smarter,” Rey added.
After last month's disappointing result in Ibiza, Rán were back to form. They were quick to capitalise on the stronger wind pressure on the right on the long first upwind beat and pushed Provezza hard around the windward mark where they managed to overhaul them with a better gennaker set.
Provezza maintained second until the last minutes of the final run. As the breeze started to fade Azzurra held to the left, inshore for longer and were able to pip the Turkish flagged team who then lost third to Quantum Racing but one second.
“It was a very different wind direction to normal. In fact I have never sailed here in that direction before. Ado (Adrian Stead, tactician) was picking his brains to try and remember a time like this from before. But between him and Andy Hemmings they did a very good job in finding us the best breeze and getting us up the track, Rán Racing’s navigator Jules Salter said.
"Ultimately it was recognising there was a bit more wind pressure on the right and that was about using the windshifts well to get over there. It was quite a long beat, a bit longer than we are used to in the 52 fleet so far this season, so you really had to dig in and be there for the whole of the beat and it came good for us in the end,” he added.
Results, Race 1:
52 SUPER SERIES
1 Rán Racing, SWE, (N Zennström)
2 Azzurra, ITA, (A Roemmers)
3 Quantum Racing, USA, (D DeVos)
4 Provezza, TUR, (E Imre)
5 Interlodge, USA, (A Fragomen)
6 Rio, USA, (M Moshayedi)
7 Gladiator, GBR, (T Langley)
8 Aquila, AUT, (Aquila Sailing Team)
9 Paprec, FRA, (Jean Luc Petithugenin)
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Photo: Xaume Olleros / 52 Super Series |
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Photo: Xaume Olleros / 52 Super Series |
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Photo: Xaume Olleros / 52 Super Series |
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Photo: Xaume Olleros / 52 Super Series |
Results, Race 1:
52 SUPER SERIES
1 Rán Racing, SWE, (N Zennström)
2 Azzurra, ITA, (A Roemmers)
3 Quantum Racing, USA, (D DeVos)
4 Provezza, TUR, (E Imre)
5 Interlodge, USA, (A Fragomen)
6 Rio, USA, (M Moshayedi)
7 Gladiator, GBR, (T Langley)
8 Aquila, AUT, (Aquila Sailing Team)
9 Paprec, FRA, (Jean Luc Petithugenin)
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