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As to the key to their success, Lah commented: “We just tried to keep it simple – nothing else and to avoid the crowd.It paid off. It was really nice conditions today. A little bit shifty, but not too much. I really love it when it is 20+ knots downwind. Flying downwind today was really cool.”
Sadly the team to lose out to the forceful Russians was John Bassadone’s Peninsula Petroleum that had a strong start to the week. Having taken over the series leader’s ‘golden wheels’ going into this regatta, the local heroes were viewed as favourites on their home waters.
Going into the final race, Peninsula Petroleum and Bronenosec were tied on points and on the first beat it became evident that, rather than match race each other, they were going to sail their own races. Bassadone’s team headed out to the extreme left while Bronenosec took the extreme right. Ultimately Lah’s team came home third to the local boat’s sixth – enough to secure Bronenosec the regatta win.
“I don’t think that made the difference,” said Bassadone of the split. “At one point going up the first beat we were ahead of Synergy – and they won the race – but that’s how it has been. We watched where they [Bronenosec] were, but it was so shifty that you needed to go the right way.”
Bronenosec’s tactician Michele Ivaldi agreed: “The reality was during the race there were four lead changes. We kept pushing for every metre and until the last cross downwind we didn’t put it to bed. It was fantastic.”
Apart from the result, Bassadone said he was pleased with the way the RC44 Puerto Sotogrande Cup had gone. “It has been brilliant. The organisers have done a very good job and it has been a real success. We are very happy and from what I hear everybody else has had a good time. Puerto Sotogrande would be happy to have us back -I hope soon, maybe in 2016.”
However the good news for Bassadone is that in the overall results, Peninsula Petroleum remains overall leaders in the RC44 Championship Tour fleet racing, now that the discards have kicked in after three regattas. She remains on three points joint with Chris Bake’s Team Aqua and with Synergy Russian Sailing Team on five.
RC44 Puerto Sotogrande Cup Ranking after 11 races
1. Bronenosec Sailing Team 6 5 3 3 5 1 5 6 4 4 3 – 45
2. Synergy Russian Sailing Team 8 2 2 6 7 5 9 2 5 1 1 – 48
3. Peninsula Petroleum Sailing Team 1 3 5 11 1 4 2 4 6 5 6 – 48
4. Gazprom Youth Sailing Challenge
5 1 8 10 2 9 3 1 3 2 9 – 53
5. Artemis Racing 9 7 1 4 6 3 1 9 1 11 5 – 57
6. Team Aqua 3 9 6 2 8 6 8 3 8 8 4 – 65
7. Aleph Racing 2 4 11 7 3 8 10 10 2 3 8 – 68
8. Charisma 10 6 7 8 4 7 6 5 9 6 2 – 70
9. Team Nika 4 10 9 1 11 2 7 7 7 7 7 – 72
10. Katusha 7 8 4 5 9 10 4 8 11 9 11 – 86
11. MAG Racing 11 11 10 9 10 12 (OCS) 11 11 10 10 10 -115
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