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Audi MedCup Circuit 2010 - Cascais
12.-17. Mai 2009
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16 May 2010
Audi MedCup Circuit Champions in Command in Cascais
The current Audi MedCup champions proved they have lost nothing from
their competitive edge as they both opened their respective 2010
season with resounding wins in the Portugal Trophy, Cascais.
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After another day of muscular breezes which produced fantastic racing
conditions off Sintra, just to the west of Cascais, Emirates Team New
Zealand (NZL) and Puerto Calero (ESP) had both set up unassailable
regatta leads, clinching their respective trophies with a race to
spare.
Through the five events of the 2010 Audi MedCup season, regatta
trophies are a bonus, and this is Emirates Team New Zealand’s fifth
successive regatta title in a row, but the dominant Kiwi crew will be
even more content to leave Portugal with a comprehensive lead of 20
points over Franco-German Circuit newcomers AudiA1 powered by
All4ONE.
AudiA1 powered by All4ONE may have finished with a sixth in the final
race of the regatta, but the team which is headed by four times
Olympic Jochen Schuemann (GER), finished consistently in the top half
of the fleet through the second half of the regatta to prove they
have the talent and the tools to be podium contenders. It is
Schuemann’s best podium finish on the Circuit, bettering his third
in Puerto Portals in 2008 with Platoon Powered by Team Germany.
The tough conditions produced a typically bruising final day which
placed big demands on crew work and equipment. Emirates Team New
Zealand proved, once again, a cut above the rest in the breeze but
there were gennakers shredded again today and several teams not
managing to convert on the final day, due to mechanical or sail
failures, whether or not they were the product of crewing errors.
The British America’s Cup crew lost their gennaker sheet under the
boat during the first race to finish 10th. For some of the time today
Ben Ainslie (GBR) and the TeamOrigin (GBR) crew looked like an truly
exceptional unit, leading again during the first race of the day, but
they still have a speed deficit downwind which needs rectifying.
And Artemis (SWE) who were challenging Audi A1 powered by ALL4ONE for
second overall damaged their bowsprit when they tussled with
TeamOrigin (GBR) on the start line of the second race today and lost
the use of their gennaker for some of the time.
For the local team on Pedro Mendonca’s (POR) Bigamist 7 (POR) there
was a boost to their morale when they won the first race of the day,
heading Emirates Team New Zealand across the finish line to win, Race
9, the Cacscais based team’s ninth Audi MedCup win since getting
Bigamist 7 last year.
So, too, the 2008 Audi MedCup TP52 champions Quantum Racing (USA)
leave Portugal with their belief restored that they can be serious
contenders this season, not least by winning the last race of the
regatta.
The absence on Thursday and Friday due to injury of skipper helm
Terry Hutchinson (USA) tells its own story as Quantum Racing won
Wednesday’s first and today’s last race of the regatta.
Without question Cascais on its first time on the AudiMed Cup Circuit
has delivered as one of the best venues yet on the Audi MedCup
Circuit offering a full programme of 10 races for the TP52 Series and
nine races for the GP42 in winds which must have averaged over 15
knots.
GP42 Puerto Calero wins first battle in the war
Showing yet another display of near-flawless sailing in stronger
breezes, Puerto Calero (ESP) scored a first and second on the final
day to win this first battle in the five regattas long war that is
the 2010 GP42 Series.
Their consistency, speed and error-free sailing in the challenging
20-25 knot conditions seem suited to this Canarias-based team.
Puerto Calero’s wide-body 2009 Botin & Carkeek-designed hull design
was perfectly suited to the fresh breeze.
Madrid-Caser Seguros (ESP) won the last race today and finished this
regatta as runner-up.
The GP42 fleet was cut down by one in today’s racing by the
unfortunate damage sustained by Peninsula Petroleum (GBR) when their
masthead crane snapped within an hour prior to the start of the first
race.
Nonetheless, the racing among the reindexing four was still intense,
with AIRISESSENTIAL (ITA) making great starts and progress upwind to
always round the top marks in second, but then struggling a bit
downwind in the fresh conditions, and the whole pack within seconds
of each other at each turn.
The next regatta on the Audi MedCup Circuit is the Marseille Trophy
from June 15th to 20th.
Portugal Trophy, Cascais
Overall
TP52 Series
1. Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL), 6+11+1+1+4+2+1+1,5+2+2= 31,5
points
2. Audi A1 powered by ALL4ONE (FRA/GER), 9+7+4+6+1+5+5+4,5+4+6= 51,5
3. Artemis (SWE), 3+6+7+8+3+7+2+6+6+9= 57
4. Quantum Racing (USA), 1+5+8+2+10+9+8+10,5+5+1= 59,5
5. TeamOrigin (GBR), 4+9+2+4+2+1+7+13,5+10+7= 59,5
6. Matador (ARG), 7+2+5+9+8+12(DSQ)+6+3+3+5= 60
7. Synergy (RUS), 8+1+6+3+5+8+3+15+11+4= 64
8. Cristabella (GBR), 2+8+3+5+9+6+10+12+7+3= 65
9. Luna Rossa (ITA), 5+3+9+10+6+3+9+16,5+8+8= 77,5
10. Bribón (ESP), 10+10+10+12(DNC)+7+4+4+7,5+9+9(RDG)= 82,5
11. Bigamist 7 (POR), 11+4+11+7+11+10+12(DNF)+9+1+12(DSQ)= 88
GP42 Series
1. Puerto Calero (ESP), 1+1+2+1+2+3+1+1+2= 14 points
2. Madrid-Caser Seguros (ESP), 3+2+3+2+1+4+1+6(DSQ)+1= 24
3. Iberdrola (ESP), 2+5+1+3+3+1+5+2+3= 25
4. AIRISESSENTIAL (ITA), 5+4+5+4+6(DNF)+2+4+3+4= 37
5. Peninsula Petroleum (GBR), 4+3+4+5+4+5+3+6(DNS)+6(DNS)= 40
Daily highlights during the competition days – Footage available
for download from FTP:ftp.medcupdownloads.info
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Pictures rights free for editorial use only:
1) Portugal Trophy, Cascais 16 05 2010 05 2010 © Francesco
Ferri_Studio Borlenghi/Audi MedCup
2) Portugal Trophy, Cascais 16 05 2010 © Francesco Ferri_Studio
Borlenghi/Audi MedCup
3) Portugal Trophy, Cascais 16 05 2010 © Francesco Ferri_Studio
Borlenghi/Audi MedCup
4) Portugal Trophy, Cascais 16 05 2010 © Francesco Ferri_Studio
Borlenghi/Audi MedCup
5) TP42 Day4 © Nico Martinez/Audi MedCup
Event 1:Cascais (Portugal) 11 - 16 May
Event 2:Marseille (France) 15 - 20 June
Event 3:Barcelona (Spain) 20 - 25 July
Event 4:Cartagena (Spain) 24 - 29 August
Event 5:Cagliari (Italy) 20 - 25 September
Sabina Mollart-Rogerson
16.05.2010 - Audi MedCup Circuit Champions in Command
16.05.2010 - Champions in the driving seat
15.05.2010 - Emirates Team New Zealand win their first coastal race
15.05.2010 - First coastal of the season, GP42's do two races
14.05.2010 - Champions in the lead
14.05.2010 - TeamOrigin (GBR) go into Race 6
13.05.2010 - TeamOrigin 1851 and Puerto Calero lead the Portugal Trophy
12.05.2010 - First blood to Britain's Cristabella in Cascais
11.05.2010 - Cristabella wins the Portugal Trophy practice race
10.05.2010 - Counting down to Race 1 2010
07.05.2010 - Public Village opens Saturday in Cascais
27.04.2010 - The world's top sailors in Cascais
23.03.2010 - 2010 Audi MedCup : five trophies, five names
18.02.2010 - Barcelona and Cascais join the Audi MedCup Circuit
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