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22 May 2011
Delivery day for Quantum Racing and Iberdrola?

The final day of the Cascais Trophy and the weather pattern which has been established for the last few days looks set to continue as Quantum Racing and Iberdrola seek to retain their overall regatta leads in the 52 Series and the 40 Series respectively.

Regatta wins are always important along the way but they are the bonus. One thing is clear with the compact, tight fleets is that it will be much less easy to build a big margin. Recall how Emirates Team New Zealand left Cascais last year with a 20 points lead. That size of margin will of course be much harder to achieve.

But Quantum Racing have won four races from seven starts including yesterday’s coastal race and go on the water with a lead of 5.5 points ahead of Audi Azzurra Sailing Team and Container.

Sieger Quantum
Foto: © Guido Trombetta_Studio Borlenghi/Audi MedCup

Iberdrola

And Iberdrola lead by six points ahead of the two Portuguese Soto 40’s which are locked on 22 points each, XXII Portuguese Sailing Team twice getting second place yesterday while Bigamist got two second places.

The forecast predicts another day of stiff Portuguese tradewinds sailing with up to 21kts in the afternoon, and the NW’ly has already been prominent this morning.

Wind speeds should be between 8 and 17kts around 1300hrs from between 330 and 350 degs, start time, building as time goes on.
And, as usual, on the final day of each regatta, no start sequence can begin after 15:30hrs and for the Soto 40s that is 15:37hrs.

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1) Cascais Trophy, 21 05 2011 © Guido Trombetta_Studio Borlenghi/Audi MedCup