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20 May 2012
Artemis Racing win the Match Racing Championships in Venice
Light air, plenty of current and countless lead changes, made for
dramatic racing for the thousands of spectators who lined the race
course for the final day of the America's Cup World Series in Venice.
Having defeated Energy Team in the Match Racing Semi-Finals yesterday,
Artemis lined up against Luna Rossa - Piranha for the Finals. The
Italians battled and kept the pressure on, but were unable to defeat
Artemis who indextain their position at the top of the ACWS Match Racing
leaderboard after the five World Series events.
"We executed exactly what we planned to do in the pre-start. We wanted
to dial up Luna Rossa and get them to commit to starboard, then bear
off onto port to deploy,” said Skipper Terry Hutchinson. “It couldn’t
have gone better, but it was a tricky race. On the first run we split
at the top, it was touch and go, but we snuck across and stuck to our
convictions on the second beat. Luna Rossa kept asking the question
and our guys kept responding.”
"We had a good result in Naples and now here, in quite different
conditions. The nice thing about the match racing at these regattas is
that we've executed our game plan. We're starting to feel that the
training is paying off for us."
The Super Sunday fleet race followed and France's Energy Team
dominated, while the rest of the fleet shuffled for position. Artemis
Racing and Luna Rossa – Piranha were both over early at the start, but
Terry and the team battled their way back to 3^rd place for a podium
finish.
"It was a big, eight-car pile-up at the first corner. We were sailing
to win today, over a little early on the start, but the guys did great
work to get us back in. Some great gybes down the first run. We got out
of sync with the fleet, and that allowed us back into the race," said
Terry. "Yesterday was disappointing, but we debriefed it intensely.
It was nice to come back today and sail in the way that we know how to
sail. It was a really good team day.”
The team now returns to Valencia to continue training with the AC72
wing before the next ACWS event in Newport from 27 June – 1 July.
©Artemis Racing/Sander van der Borch
Artemis Racing
Artemis Racing is the Challenger of Record for the 34^th America’s Cup.
Artemis Racing competes in the America’s Cup World Series, RC44
Championship Tour and Vulcain Trophy.
www.artemisracing.com
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