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Monday, 30 August 2010 |
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(Photo - Ainhoa Sanchez - Audi MedCup)
Emirates
Team New Zealand’s return to Cartagena proved something of a repeat performance
as the 2009 Audi MedCup champions retained the overall Caja Mediterráneo Region
of Murcia Trophy for the second year in a row on the same waters where they
clinched the overall TP52 Series championships title last year.
The
Kiwis seemed to have sailed an almost blemish free regatta, consistent across
the broad wind range through the event, emerging triumphant at the dockside
with a comfortable cushion on second placed Matador, but the jury subsequently
disqualified them from the second race of the day for infringing Quantum Racing
at the first windward mark.
The protest outcome cut the Kiwi winning margin to 10 points over Matador (ARG)
but the reigning Audi MedCup title holders head to next month’s season’s finale
in Sardinia with a lead of 46.5 points, just ahead of the target that the Dean
Barker skippered crew had considered their realistic target.
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 |
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Back-to-back
wins in today’s rich diet of one windward-leeward race followed by an exciting
20 miles coastal race sees Emirates Team New Zealand seize the overall lead of
the Caja Mediterráneo Region of Murcia Trophy regatta for the TP52 Series.
In
blustery winds which topped 22 knots at times and produced some exciting
downwind racing, the Kiwi Audi MedCup 2009 champions produced a performance
which was entirely reminiscent of their dominant form here last year when they
clinched the 2009 overall title. They lead Quantum Racing across the finish
line of the windward-leeward, and were comfortably ahead of Artemis in the
coastal circuit.
The two winning guns for Emirates Team New Zealand
contrasted sharply with the fortunes of TeamOrigin. After a hard won third in
the windward-leeward the British team still lead the regatta overall by six
points but in the coastal race Ben Ainslie’s crew broke their forestay and had
to struggle around the final four miles of the 20 miles circuit under mainsail
only finishing 11th.
Emirates Team New Zealand’s afterguard read the breeze and current pattern best
and were able to use their speed edge in the brisk conditions to win the
windward-leeward – gaining more than 30 seconds on the downwind, choosing an
inshore line against Matador who had rounded the first mark in second place.
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 |
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(Photo - Andrea Francolini/Audi)
“It was a battle to the end, but obviously the best
boat and crew have been victorious,” Uwe Hagen said on handing Stephen
Ainsworth the keys outside the Hamilton Island Yacht Club this afternoon.
“I’m speechless,“ Ainsworth said when told of his win.
“I was sitting on my boat this afternoon thinking “I’ve lost the Audi; you’ve
made my wife very happy, because I promised her the car if I won it – she’s
been checking it out to see if the golf clubs will fit in the boot,“ he said.
Ainsworth confessed he had taken his wife Nanette and
friends sailing in today’s final race, thinking he had just missed out on
winning. “I even steered to give Gordon (Maguire) a break for the day – we just
went out to have a bit of fun.“ Fortunately, that fun translated into a second
place.
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