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May 19 2011

 

Container Fill The Top Spot On Their Audi Medcup Circuit Debut
It was one of the Audi MedCup Circuit's TP52 debutants, Udo Schutz's famous Container team from Germany, which proved the most consistent performer across the two races which opened the 2011 season at the Cascais Trophy in Portugal.
A pair of well earned second places, behind the Synergy Russian Sailing Team in the first heat and Italy's Audi Azzurra Sailing Team, was enough to give Markus Wieser (GER) and crew a lead of two clear points after their first ever races as a crew in the fleet.
The Container team, with Hamish Pepper (NZL) calling tactics, built their pair of second places from solid, if not spectacular first beats and twice in consecutive races they got the better of the world champions, Quantum Racing on the final run to the finish.
The German backed crew made no big errors, and - crucially - were always taking places rather than going backwards in the tough fleet. Indeed it was Quantum Racing which managed to maintain the same consistency. Ed Baird (USA) and crew collected two third places to lie third on count back.
Racing in 13-18kts of mainly northerly breeze, with the windward-mark set just off Cabo Raso, to the west of Cascais, the wind carried the typical hallmarks which the Portuguese capital's sailing centre has long been known for - big differences in wind pressure and shifts in direction- plenty for the tacticians and strategists to work with. And there was more than enough wind strength to punish any crewing errors.
In the Soto 40 fleet it was Iberdrola Sailing Team (ESP) which proved their supremacy, gained through a solid training programme off their Valencia base, when they won the first practice race of the season. But it is only tomorrow, Thursday, that points racing begins for this exciting new class for the first time ever in Europe.
Cascais Trophy
52 Series
Day 1
1. Container (GER), 2+2 = 4 points
2. Audi Azzurra Sailing Team (ITA), 5+1= 6 points
3. Quantum Racing (USA), 3+3= 6 points
4. Synergy Russian Sailing Team (RUS), 1+6. 7 points
5. Ràn (SUE), 6+4= 10 points
6. Bribon (ESP), 4+7= 11 points
7. Audi Sailing Team Powered by All4One (EUR), 7+5= 12 points
8. Gladiator (GBR), DNC+DNC=18 points

Wieser sails Container To Top Spot On Their Audi Medcup Circuit Debut

It was one of the Audi MedCup Circuit's TP52 debutants, Udo Schutz's famous Container team from Germany, which proved the most consistent performer across the two races which opened the 2011 season at the Cascais Trophy in Portugal.

A pair of well earned second places, behind the Synergy Russian Sailing Team in the first heat and Italy's Audi Azzurra Sailing Team, was enough to give Markus Wieser (GER) of the Marinepool Racing Team and crew a lead of two clear points after their first ever races as a crew in the fleet.

The Container team, with Hamish Pepper (NZL) calling tactics, built their pair of second places from solid, if not spectacular first beats and twice in consecutive races they got the better of the world champions, Quantum Racing on the final run to the finish.

The German backed crew made no big errors, and - crucially - were always taking places rather than going backwards in the tough fleet. Indeed it was Quantum Racing which managed to maintain the same consistency. Ed Baird (USA) and crew collected two third places to lie third on count back.

Racing in 13-18kts of mainly northerly breeze, with the windward-mark set just off Cabo Raso, to the west of Cascais, the wind carried the typical hallmarks which the Portuguese capital's sailing centre has long been known for - big differences in wind pressure and shifts in direction- plenty for the tacticians and strategists to work with. And there was more than enough wind strength to punish any crewing errors.

In the Soto 40 fleet it was Iberdrola Sailing Team (ESP) which proved their supremacy, gained through a solid training programme off their Valencia base, when they won the first practice race of the season. But it is only tomorrow, Thursday, that points racing begins for this exciting new class for the first time ever in Europe.

Cascais Trophy52 Series

Day 1

1. Container (GER), 2+2 = 4 points

2. Audi Azzurra Sailing Team (ITA), 5+1= 6 points

3. Quantum Racing (USA), 3+3= 6 points

4. Synergy Russian Sailing Team (RUS), 1+6. 7 points

5. Ràn (SUE), 6+4= 10 points

6. Bribon (ESP), 4+7= 11 points

7. Audi Sailing Team Powered by All4One (EUR), 7+5= 12 points

8. Gladiator (GBR), DNC+DNC=18 points

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