52 SUPER SERIES - AUDI SETTIMANA DELLE BOCCHE INTERLOCUTORY DAY IN PORTO CERVO

Porto Cervo, June 29 2016 - It was an interlocutory day in Porto Cervo, where Yacht Club Costa Smeralda is hosting the Audi Settimana delle Bocche, event valid as second appointment of the 52 Super Series circuit.   A weak and unstable breeze suggested to the Race Committee to cancel the expected coastal race, replaced by a a single windward-leeward race, characterized by a couple of course changes and shortened on the final run. 

 

A really difficult situation, well managed by Azzurra (Parada-Vascotto), winner in front of Xio Hurakan (Serafini-Chieffi), that recovered well after yesterday mast breakage, and Quantum Racing (Baird-Hutchinson), now leader of the ranking tied with the Guillermo Parada's crew.

Bronenosec Gazprom (Liubomirov-Ivaldi) raced quite well, making some interesting moves, but had to negotiate its performance with the continuos wind shifts, ending the race in eighth position, between Platoon (Muller Spreer-Wieser) and Alegre (Soriano-Harrapp). By virtue of today's results, Vladimir Liubomirov's TP52 is now seventh in the overall ranking, between Ran Racing (Zennstrom-Larson) and Xiu Hurakan.

Alberto Barovier, team manager and bowman of the Saint Petersburg Yacht Club bearer hull, explained: "We found some challenging conditions out there: the light breeze was decreasing and really unstable. We sailed well upwind and downwind, but with these constantly changing conditions it was quite impossible to remain in phase with the wind: actually we gained in the first part of the race and we lost a couple of positions in the final stages. We hope for tomorrow in better weather situation, although the forecasts appear not so different respect today".

The Audi Settimana delle Bocche will resume tomorrow around noon, with at least two other windward-leeward races.

In Porto Cervo, Bronenosec Gazprom is sailed by Vladimir Liubomirov (owner-driver), Michele Ivaldi (skipper-tactician), Adrian Stead (strategist), Francesco Mongelli (navigator), Victor Serezhkin (backstay), Paul Westlake (mainsail trimmer), Claudio Celon (trimmer), Zack Hurst (trimmer), Emanuele Marino (grinder), Pietro Mantovani (grinder), Andy Fethers (pitman), Alex Kulakov (floater), Michele Cannoni (mid-bow) and Alberto Barovier (team manager-bowman). The team activity is coordinated by the coach Francesco de Angelis while the shore team leader is Francesco Binetti Pozzi.

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The season of Bronenosec Sailing Team is supported by Gazprom, Garmin, FSE Robline, USail and Meteowind.

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