TP52 SUPER SERIES - PUERTO PORTALS SAILING WEEK AT THE EVE OF THE FINAL DAY BRONENOSEC GAZPROM RETURNS ON THE PODIUM

Puerto Portals, July 28th 2016 - When at the conclusion of the Puerto Portals Sailing Week still miss just two races, Bronenosec Gazprom (Liubomirov-Ivaldi, 8-1) confirms itself as third force of the fleet with three points margin on Provezza (Imre-Beadsworth, 9-6) while the first hour leader Quantum Racing (DeVos-Hutchinson, 1-3) mortgaged the victory thanks a nine points gap imposed to Azzurra (Parada-Vascotto, 2-7). Also today in the Palma Bay the 52 Super Series fleet met some South-Westerly sea breeze, that blew more sluggishly than yesterday.

The bearer hull of the Saint Petersburg Yacht Club, that is leading the Puerto Portals Sailing Week owner/driver ranking, had to cope with some problems during the procedure of Race 7 and  was forced to a comeback regatta, while in Race 8 Bronenosec Gazprom had a great start for which it could sail in clean air stretching up on the fleet tack after tack.

"Dr. Jekyll or Mr Hyde? We are both, I think. This is the way we are sailing now but it is not only us, is the fleet that is like this. If you have a bad start it's really hard to get back due to the fact that the fleet is very high skill while, if you have a good start and some good speed, you can stay on top and this is what we have now. We went back on the speed of the boat and we can sail with the blue power button all the way down, that is a trick we have onboard. But, as you know, no one is giving anything" Bronenosec Sailing Team's navigator Francesco Mogelli explained at the end of the day.

Puerto Portals Sailing Week will end tomorrow afternoon with other two windward-leeward races. The event will count on a ten races series, with no discard allowed.

In Puerto Portals, 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.

Provisional ranking.