Day 7 Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland regatta: NO RACING FOR TEAMORIGIN
In the only race of the day, spectators witnessed an interesting turn of events where the French team ‘Aleph’ took a win from event leaders Emirates Team New Zealand breaking their run of race wins. Aleph were ahead from the start and despite ETNZ suffering a spinnaker rip the Kiwis pushed them hard to the end, and the French team took the win by 38 seconds.
The warning signal for race two between TEAMORIGIN and the Swedish Artemis team was fired at 1140. The wind strength was already up to 25 knots and the race start was postponed with 2 minutes to go as this is very much the upper limit for these boats. A long postponement followed while the race boats and teams were sent ashore and the weather monitored. At 5pm local time, the race committee announced the decision to cancel racing for the day due to excessive winds and aim to complete the final flight seven tomorrow and the three unraced matches from today
Racing will resume tomorrow, Tuesday 16th March.
Race results today:
Race 1: Aleph (FRA) beat ETNZ (NZL) : 38s
Postponed until tomorrow:
Race 2 : TEAMORIGIN vs Artemis (SWE)
Race 3: Mascalzone (ITA) vs Azzurra (ITA)
Race 4: Synergy vs All4One (FRA)
Race wins/losses after day 6 of racing:
1st : ETNZ 5 wins/1 loss 5 (sailed 6 races)
2nd : Azzurra 3 wins/2 losses 3
2nd : TEAMORIGIN 3 wins/2 losses 3
2nd : All4One 3 wins/2 losses 3
2nd : Mascalzone 3 win/2 losses 3
6th : Artemis 2 wins/3 losses 2
7th: Aleph* 2 wins*/4 losses 1 (sailed 6 races)
7th: Synergy 0 wins/5 losses 0
(*docked 1 point today for collision)
Race schedule for tomorrow, Tuesday 16th March, final race day of round robin 1, is as
follows:
Race 1: ETNZ (NZL) vs Synergy (RUS)
Race 2 : Aleph vs Azzurra (ITA)
Race 3: Artemis (SWE) vs ALL4ONE (FRA/GER)
Race 4: TEAMORIGIN (GBR) vs Mascalzone (ITA)
Races to be sailed from today will follow straight on, weather permitting:
Race 2 : TEAMORIGIN vs Artemis (SWE)
Race 3: Mascalzone (ITA) vs Azzurra (ITA)
Race 4: Synergy vs All4One (FRA)
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