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Audi MedCup Region of Sardinia Trophy - Unfortunate collision

by TeamOrigin on 23 Sep 2010
52 Series Day 2: Crash between Audi A1 powered by ALL4ONE and Bribon - Audi MedCup Region of Sardinia Trophy. Photo: Stefano Gattini & Guido Trombetta-Studio Borlenghi/Audi MedCup Stefano Gattini & Guido Trombetta-Studio Borlenghi
Audi MedCup Region of Sardinia Trophy.

It was enough to take both Bribon and Audi A1 out of the third and final race on day two in Cagliari.


A classic port/starboard situation as the fleet approached the first top mark, Audi A1 on port preparing to duck Bribon sailing in on starboard but something in Audi A1’s timing just wasn’t quite right. The duck wasn’t enough and Audi A1’s bow sprit went ploughing into the aft quarter of Bribon, gashing the hull and breaking their bow sprit clean off. Disaster for Bribon and it’ll be a amazing if they make it to the start line on Thursday for the coastal race so a long night ahead for the boat builders. They may not come back in this regatta at all.

http://publish.vx.roo.com/wwwsailtv/SailTV/?vxSiteId=b706974b-b871-497b-aef6-01ad64bc7389&vxChannel=Sail%20TV%20News&vxClipId=2622_Audi_A1_Bribon_crash&vxBitrate=700!Click_here to see the video

Meanwhile TeamOrigin were already around the mark ahead and sailing their way to the best result of the regatta so far.

A great start by skipper and helm Ben Ainslie, hitting the line with pace and accuracy enabled them to stay in the top third all the way around race three and take second place in front of Emirates Team New Zealand and behind Matador.

The team had a difficult start to the day ending race one in eighth place but undeterred were able to halve that score by race two delivering a fourth place finish just one second behind Audi A1.

Warwick Fluery, mainsail trimmer 'It was a tough day. It wasn’t always clear which side of the course to go. Yesterday was easier to read than today'

Matador and Synergy are both having a good regatta to date, posting consistent results and sailing well. Emirates Team New Zealand are definitely in the mix but a tenth today won’t help them in their quest to wrap up the series at the top.

So after six races TeamOrigin are up to fourth in the regatta and hold fourth in the series, just eleven points behind Matador in third so tomorrows coastal race with a 1.5 scoring system is pretty important in the grand scheme of things.










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