TEAMORIGIN 1851 during the Audi MedCup coastal race Cascais-Portugal-Cascais. Image copyright Ian Roman/TEAMORIGIN.
by Leslie Greenhalgh
Saturday saw the spectacular coastal race take place on day four of this Audi MedCup series, a 38 mile battle with winds forecast between 15 and 25 knots. This was an important race in the series as the results hold a 1.5 point multiplier.
TEAMORIGIN 1851 during the Audi MedCup coastal race Cascais-Portugal-Cascais. Image copyright Ian Roman/TEAMORIGIN.
TEAMORIGIN started with great promise, yet again an awesome start and leading for the first lap, but then appearing to struggle for speed in the long downwind legs, ending up in a disappointing 9th position. Emirates Team New Zealand took a comfortable race win consolidating their position at the top of the leaderboard with two races to go. TEAMORIGIN now lie in a very close 4th place going into the last day.
TEAMORIGIN 1851 during the Audi MedCup coastal race Cascais-Portugal-Cascais. Image copyright Ian Roman/TEAMORIGIN.
TEAMORIGIN quotes:
Mike Sanderson, TEAMORIGIN Team Director: “We had an awesome start, led from the outset and had a great first lap. Near Cape raso mark we seemed to slow, maybe foul tide and ETNZ got ahead of us, they then blew a spinnaker and we passed them again and from then on we were completely off the pace. We are not sure why, maybe we caught a bag or something but it did not feel right so we are spending the time to analyse and work it out.
TEAMORIGIN 1851 during the Audi MedCup coastal race Cascais-Portugal-Cascais. Image copyright Ian Roman/TEAMORIGIN.
"All in all a very disappointing day for the guys, for sure you do not expect to be leading for a whole lap after an awesome start and then finish in 9th place, pretty unheard of so something is wrong for sure and we will find the way to put it right and move on.”
TEAMORIGIN 1851 during the Audi MedCup coastal race Cascais-Portugal-Cascais. Image copyright Ian Roman/TEAMORIGIN.
Juan Vila, TEAMORIGIN Navigator, added “We had a pretty good first beat and 1st run and going into Cabo Raso mark we felt a bit slower there, from then on other boats overtook us and we couldn’t really find the pace to get back into it, now we need to find the reason why.”
TEAMORIGIN 1851 during the Audi MedCup coastal race Cascais-Portugal-Cascais. Image copyright Ian Roman/TEAMORIGIN.
Coastal race results:
1. Emirates team New Zealand
2. Matador
3. Audi A1 powered by ALL4ONE
4. Artemis
5. Bribon
6. Bigamist 7
7. Quantum
8. Cristabella
9. TEAMORIGIN
10. Synergy
11. Luna Rossa
TEAMORIGIN 1851 during the Audi MedCup coastal race Cascais-Portugal-Cascais. Image copyright Ian Roman/TEAMORIGIN.
TP52 Series results – overall after Day 4
1. Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL), 27.5 points
2. Audi A1 powered by ALL4ONE (FRA/GER), 41.5
3. Artemis (SWE), 42
4. TeamOrigin (GBR), 42.5
5. Synergy (RUS), 49
6. Matador (ARG), 52
7. Quantum (USA), 53.5
8. Cristabella (GBR), 55
9. Luna Rossa (ITA), 61.5
10. Bribon (ESP), 64.5
11. Bigamist 7 (POR),75
Race schedule for Sunday 16th May
2 short inshore races to complete the series, schedule warning signal at 1300.
TEAMORIGIN
Audi MedCup
