Friday, 4 June 2010

LVT: ALL4ONE Takes First Place in the Louis Vuitton Trophy La Maddalena Round Robin




ALL4ONE defeats Artemis. Image copyright Frank Socha/www.franksocha.com

by Stephanie Nadin

ALL4ONE wins the Round Robin in La Maddalena, after a fantastic and well-deserved victory for the French-German team over Artemis in the last match of the Round Robin.

Artemis had a good start ahead of ALL4ONE on the right side of the race course, and dominated the first part of the match until the downwind mark. ALL4ONE kept on fighting hard, trying to remain as close as possible in order to create an opportunity to come back on Artemis.

ALL4ONE then started a tacking duel in the second half of the second upwind leg, which made it possible for the French-German team to take control of the race just before rounding the last upwind mark.


ALL4ONE defeats Artemis. Image copyright Frank Socha/www.franksocha.com

ALL4ONE finally controlled Artemis in the last leg downwind, and crossed the finish line 15 seconds ahead.

The competition resumes this afternoon.

Results Day 13 - Round Robin
Race 1 : Emirates Team New Zealand wins by 1'05 sec over Mascalzone Latino
Race 2 : ALL4ONE wins by 15 sec over Artemis


Seb Col (left) and Jochen Schümann (right) raise their thumbs at winning the round robin. Image copyright Frank Socha/www.franksocha.com

Round Robin results
ALL4ONE 6
Artemis 6
Emirates Team New Zealand 6
Mascalzone Latino 5
Synergy 5
Azzurra 4
TeamOrigin 4
Luna Rossa 3
BMW Oracle Racing 3
Aleph -2

ALL4ONE
Louis Vuitton Trophy