Artemis in control
at La Maddalena
By the Louis Vuitton Trophy Media Team. |
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The Swedish team Artemis, skippered by Paul Cayard and steered by Terry Hutchinson, won another race at the Louis Vuitton Trophy in La Maddalena today to preserve an unbroken record of four wins and no losses.
Their nearest competition after five days of match racing between ten international teams is the French / German All4One. They have three points but with six races sailed, they also have three losses. Five teams are equal third, each with two points. |
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Louis Vuitton Trophy, La Maddalena, Sardegna. Race day five saw plenty
of close racing with Artemis and Luna Rossa battled for weather mark
and finish with Artemis winning.
Photo © Bob Grieser / Louis Vuitton Trophy / outsideimages.co.nz.
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Superb sailing conditions on the Golfo di Arzachena off the Sardinian island of La Maddalena, saw five races completed. But with half of the opening round robin now completed, many of the top names of America’s Cup competition remain at the bottom of a topsy-turvy results table.
"It’s only four races so far. These races are very, very difficult. They are tight and we’re working hard on keeping with the ‘winning by a boat-length theory’ which puts a lot of internal pressure on the boat but so far its still moving along," said Artemis helmsman Terry Hutchinson, after defeating fellow American Ed Baird who is skippering and steering the Italian Luna Rossa. |
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Louis Vuitton Trophy, La Maddalena, Italy. Race
Day 5. BMW ORACLE Racing (USA) verses ALL4ONE (GER).
Photo © Franck Socha / Louis Vuitton Trophy.
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"There is still a lot that we can do and a lot that I can do. Our learning curve with the team is still fairly vertical. Looking at the big picture, our goal is to be here in 12 days time on Sunday."
In their race against Luna Rossa, Artemis got off the start line bow-forward with more speed. |
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Louis Vuitton Trophy, La Maddalena, Sardegna. Race day five saw plenty
of close racing with Artemis and Luna Rossa battled for weather mark
and finish with Artemis winning.
Photo © Bob Grieser outsideimages.co.nz /
Louis Vuitton Trophy.
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| "It was a really good job of boat handling on our boat," Hutchinson said. "The guys in the middle of the boat and the bow did really nice choreographed work. I think Luna Rossa stalled a little bit in an effort to shut the door on us as they went for their speed build. We had really nice time and distance and when they stalled it made our slingshot pretty handy." |
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Louis Vuitton Trophy, La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy. Race Day 5. Synergy
Russian Sailing Team (RUS) verses Emirates
Team New Zealand (NZL).
Photo © Paul Todd outsideimages.co.nz /
Louis Vuitton Trophy.
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Flight
3, Race 1: Mascalzone Latino defeats Synergy
Russian Sailing Team by 00:08.
Mascalzone Latino earned a thrilling come-from-behind win in this match on the final run to the finish. Skipper Gavin Brady and his team did a masterful job of positioning their boat on the first gybe of the run and were able to roll over the top of Synergy. Karol Jablonski, the skipper on the Russian boat, was then too aggressive in attempting to protect his position and the Umpires penalised him for sailing above his proper course. Game over. |
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Louis Vuitton Trophy, La Maddalena, Italy. Race Day 5. on the bow of
Mascalzone Latino Audi Team.
Photo © Paul Todd outsideimages.co.nz /
Louis Vuitton Trophy.
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Flight
13, Race 1: Emirates Team New Zealand defeats Synergy
Russian Sailing Team by 00:04.
The Kiwis made a bold move out to the right hand side of the race course on the first beat, while Synergy played the left. When they converged before the top mark, it was Emirates holding a narrow lead. With the boats nearly overlapped approaching the top mark, Kiwi skipper Dean Barker threw a hard luff at the trailing Synergy, gaining a few extra metres in the process. |
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Louis Vuitton Trophy, La Maddalena, Italy. Race Day 5. Synergy
Russian Sailing Team (RUS) verses Emirates Team
New Zealand (NZL).
Photo © Paul Todd outsideimages.co.nz /
Louis Vuitton Trophy.
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Flight
17, Race 1: BMW Oracle Racing defeats All4One by
00:17.
Sébastien Col on All4One got the best of this start, bow out James Spithill steering Oracle. Spithill hung in and got an edge but Col took him all the way to the port layline and they rounded the top mark bow to stern with the French / German boat leading. One gybe on the run and Spithill rolled his opponent approaching the lee mark in a flurry of gybes and unanswered protest flags. |
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Louis Vuitton Trophy, La Maddalena, Italy. Race Day 5. BMW
ORACLE Racing (USA) verses ALL4ONE (GER).
Photo © Franck Socha /
Louis Vuitton Trophy.
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Flight
21, Race 1: Artemis defeats Luna Rossa by
00:35.
Terry Hutchinson pulled off a perfect start at speed. However, the Italian boat steered by Ed Baird went on the attack, with 17 tacks up the short weather leg to the top mark close astern. The time difference between the two at the mark at this point was just five seconds.
The next three legs were a minefield of shifts and holes but Artemis prevailed. |
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Louis Vuitton Trophy, La Maddalena, Sardegna. Race day five saw plenty
of close racing with Artemis and Luna Rossa battled for weather mark
and finish with Artemis winning.
Photo © Bob Grieser outsideimages.co.nz /
Louis Vuitton Trophy.
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Flight
2, Race 2: All4One defeats Luna Rossa by
35 seconds.
Sébastien Col driving All4One paid a heavy price to win the right hand side of the race course with two slow tacks near the starting line. But the wisdom of that sacrifice became clear two-thirds of the way up the race track when All4One, with starboard tack advantage, was just able to prevent Luna Rossa from crossing clear ahead. |
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Louis Vuitton Trophy, La Maddalena, Sardegna. All4One while racing BMW
ORACLE Racing, in a close race.
Photo © Bob Grieser outsideimages.co.nz /
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The international jury will tonight hear a request for redress filed by All4One against the race committee. The French / German team
is questioning the setup of the leeward mark in the race they lost to BMW Oracle Racing Team.
Provisional win-loss leaderboard after Wednesday racing
1. Artemis, 4-0, 4 points
2. All4One, 3-3, 3 points.
3. Mascalzone Latino Audi Team, 3-1, 2 points*.
3. Emirates Team New Zealand, 2-1, 2 points.
3. Azzurra, 2-2, 2 points.
3. Synergy Russian Sailing Team, 2-2, 2 points.
3. TEAMORIGIN, 2-3, 2 points.
8. BMW Oracle Racing Team, 1-3, 1 point.
8. Luna Rossa, 1-5, 1 point.
10. ALEPH Sailing Team, 2-2, -2 points*.
* Penalties deducted by Jury / Umpires. |
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Louis Vuitton Trophy, La Maddalena, Sardegna. BMW
Oracle Racing at the
top mark.
Photo © Bob Grieser outsideimages.co.nz /
Louis Vuitton Trophy.
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| Live streaming web coverage of the Louis Vuitton Trophy La Maddalena is available on the event website, http://www.louisvuittontrophy.com. The official site (in English, French, Italian and Russian) is also rich in team content, as well as features, audio, video and images. Racing starts at 0900 local time (GMT+2). |
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