Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nizza – Una giornata strana, quella di oggi, che ha scompigliato il cartellone e riservato molte sorprese… Il primo match del giorno conclude il Round Robin 1 del Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice Côte d’Azur in maniera non attesa: se, infatti, i primi quattro team erano già ‘al sicuro’, la corsa per il quinto posto era ancora aperta. Dopo la sconfitta a sorpresa di BMW Oracle Racing per mano russa, viene assegnato ad Artemis.

Il RR2 comincia molto bene per i francesi di Bertrand Pace – che guadagnano il loro primo punto dall’inizio dell’evento – e anche per il team franco tedesco All4One. Peccato che entrambe le vittorie siano state conseguite a discapito di Azzurra… Il team italiano dopo la giornata odierna, scivola in terza posizione, dietro Team Origin. “Una giornata brutta, di quelle che capitano in regata – dice Edoardo Recchi – Abbiamo sbagliato la prima partenza e poi avevamo la barca non adatta alle condizioni odierne. Perdevamo sempre qualcosa ad ogni virata”.

Domani il team italiano non disputerà alcuna regata, e approfitterà della pausa per rivedere errori e tattiche in vista dei match successivi.

Emirates Team New Zealand, invece, si conferma il team da battere e rimane in testa alla classifica.

Le regate del Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice Côte d’Azur continuano domani, domenica 15 novembre. La partenza del primo match è fissata per le ore 09.00

Domani si correranno i seguenti match:
1 – BMW Oracle Racing vs Team Origin
2 – Synergy vs Artemis

3 – Emirates Team New Zealand vs BMW Oracle Racing
4 – All4One vs Artemis

5 – Team Origin vs Synergy
6 – TFS Pages Jaunes vs Emirates Team New Zealand

Ranking after Day 8:
Emirates team New Zealand, pt. 7
Team Origin, pt. 6
Azzurra, pt. 6
Artemis, pt. 3
Synergy, pt. 3
All4One, pt. 3
BMW Oracle Racing, pt. 3
Team French Spirit, pt. 1

Video courtesy Louis Vuitton Trophy.

LOUIS VUITTON TROPHY, TEAM FRENCH SPIRIT-PAGES JAUNES SCORES ITS FIRST POINT
[Louis Vuitton Trophy Press Release] France’s TFS – Pages Jaunes scored its first win of the Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Côte d’Azur today as the regatta began Round Robin 2. Other winners included fleet leader Emirates Team New Zealand, No. 2 Team Origin and the combined French/German team All4One.

A new wind direction blew across the racecourse on the Baie des Anges, northeast, but the strength remained light, between 4 and 8 knots. That put a premium on getting to the right side where there seemed to be more pressure. One knot difference in windspeed can add 10 degrees of heading.

Russia’s Synergy played the right side to defeat BMW Oracle Racing in the first match of the day. The showdown was the lone outstanding match of Round 1 and determined fourth, fifth and sixth in the standings.

Synergy and BMW Oracle Racing were separated laterally by more than 1,400 meters (.75 nautical miles) when Synergy tacked to starboard. The Russian team led by skipper Karol Jablonski led by 56 seconds at the first mark en route to a 14-second victory.

Synergy’s win placed it in a three-way tie for fourth in Round 1 with Artemis and BMW Oracle Racing, all at 3-4. Artemis won the tiebreaker by virtue of its win yesterday over Team Origin of the U.K. Synergy placed fifth because it beat BMW Oracle Racing, and the U.S.-flagged crew placed sixth.

The standings proved important because the schedule for Round 2 has been amended from a full round robin. Due to time constraints the eight teams have been divided into two halves based on the Round Robin 1 standings. The top four teams will race each of the bottom four teams once. Wins will be worth 1 point.

Round 2 began with the previously winless TFS – Pages Jaunes scoring a wire-to-wire win over Italy’s Azzurra, which finished second in the first round. Skipper Bertrand Pacé and his crew started to the right of the Italians to play the right side of the course, and when they tacked to starboard they opened an insurmountable lead. TFS – Pages Jaunes led by 33 seconds at the first mark and kept increasing its advantage and scored a victory of 1 minute, 45 seconds.

TFS – Pages Jaunes was formed just two weeks before the regatta and the crew went through some growing pains in the first round. But all of that was temporarily forgotten with the win.

“We knew we could win races, it’s just taken a while for the crew to come together,” said Pacé, a past match racing world champion. “The afterguard picked the right-hand side of the course, and since we had starboard tack in the pre-start it was easy to get to the right.”

It was an afternoon for the French to beat up on the Italians. In the second flight of races All4One scored a 46-second victory over Azzurra. The match was close on the first beat, but All4One protected its early lead and led by 39 seconds at the first mark. All4One was the only crew to win today after starting to the left of its competition.

“We had two good starts today. First one was against Emirates Team New Zealand, but we didn’t turn it into a point and we missed the opportunity to take the lead in this match,” said All4One helmsman Sébastien Col. “We refocused for the second match against Azzurra, where we more or less adopted the same strategy. The afterguard did nice job to keep the lead, knowing that in these light conditions it was not easy.”

In other Round 2 matches Emirates Team New Zealand defeated All4One by 47 seconds and Team Origin won over TFS – Pages Jaunes by 2 minutes, 31 seconds.

Day 9 program:
1 – BMW Oracle Racing vs Team Origin
2 – Synergy vs Artemis

3 – Emirates Team New Zealand vs BMW Oracle Racing
4 – All4One vs Artemis

5 – Team Origin vs Synergy
6 – TFS Pages Jaunes vs Emirates Team New Zealand

Ranking after Day 8:
Emirates team New Zealand, pt. 7
Team Origin, pt. 6
Azzurra, pt. 6
Artemis, pt. 3
Synergy, pt. 3
All4One, pt. 3
BMW Oracle Racing, pt. 3
Team French Spirit, pt. 1

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