Emirates and Quantum reverse fortunes
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IAN ROMAN / AUDI MED
Better luck for the Russian yacht Synergy, winning the eighth race of the Audi MedCup series off Marseille
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On a snake and ladder course, fortunes were reversed yesterday for Emirates Team New Zealand, leader of the second of five Audi MedCup grand prix, and its nearest rival, the American yacht Quantum.
New Zealand’s America’s Cup skipper Dean Barker just about avoided total humiliation with a sixth in the first of two races in the light and patchy winds of the Rade du Sud as Quantum’s Terry Hutchinson, who was Barker’s tactician in 2007, took third behind the Russian yacht Synergy and Portugal’s Bigamist, to make it two wins and two thirds in his last four races.
Then it was Hutchinson’s turn to hiccough as he slumped to 8th in the second race of the day, restoring TNZ’s lead to 16 points with one or two races to complete the series tomorrow.
But these two are stretching clear of the other nine and TNZ looks set to go to Cagliari, Sardinia, next month as the overall series leader as early rivals, such as the Swedish yacht Artemis, with three times America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts as tactician, and the new Argentinian yacht Matador, where Britain’s Steve Hayles is navigator
The eighth leg of the Volvo round the world race from Marstrand to Stockholm starts tomorrow.
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