MATADOR Wins Alicante Trophy

No mistakes today on the Matador, they must have had a good de-brief yesterday.

Their 2nd and 1st for races 8 and 9 took them 1 point in the lead of Artemis, 2 points over ETNZ.

Best of the rest was Quantum and the most promising runners-up price certainly goes to the Bigamist.

The 3 new boats on top, followed by last years winner and Bigamist, the team that spend many hours this winter to get to know their boat.

Conditions were in general not that windy, so conditions feared, if anything, by the new boats the most.

The final race of the Alicante event showed very well how close the racing was, at the top mark of the first beat only two boats rounded in over one minute from the leader, the others well within.

MATADOR 18:34, PISCO SOUR 00:05, ARTEMIS 00:09, ETNZ 00:19, BIGAMIST 7 00:27, DESAFIO 00:34, AUDI Q8 00:45, QUANTUM 00:47, SYNERGY 00:49, BRIBON 00:54, MARAZZI SAILING 01:02, VALARS III 01:25

FINAL RESULTS top five:

1   MATADOR      36 points   (2 5 1 8 7 5 5 2 1)  

2   ARTEMIS        37 points   (7 2 9 7 2 2 1 5 2)

3   EMIRATES TEAM NEW ZEALAND  38 points (4 4 6 2 1 3 10 1 7)   

4   QUANTUM RACING  40 points   (5 1 3 4 5 6 7 3 6) 

5    BIGAMIST 7    46 points  (12 5 5 9 1 4 4 3)   

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