President Shows The Way In First Race Worlds
Morgan Larson, tactician, Quantum Racing (USA):
“ It proved to be every bit as challenging today as Palma can be. Sometimes it is like that where the right looks windier but everyone knows about that geographical left shift. I think the race committee did a nice job of making the right hand a little favoured so it was enticing and so Cristabella got it right. We thought it would be about one in ten times when the right paid out big and it happened, they did a nice job.”
“ Second race was great for us. It was still a challenge because we knew the fleet was thinking right and the pressure looked to be on the right, but we were happy to go for the left shift. That made it easy to take the pin and it paid out.”
“ The MedCup you are building points throughout and so you are trying to podium each event and you are always thinking about the overall, this is the world championships and so no one is sailing conservative, everyone is going all out to win.”
“ And it has a nice atmosphere, it is nice to be finally at a yacht club and Palma is always a nice City to come to, and it is also really nice to see a couple of new boats to the fleet, some new faces out there.”
“ We don’t really think of it as being here to defend our title, it’s a world championship. If you can win a world championship you’d be happy, and this was a good way to begin. I am sure there will be some tricky days ahead.”
TP53 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP after 2 races:
| 1 | QUANTUM RACING | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | SYNERGY | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 3 | MATADOR | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 4 | BRIBON | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 | CRISTABELLA | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 6 | ARTEMIS | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | AUDI TP52 POWERED BY Q8 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 8 | VALARS III | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 9 | HENRI LLOYD/WEAPON OF CHOICE | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| 10 | PAPREC RECYCLAGE | 10 | 10 | 20 |
