While Italy’s Vasco Vascotto and the crew of Mutua Madrileña scored themselves a morale boosting pair of victories around today’s 32.7 miles, two-part coastal race into the Gulf of Angels, the bay immediately to the east of Cagliari, it was the steady perfomance of Quantum Racing which sees them at the top of both the overall leader-board for this Audi Region of Sardinia Trophy and the season long Audi MedCup Circuit.
Quantum Racing were fifth in the first section of the race and then managed to overhaul Torbjorn Tornqvist’s Artemis on an exciting last couple of miles to the finish, and steal the fourth place which was enough to give them a two points lead in the regatta ahead of Mean Machine and a wafer thin 0.2 point lead on the Audi MedCup Circuit.
But Jose Cusi’s Bribon had a good day too, with two second places to atone for a slightly disappointing Wednesday.
With the early breeze remaining light, 6-8 knots for most of the first ten or twelve miles, it was only on the five miles beat. Later on the sea breeze started to flex its muscles a little more, rising to 11-12 knots at times. But it was largely on that first, opening beat when the shape of the race was really set, and even by the first mark there was already 8 minutes and 20 seconds - a lifetime in the usual scheme of TP52 racing - between Mutua Madrileña and the 13th placed boat. MM broke their masthead crane just before the start of the first regatta, impairing their tuning and training. Then in Marseille, their regatta ended prematurely when their hull sustained damage at the first mark of the Coastal Race.
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