MATCH RACE FRANCE Round Robin Results (win/loss record) Torvar Mirsky (AUS) 9-2Ben Ainslie (GBR) 8-3Adam Minoprio (NZL) 7-4Philippe Presti (FRA) 7-4Paolo Cian (ITA) 7-4Mathieu Richard (FRA) 5-6Francesco Bruni (ITA) 5-6Sebastien Col (FRA) 5-6Pierre-Antoine Morvan (FRA) 4-7Bertrand Pace (FRA) 4-7Peter Gilmour (AUS) 3-8Gian … [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Direct Link
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MATCH RACE FRANCE – Current Standings @ ISTiOSELIDA
The first event of the 2010 World Match Racing Tour (WMRT), Match Race France, has launched in style at Marseille and Britain’s TeamOrigin head the table with the most wins so far.
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TeamOrigin leading at Match Race France @ Cowes Online
[Source: World Match Racing Tour] Day Two of the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) in Marseille has produced a range of results that has highlighted not only match racing experience but also local knowledge as top running variables that can make or break a professional sailing series. After a slow start to the morning with racing postponed, the sailors were let out onto the race course as the wind clocked in from the North West at 4 to 8 knots for the remainder of the day. Racing again in the Bay of Marseille was moved very close in-shore with excellent spectator appeal to the ‘Rade Sud’.Ben Ainslie (GBR) TEAMORIGIN and TORVAR Mirsky (AUS) Mirsky Racing Team are still both on top of the WMRT leader board after today with 11 flights now completed overall. Ainslie has more wins than any other helm so far this week with a current score of 5-1. At a glance it could be said that international match racers with a raft of consistent accolades are steam rolling Match Race France, but the less glamorous placing currently being experienced by the likes of Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing and Francesco Bruni (ITA) Team Azzurra tells a different story.Bruni who won the Congressional Cup only 12 days ago related, “it is tough out there, today has really reminded me about spending time training at particular sailing venues prior to eventsâ€?, a luxury afforded by Olympic dinghy sailors who train months in advance at a set destination for their annual World Championships. “I think more time on the water with your coach really getting to grips with the region’s quirks is a definite advantageâ€?. This is not an option for the WMRT competitors who only have a small window of 2 hours to train on the race course area at each of the 10 venues before racing starts the subsequent day.This leads us into the scenario of ‘local knowledge’ being a serious variable to win races at this venue. Local knowledge is a phenomenon respected the world over by the sailing fraternity. The indigenous racers revel in understanding that they have decades of tales fed in at an early age on which way to go up the all important first beat or if the rain clouds suddenly disperse and the islands appear, as happened today, then the trend is for the wind to always swing to a particular angle.However, the Bay of Marseille has no clear answers, even French national sailors have been experiencing the woes of highly testing conditions. Pacé, a previous ISAF Match Racing World Champion who has returned to the WMRT action, after a 5 year absence, is not shining in these Mediterranean style winds. Perris our newest match racing star from yesterday has also unfortunately awoken from his ‘dream’ with no victorious matches today.There is no clear winner today between racing experience or local knowledge; it will remain a question as to which has the greater influence until the penultimate race on Sunday. Perhaps … Direct Link
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Ben Ainslie leads Match Race France on Day 2 @ Valencia Sailing
Hello All from BlackMatch Racing, It is now only a few days until the opening World Match Racing Tour Event of 2010 in Marseille, the first of 10 events this year that will see us trying to retain our World Match Racing Title. We are proud to release our first video of the year created by Hamish Hooper, updating the teams situation and our intentions for 2010. To view the video please click on the following link to BlackMatch’s new YouTube page http://www.youtube.com/user/BlackMatchRacing1 . 2010 will see BlackMatch hit the water with the same same 5 guys, Adam Minoprio, Dan McLean, Tom Powrie, David Swete and Nick Blackman, all with the same goal of retaining the World Title. Having gained entry to all of the events for 2010, including the exciting new Vietnam Match Cup, it will be a tough ask but we are hoping to kick the year off by defending our Match Race France Title next week. BlackMatch Racing have renewed their sponsorship with Fedex Express for 2010 and we again also have the support of Emirates Team New Zealand. Hamish Hooper and his company the Visual Collective www.thevc.co.nz have done an outstanding job putting together our promotional videos and website and together we are hoping to step up our media presence. 2010 is going to be another exciting year. With the World Match Racing Tour under new management and clearly on the ‘up and up’, all aspects of the game are stepping up another level, including competition on the water and media surrounding the tour, so please feel free to check out the new World Tour website www.wmrt.com or the BlackMatch website www.blackmatchracing.com Direct Link
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BlackMatch Racing set to Launch 2010 Campaign @ Valencia Sailing
Been fiddling with my event calendar in the last couple of weeks. Local events, club events and international invitations. Can’t go to them all, alas. Only so many free days in a year I’ve put up a Google –calendar in a backdated post, so you can see where I’m suppose to go this year: Events I hope to attend in 2010. Or you can have a look on my Facebook page. throughout the year. Some of them are annual recurring events, like Kiel or Delta Lloyd Regatta, and some of them are new. I am invited to go to a World Tour Match Race Event in May and am looking forward to that. I also might have the opportunity to work with my mentor this year at the European Match Race Championship in Austria, also in May. By the time most of you read this I’m already at an event, on the water for Match Racing. On the Markermeer near Lelystad. If you Google the latter you’ll find it is one of the bigger city’s on reclaimed land, we call them ‘polders’. This city was named after ir. Cornelis Lely, a civil engineer who was responsible for developing the plan to ‘shorten’ the coast line of the Netherlands by building the ‘afsluitdijk’ and making it possible to reclaim all that land from the sea. He did not only help develop the plan, he was also later responsible as minister to get it through parliament so the dike could eventually be build. Since I was born in ENS, one of the smaller places in the first polder, the ‘Noordoostpolder’, I’m sort of glad he did that. Ooh, if you have aquaphobia, don’t go there, it’s five meters below sea level. Direct Link
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Calendar 2010 @ Look To Windward
