Quantum Racing tactician Adrian Stead happy with success at 2011 Audi TP52 World Championship: Day 3
Defending world champions, America’s Quantum Racing made a strong comeback on Day 3 of 2011 Audi TP52 World Championships at Sardinia. American team tactician, Adrian Stead is quite excited about their return back into the event and hopes to keep the lead
in their hands until the end of competition at Porto Cervo in Sardinia region.
The weather forecast was lower just like the second day. Due to the absence of breeze at all, the race committee at Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, the event’s host club, had to shift the competition to the northern area of Secca dei Tre Monti where only one
race could be commenced.
Quantum Racing produced some excellent sail during the only race of the day to win it ahead of Great Britain’s Gladiator and Spain’s Paramount Park Murcia. However, all top three podium holders have the same score line, which will make the competition more
exciting.
While speaking to local media at the conclusion of Day 3, Stead said, “It was very tricky out there today. There was only two and a half hours of breeze in the whole Porto Cervo region today and we were racing up in Bomb Alley where it is quite narrow with
the mountain on one side and the island on the other. We had quite a good start and it felt like the right would work.”
He added, “The boat was going pretty well but there were certainly plenty of potholes out there to watch, as light as four knots at times and as much as seven knots. The finishing times at the end the front four boats were all within 30 seconds of each other,
but the back markers were some minutes behind and so that shows just how extreme it was racing out there today.”
The overall standings of 2011 Audi TP52 World Championship at the end of Day 3 are given below:
1. Quantum Racing (USA) 1, 3, 5, 1 = 10 points
2. Gladiator (GBR) 3, 1, 4, 2 = 10 points
3. Paramount Park Murcia (ESP) 4, 2, 1, 3 = 10 points
4. Container (GER) 2, 7, 3, 4 = 16 points
5. RÁN (SWE) 6, 5, 2, 5 = 18 points
6. Audi Azzurra Sailing Team (IT) 5, 4, 7, 6 = 22 points
7. Audi ALL4ONE (GER/FR) 7, 6, 6, 7 = 26 points
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