From the following press release on the Extreme Sailing Series website:
http://www.extremesailingseries.com/news/view/podium-wide-open-ahead-of-extreme-sailing-series-muscat-final-showdown#.UyyDLq-KDrc
- J.P. Morgan BAR are the comeback kings of the day, with three race
wins and the British team threatening the podium hard.
- Swiss Alinghi hold
onto pole position and withstand the onslaught of the rest of the 11 boat pack –
but with no room for error on tomorrow’s final showdown, with five teams waiting
to pounce.
- Replay today’s Stadium Racing here.
Change to tomorrow’s live racing times – watch the final battle unfold from 1500
local time/1100GMT/1200CET.
The punishing light winds and beating Arabian sun called for nerves of steel
on the penultimate day’s racing of the Extreme Sailing Series™ in Muscat, which
saw a reshuffle of the pack and a shift in power on the leaderboard. Overnight
leaders Alinghi managed to hold onto pole position and withstand the onslaught
of pressure from the rest of the pack, but it couldn’t be closer at the top,
with just 14 points between the top five boats – less than the difference of
tomorrow’s final double points race. SAP Extreme Sailing Team did well to put
themselves back in the game, heading into tomorrow’s final showdown in second
place, but the team of the day was Ben Ainslie’s J.P. Morgan BAR, with three
race wins for the Brits, who are now threatening the podium hard. Tomorrow’s
final will come down to which team can withstand the pressure, and fans around
the world can watch it live at a new time of 1500 local
time/1100GMT/1200CET.
Alinghi marked their intent from the first start gun with a race win, but
even the light wind specialists struggled for consistency in breeze of around
five knots, and it looked like the tricky course may have finally got the better
of the Swiss America’s Cup winners with a last place in race 16. Race 19 and the
team turned it around, hitting the reset button and clawing back some valuable
points, as helm Morgan Larson explained: “Things can come and go out there,
you try and stick to the same objective and sometimes the wind doesn’t go your
way or you get stuck in a tough spot. I think a lot of the other competitors
that came out today had already figured it out, so we got caught up a little
bit. You have to have the best day tomorrow, you can’t hold back.”
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