At Venice it was the newcomer Yann
Guichard who looked to be confident
and in control of the light conditions
that predominated the event in his his
Groupe LCF Rothschild, owners of the
Gitana team. BMW Oracle, helemd
by James Spithill started poorly but
came string in the latter stages of the
event whilst Loick Peyron in Oman Sail
Renaissance was consistent throughout
and finished in third just ahead of his
sistership Oman sail Masirah helmed by
Pete Cumming.
Yann Guichard: "It's a great feeling
to win here, I guess we were coming
knowing we were somewhere in the
top five, but winning the first event
is fantastic! We concentrated on our
starts, communication within the team
was excellent and we did not lose our
focus. There is a lot of pressure on the
Picture: Th.Martinez/Sea&Co/OCEvents
helmsmen as the boats are very close,
and it's very demanding physically for
team and an Oman one, that's perfect. Here you have to be careful all the time -
the crew but we were working perfectly
the next venues, especially Hyeres in fact are wider, I hope, maybe with more wind
together. That's one in the bag, and five
so need strong crews. We can feel that everybody can do something well some
to go! We really enjoyed the format, I
teams seem to have maybe some difference but it's never finished, never."
think it's been great for the spectators
as well. We'll go back to training soon,
Mike Golding, Ecover, 10th overall: "I don't think the racing will get any more
as the next event in Hyères will probably
difficult than it is here in Venice, where the course is very confined - if you don't
be more windy and a bit different, but
get you start right you're out! The main thing is that we're enjoying it a lot, I've got
we're looking forward to it."
great guys on board and we don't have any speed issues, it's only a matter of
James Spithill, BMW ORACLE Racing,
learning now. I think that you probably almost have to do a year of this to know
second overall: "It was obviously very
how to do it. I never thought I could turn up and expect instant gratification. (...)
light and today was definitely a different
So yes, we're thinking about taking part in the circuit in 2010, you have to take a
style of racing with a reaching course
longer view. We'll see how it goes."
and I thought we were pretty weak at
it so I think we're happy to walk away
with a second. Gitana were definitely
Points Place
on top of their game. So a lot of good
Gitana Extreme-
lessons have been learnt and I think
Groupe LCF Rothschild 140 1
we'll be better for it. (Venice was) BMW ORACLE Racing 120 2
fantastic, what a great venue, got to
Renaissance 113 3
love it, we really enjoyed it."
Masirah 111 4
Loïck Peyron, Renaissance (Oman Sail),
Groupama 40 102 5
third overall
BT 97 6
"I'm not used yet to the medal race - I LUNA 88 7
never do that, you know! That's for
Holmatro 8 4 8
young people, looking for Olympic
medals so you have to manage that a
iShares 84 9
bit better! No, it was really nice, really
Ecover 48 10
interesting. I guess we did a nice crew
job and a nice team job too by training
together, by trying to do better and
better together which is the game and
Next stop Hyeres,
for sure it could be worse. Gitana did a
France 3 – 5 July
very, very good job, for sure. I'm afraid
I trained them a bit too much! I'm very
happy to have a big team like BMW
Yann Guichard, skipper of Gitana
More details from:
ORACLE Racing between a French
Extreme - Groupe LCF Rothschild,
www.isharescup.com
winner of the first event of the iShares
Cup 2009 in Venice.
Picture: Th.Martinez/Sea&Co/OCEvents
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