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Print article Team Ceeref retains her golden wheels in last Gasp of the 44Cup
After a difficult second day of this regatta Slovenian Igor Lah s Team CEEREF was lowest scoring yesterday and today built on this, initially posting a second. They followed this in race two by a come-from-behind win as Torbjorn Tornqvist s Artemis Racing, for the first time at this event, led round the top mark. Team CEEREF split, gybing early into a beneficial shift and better pressure allowing her to cruise into the lead which she consolidated upon during the next upwind.
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Thanks to this Team CEEREF started the final race holding a four point lead, but with Team Nika and Atom Tavatuy still capable of toppling her.
44Cup Portorož Day 3 - Consistency pays in windy Portorož by 44Cup 22 May 21:40 BST 19-23 May 2021
For the first 44Cup event in 17 months, Portorož could not have offered better conditions to date; slowly ramping up the wind strength to the third and penultimate day of racing, when the wind was at times solidly into the 20s, gusting to 25 knots.
While Chris Bake s Team Aqua was the undisputed champion yesterday, first home in all three races, today reverted to familiar 44Cup form with three different winners. In the first race John Bassadone s Gibraltar team on their rebranded Peninsula Racing played the right side of the first beat masterfully to lead at the top mark, clinging on to the finish.
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