In today’s race at the start, Lexus, got into a collision with Atalanti, skippered by Paul Cayard, which has to retire due to damage on the hull. Despite the disastrous start, Lexus, skippered by Russell Coutts, with Peter Isler and Mark Reynolds in the afterguard, managed to recover and climb to third. Meanwhile, Pisco Sour controlled the fleet from beginning to end, finishing 41 seconds in front of Caixa Galicia, who was second after a great downwind run on the last leg.

Vasco Vascotto, expressed his joy after the team´s excellent performance during the whole week. “The boat, a Botin&Carkeek design built by Longitud 0 in Castellon, Spain, has been really fast as well, but although everything seemed to be very easy it has been hard, and it’ll be harder in the next event. When you start to win it seems you keep winning once more for a roll, but we all know that’s not possible to do all the time.”

“We had a pretty bad start, we were looking for a place to tack and we saw that Atalanti appeared to be tacking so we thought we had a good spot to tack, and I don’t know if he saw that we were in the manoeuvre, but didn’t quite get out of the way and we were caught with the only option of getting behind them but obviously it didn’t work,” said Jann Neergaard, from Lexus-Quantum. Despite the collision, neither Russell Coutts nor Paul Cayard presented a protest.

Breitling MEDCUP ranking

1º Leche Pascual 102 Ptos
2º Lexus 89 Ptos
3º Caixa Galicia 86 Ptos
4º Atalantis 86 Ptos
5º Bribón 68 Ptos
6º Bambakou 65 Ptos
7º Orlanda 64 Ptos
8º Cristabella 23 Ptos
9º Aifos 21 Ptos