Mirsky Racing Team Fourth in Omega Auckland Cup

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:54:26 +0000

Mirsky Racing Team finish 4th in the Auckland Omega Match Race.

Qualifying an impressive second place in a star studded line up in the double round robin stage MRT were chosen by round robin winner Team Origin lead by Ben Ainslie for the semi-final race.

Ainslie took two quick victories in hard fought battles against MRT

“It was great to compete against the Cup teams as they warm up for the Louis Vuitton Trophy being held next week. Adam’s and our teams were the only teams that weren’t Americas Cup teams so we are happy to have raced the world best match racers and finished where we did. It was a good warm up for our team as it has been our first event as a team since last years Monsoon Cup.

We are looking forward to the tour taking off again in Marsielle in April and we are aiming for bigger and better things this year” said Mirsky.

In front of their home crowd, Emirates Team New Zealand’s Dean Barker took out the trophy once more after only narrowly scraping into the semi final round, beating Team Origin’s Ben Ainslie 2 – 0 before the breeze shut out completely.

Final Results:

1st Team New Zealand
2nd Team Origin
3rd BlackMatch
4th Mirsky Racing Team
5th Team Synergy
6th Aleph Sailing Team
7th Victory Challenge
8th Team Azzura
9th Dickson Sailing Team

10th All4One

MRT Beat Barker on Day Two of Auckland Omega Match Race.

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:23:03 +0000

The second day of the Auckland Omega Match Race sees MRT end the day with a scorecard of 5-5.

After an average first day, MRT hit the water firing beating their World Champion rivals of Adam Minoprio and his Blackmatch crew. An intense prestart saw Blackmatch awarded a penalty but take the advantage off the line. A fierce tacking duel saw MRT take the lead but sacrificing their penalty advantage after a close leebow tack where the penalties were equalised.

Once MRT were given the lead they extended and comfortably defeated their Kiwi opponents.

With the majority of the competitors at the Omega Match Race being Americas Cup sailors, MRT do not get the opportunity to race them very regularly.

Making the most of racing world class competition, MRT went into their next race against Team New Zealand trying to mix it with the best.

After a tight prestart which saw the advantage go to MRT they held their nerve around the course to extend their lead and comfortably beat Dean Barker by 25seconds in the blustery conditions.

Racing was then called off for the rest of the day with the wind consistently blowing over 25knots.

Tomorrow will see the remainder of the second round robin completed and racing promises to be exciting as everyone battles to qualify for the semi finals.

Round Robin Results:

Team Origin Ben Ainslie 8
Team New Zealand Dean Barker 6
ETNZ Blackmatch Adam Minoprio 6
Team Synergy Karol Jablonski 6
Team Aleph Bertrand Pace 5
Mirsky Racing Team Torvar Mirsky 5
Team Azzura Francesco Bruni 4
All4One Sebastien Col 4
Dickson Racing Team Chris Dickson 3
Victory Challenge Magnus Holmberg 3

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Mirsky Racing Team Fourth in Omega Auckland Cup

MRT Beat Barker on Day Two of Auckland Omega Match Race.