[Source: Platu 25] Rain and bad weather didn’t stop crews and the Platu 25 World Championship in Rosignano Solvay (23-29 September) re-started with wind blowing in the sails, after the forced pause of Wednesday. Three races were competed yesterday in tough condition. It has been raining all day long but wind was generous and constant (10-15 knots).
Sandro Montefusco is still leading the general ranking list, followed by “Mar de Frades”, 4 points distance. “EUZ II Monella Vagabonda”, instead, got three second places and Carlos Paz a sixth, a second and a third place. So, they are very closed and together are taking more and more distance on the rest of the fleet. This World is getting a match race competition between them, with a separate part of the fleet fighting for the third place.
“La Burra” today placed a brilliant third place in the second race and reached the third position in the general ranking list (25 points). The Austrian “La Burra” helmed by Thomas Laherstorfer, has Markus Sigrist as a tactician. We shouldn’t forget that Markus Sigrist was on board of “Euz II” just as a tactitian last year during the 2011 Worlds in Gmunden and that he conquered the highest step of the podium together with Sandro Montefusco.
Montefusco holds on to his lead. Photo copyright Ainhoa Sanchez
The Italian “Hurrà” helmed by Francesco Lagirti is revealing also all its talent and is defending the fourth position in the general ranking lis, same point with the Spanish “Sori” helmed by Ramon Oeja. Brilliant performance also for the Swiss “Superbusi” helmed by Mathias Bermejo who placed a third and a fourth place in the first and in the second race (unfortunatly an Ocs in the last one) and for “Guen Farrbar 2” helmed by Jens Ahgrimm who conquered a fourth in the first race.
Good performance also for the Italian “Fight for Fighting 3″ owned by Tommaso De Bellis and helmed by Andrea Casale who is replacing Alberto La Tegola, the very talented official “Fight for Fighting 3″’s helmsman who had to go abroad for job. This crew from Puglia today managed very well They gained a fifth, a seventh and a first and they jumped in fifth position in the overall.