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Good day for Kilroy

Samba Pa Ti moves ahead at the Audi Melges 20 Worlds

Thursday August 28th 2014, Author: James Boyd, Location: Italy

Three additional races were held on day two of the Audi Melges 20 World Championship hosted by Fraglia Della Vela Riva. American John Kilroy on Samba Pa Ti has charged into first place overall now holding a 14-point lead,

Monaco's Guido Miani aboard Monaco Racing Fleet had a phenomenal day, winning two of today's three races. "We had a fantastic day - beautiful conditions," he said. "The lake is always amazing. Our tactician, Gabriele Benussi, made some great calls. It was really tough racing against Samba and Section 16. This boat is just amazing. I've been around, sailing for more than 40 years and this is clearly the best fleet, with the best people and a lot of fun."

Tied with points and seated in third on countback is current Audi Sailing Series leader Dario Levi on Fremito D'Arja. Achille Onorato's Mascalzone Latino Jr. is fourth, and overnight leader Alessandro Rombelli on Stig had a very disappointing day falling to fifth overall.

The first race of the day, race four, got underway around 09:00 with overcast skies and a nice 10-12 knots of breeze, which slowly dissipated as the race nearer its conclusion. 57 teams were on the start line with Mianilaunching ahead to round the weather mark first, followed by Mirko De Falco's Peccere, Denmark's Bo Boje Pedersen's UpUpUp and Levi, with Kilroy, Onorato and Richard Davies on Section 16 very close behind.

With a course change at the gate, Miani continued to lead the fleet with Levi and Kilroy gaining positions to occupy second and third. Kilroy gained again upwind to follow Miani around the final top mark of the race in second place. On the final run to the finish, the top five boats put some distance between themselves and the rest of the fleet blasting downwind in the diminishing and shifty breeze. Miani took the win, Kilroy was second and Levi came third, Onorato fourth and Pedersen fifth - his best finish ever since debuting in the fleet at the last Worlds in Ocean Reef, Florida.

The Race Committee was hoping for a quick reset of the course in order to get Race Five started right away. However, the breeze was shifting 30 to 50° at times prompting the AP flag to be hoisted, and the teams were sent ashore until better breeze materialised. More breeze arrived just before 13:00 - perfect for two more races.

Excellent conditions filled in for races five and six, with 13-15 knots, a 2-3ft chop and 57 breeze-hungry Audi Melges 20s enjoyed afternoon racing in Garda to the fullest. An over-anxious fleet resulted in the first general recall of the regatta in Race Five. Once back in order and off the line, it was a full on, outright battle between Miani (first) and Kilroy (second) and Paul Reilly's Red Sky Sailing Team (third) around the top mark. Miani passed through the gates with Kilroy chasing. Davies took advantage of great breeze to be third, followed by Reilly. For the final mark, Kilroy edged out Miani upwind. Once outfront Kilroy never looked back, taking the win. Davies took second with Miani accepting third.

The final race of the day was equally exciting and all smiles. This is what teams signed up for and Garda delivered - unsurpassed competition, premium racing and incredible downwind planing conditions. Miani punched out again to lead Race six, this time he established a nice lead leaving Kilroy, Reilly, Levi and Japan's Naofumi Kamei on Mamma Aiuto! to battle for position. At the gate, Kilroy advanced into second, followed by Kamei and Davies who worked the left side for pressure moving up several positions. Back upwind, Kilroy challenged but Miani was not about to relinquish his lead. Kamei, Davies, Levi, Franceso Farnetti on ITA-157 and Monaco's Corado Agusta on Customly charged forward. Miani easily took the win while the race was still very much on for the remaining top five positions. Right at the finish line, Kamei foiled the jibe allowing for Davies to take third, Agusta was fourth. Kamei came fifth.

Friday marks the third day of racing in Riva with a 1 o'clock start, which is perfect since teams will be enjoying a Championship dinner tonight.

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Results:

Pos Sail no Yacht Owner R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Tot
        1 2 3 4 5 6  
1 USA 13131 Samba Pa Ti John Kilroy 13 4 4 2 1 2 13
2 MON 333 Monaco Racing Fleet Guido Miani 27 5 17 1 3 1 27
3 ITA 50 Fremito D'arja Dario Levi 6 17 8 3 4 6 27
4 ITA 23 Mascalzone Latino Achille Onorato 18 9 3 4 8 9 33
5 ITA 65 STIG Alessandro Rombelli 11 1 2 23 9 43 46
6 USA 276 Section 16 Richard Davies 20 16 22 6 2 3 47
7 USA 311 Wildman Liam Kilroy 3 2 20 15 16 11 47
8 USA 008 Shimmer Russ Lucas 5 6 16 12 17 15 54
9 USA 14 Red Sky Sailing Team Paul Reilly 12 22 27 9 5 8 56
10 JPN 271 Mamma Aiuto! Naofumi Kamei 17 21 30 13 11 5 67
11 USA 1315 Ninkasi John Taylor 8 8 36 35 10 10 71
12 USA 217 Slingshot Wes Whitmyer Jr 45 24 9 14 12 13 72
13 ITA 112 Peccere' Mirko de Falco 44 13 5 7 28 20 73
14 RUS 047 Kotyara Oleg Evdokimenko 2 3 28 8 35 44 76
15 ITA 167 Maolca Manfredi Vianini Tolomei 7 20 21 18 30 14 80
16 ITA 107 Leviathan Davide Albertini Petroni 43 12 23 11 24 12 82
17 MON 108 Lucifer Matteo Marenghi Vaselli 16 10 27/SCP 33 13 17 83
18 ITA 157 ITA 157 Francesco Farneti 22 33 18 32 7 7 86
19 ITA 149 CAMAY Lauro Bonora 21 18 13 30 6 58/DNF 88
20 ITA 106 Asante Sana Sailing Team Claudio Dutto 9 7 31 10 31 36 88
21 CZE 180 Aloha Jan Kuchar 25 11 7 24 23 28 90
22 ITA 205 3menda Federico Albano 4 15 32 19 58/DSQ 21 91
23 ITA 124 Audi G-Tron F.lli Giacomel Roberto Martinez 24 28 1 20 29 22 95
24 RUS 173 Ost Legal Vladimir Lipavsky 26 32 14 16 27 18 101
25 DEN 150 upupup Bo Boje Pedersen 28 37 12 5 58/SCP 32 114
26 MON 81 Customly Corrado Agusta 32 29 46 37 19 4 121
27 RUS 262 Fly or die Denis Lankin 23 25 24 21 34 31 124
28 ITA 027 Chimera (Corinthian) Marco Gambardella 10 34 6 45 42 33 125
29 GER 204 Maroi (Corinthian) Jan Kowalski 31 38 11 53 21 24 125
30 ITA 192 Mezza Luna Marco Franchini 19 41 51 36 14 16 126
31 ITA 189 Sailing Lab Andrea Bruschi 46 19 15 42 25 29 130
32 RUS 7 ANYWAYANYDAY Kirill Podolsky 42 26 19 29 33 26 133
33 ITA 136 Raffica Pasquale Orofino 49 27 25 27 15 40 134
34 ITA 199 Rush Diletta PRIMED Mauro Mocchegiani 34 30 34 43 20 19 137
35 MON 713 Synergy Valentine Zavadnikov 15 44 47 46 18 23 146
36 MON 104 Money Time Philippe Pizzichini 14 49 26 48 45 27 160
37 USA 231 Blind Squirrel (Corinthian) John Brown 29 42 52 28 38 30 167
38 RUS 44 Ottobre Rosso Artem Kuznetsov 37 31 38 26 37 38 169
39 CAN 170 Batteries 4 Bacio Rhonda Joyce 38 43 40 39 22 34 173
40 RUS 002 Pirogovo Sailing Alexandr Ezhkov 47 39 48 25 26 37 174
41 RUS 265 Russotrans Yuriy Morozov 1 36 43 38 58/DSQ 58/DNF 176
42 RUS 156 RUS 156 QUANTUM Marina Chubkina 33 14 37 50 48 46 178
43 GER 135 Fantastichina Fritz Homann 35 52 29 34 51 39 188
44 CAN 222 Wild Deuces (Corinthian) Paul Currie 52 47 39 31 36 41 194
45 JPN 233 Sokokumaru Sumio Shimoyama 40 48 33 52 39 35 195
46 ITA 154 Spirit of Nerina Mirko Bargolini / Francesco Scarselli 58/DNF 58/DNF 58/DNF 17 43 25 201
47 GER 164 Hellcat (Corinthian) Juergen Fuchs 30 45 56 44 32 52 203
48 RUS 25 Versya Anatoly Karachinskiy 50 23 44 55 46 42 205
49 ITA 125 T2R Tommaso Pavan 58/SCP 46 35 22 58/DNF 45 206
50 ITA 181 Hanneken (Corinthian) Simone Anichini 56 40 41 41 47 53 222
51 RUS 36 Anna Vladimir Silkin 53 54 45 40 40 48 226
52 ITA 158 Tomahawk Stefano Santucci 48 35 53 51 47/RDG 47/RDG 228
53 AUT 159 N.N. Klaus Schober 41 53 42 49 50 47 229
54 ITA 137 Tachicardia (Corinthian) Michele Dandolo 55 50 49 58/DNF 41 51 246
55 JPN 277 Contious Norikatsu Aizawa 39 56 55 56 49 54 253
56 ITA 220 Turnover Renato Vallivero 51 51 54 47 58/DNF 50 253
57 SUI 206 Cold Duck August Schram 54 55 50 54 52 49 259
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