It was the Brazilians’ day. Race is tighter
The leadership of the Soling Worlds that is being held at Veleiros do Sul in Porto Alegre still belongs to the Germans Roman Koch, Maxl Koch and Gregor Bornemann. However on Wednesday, the World champion trio arrived in 6th and 12th place on the fifth and sixth races respectively. From now on they cannot make mistakes or will move down on the general classification.
On vice place are the Argentineans Gustavo Warburg, Hernan Celedoni and Maximo Smith. After their disqualification on the second race on Monday they got straight again today. “The races today were difficult, our main sail sheet cable broke on the second windward of the sixth race, but at least we got second and third place today.” Said the Wolrlds twice champion Warburg.
The day was the Brazilians’ with the victories of Guilherme Roth, Carlos Trein and Roger Lamb on the first race of the day and Ernesto Neugebauer, Lucas Ostergren and Phillipp Grochtmann on the next one. After arriving Roth celebrated with his crew. “Being in front of tree world champion crews was not easy. The race was hard disputed, but we managed to lead it. We want to be among the five first in this championship.” said Roth.
On Wednesday the championship became nearly even on crews’ pontuation. The difference between them is very small and it made the tension grow. The strong wind that reached 20 knots of intensity caused some breaks and disruptions of cables and sheets.
The Soling Worlds counts with the participation of 20 crews from Brazil, Germany, Argentina, United States and
Classification (transitory)
1º Roman Koch, Maxl Koch, Gregor Bornemann - GER 300 – 13 points
2º Gustavo Warburg, Hernan Caledoni, Maximo Smith - ARG 32 – 19 points
3º George Nehm, Marcos P. Ribeiro, Lucio P. Ribeiro - BRA 73 – 20 points
4º Guilherme Roth, Carlos Trein, Roger Lamb - BRA 28 – 21 points
5º Cícero Hartmann, Flávio Quevedo, André Renard - BRA 40 - 21 points
Awards of the day and Barbecue
To end the championship’s fourth day, the first tree crews from the two races of the day won Coruja beers (special bottles of 1L), championship mugs and VDS caps as daily awards. A barbecue was served to the competitors, members of the club and guests at VDS soccer field kiosk. Check the pics.
Translation by Dulce Pereira