Audi MedCup, un nuovo TP52 per Quantum Racing
Audi MedCupLevel ClassQuantum SailsTP52Vela 20 Settembre 2010 Zerogradinord 0
Audi MedCup – Cagliari – Grandi sorrisi in casa Audi MedCup. Il team più fedele ala manifestazione, Quantum Racing, in regata sin dal 2005 pur se su Warpath e Windquest, ha annunciato la costruzione di una nuova barca per la stagione 2011. Passerà quindi di mano l’attuale barca del 2008, dominatrice all’esordio e poi sempre a ridosso dei primi.
A disegnare il nuovo TP52 sarà sempre lo studio di Botin&Carkeek. La costruzione verrà affidata a Longitude Zero di Chimo Lopez e sarà completata all’inizio del 2011.
“Abbiamo deciso di far costruire un nuovo Quantum Racing perchè abbiamo capito che l’Audi MedCup ci sarà ancora per qualche anno, questo ci ha fatto valutare l’investimento sotto un punto di vista diverso” ha commentato il presidente del Quantum Sails Design Group, Ed Reynolds.
Felice Nacho Postigo, direttore del circuito: “Siamo davvero contenti per questa novità. Pare che Quantum Racing sia il primo di una nutrita schiera di team che pensano a nuove barche per il 2011″.
Video courtesy Audi MedCup.
AUDI MEDCUP, QUANTUM RACING ANNOUNCES NEW BOAT
[Audi MedCup Press Release] Long time Audi MedCup Circuit competitors and fans Quantum Racing are the first of several teams to announce that they will campaign a new build boat for next season. Today at the Region of Sardinia Trophy in Cagliari Quantum Racing announced that they will build a new boat for the 2011 Circuit.
Their 2008 Audi MedCup championship winning programme was the culmination of investment and participation on the world’s leading regatta circuit, having competed with Lexus in the inaugural year 2005, through the Quantum-powered Warpath and Windquest before the present Quantum Racing took to the water in 2008. Quantum Racing finished second last year, and lie second overall on the 2010 Audi MedCup Circuit.
The new Quantum Racing will follow a very similar established winning recipe, being designed by Botin Carkeek and built in Spain by Chimo Lopez Longtitude Zero in Burriana, ready for launching and work up in the Mediterranean early next season.
Project manager Ed Reynolds, President of Quantum Sail Design Group said: “We want to support the Audi MedCup. I’ve watched for years when a new one design class or a new boat comes out and it’s always like ‘well if you sell six boats we’ll buy one’. Somebody just has to stand up first and say ‘we believe the direction, we believe the new concept and we like the new boats.”
“We’re going to be here for a while and hopefully it will all kind of give enough confidence to some of the other teams to say yes, the Audi MedCup is going to be here for a while let’s step up and go too”.
“The Audi MedCup is the most competitive, highest level of monohull racing ever, it is so intense, so defined, and I personally believe what’s happened with the Americas Cup with multihulls has created an amazing opportunity for the Medcup to truly take a grip of grand prix, the ultimate level of sailing in the world.”
Nacho Postigo, Audi MedCup Circuit Technical Director, added: “It is great that Quantum Racing is the first of a good number of teams to commit to building new boats for next year. It makes me very happy because they have been sponsoring a boat since Day 1, since 2005, and it proves well that the Circuit recovers your investment very nicely. That is on the business part of the equation.”
“But to have one of the teams which have been consistently top three returning is great, too, because it means that the high level will be maintained, but it is also a level which can be achieved by individual, private owners as well.”
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