Sebastien Col pronto per il World Match Racing Tour
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[singlepic=1127,250,170,,left]World Match Racing Tour – Parigi – Di ritorno dalle Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, dove ha guidato Pataugas K-Challenge sino a un passo dai quarti di finale delle Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, Sebastien Col, numero uno della ranking list mondiale di match race, è pronto a debuttare nel World Match Racing Tour. L’obiettivo dello skipper francese, che durante la stagione guiderà un equipaggio composto da membri di K-Challenge, consorzio francese iscritto alla 33ma America’s Cup, è quello di detronizzare Ian Williams, da due stagioni campione del mondo di specialità.
Il primo appuntamento, che vedrà impegnati tutti i più forti interpreti della difficile arte dell’uno contro uno – Ian Williams, Mathiue Richard, Paolo Cian, Adam Minoprio, Torvar Mirsky, Ben Ainslie, Ed Baird e Magnus Holmberg – è in calendario per marzo. Teatro dell’evento sarà Marsiglia, dove lo Yacht Club de la Pointe Rouge organizzerà il Marseille International Match Race.
SEBASTIEN COL WILL START 2009 WORLD MATCH RACING TOUR SEASON IN MARSEILLE
[Sebastien Col Press Release] Back from the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in Auckland, New Zealand, where Sebastien Col led K-Challenge‘s team against the best America’s Cup skippers to launch the 2009 season, he will race again with most of them this year on the World Match Racing Tour. Sebastien will have the goal to reach what he missed last year for a few points only: the Match Racing World Champion title.
So this season looks very promising in terms of sailing show and duels, as most of these “top skippers” will already start the tour at the Marseille International Match Race in order to put all the chances on their side, and to get points, as the MIMR becomes this year the first official event of “sailing’s ATP tour”, which is the World Match Racing Tour.
The competition will take place from 9 to 14 March on Marseille’s fabulous race course, and will be organized with the support of YCPR (Yachting Club de la Pointe Rouge), which is Sebastien Col’s yacht club.
Six teams are already qualified thanks to the new World Tour cards for all the World Tour’s events:
– Ian Williams (GBR), Bahrain Team Pindar
– Sébastien Col (FRA), French Team/K-Challenge
– Mathieu Richard (FRA), French Team/Team French Spirit
– Paolo Cian (ITA), Team Shosholoza
– Adam Minoprio (NZL), Emirates Team New Zealand/Black Match Racing
– Torvar Mirsky (AUS), Mirsky Racing Team
Other top teams are also planning to compete in this year’s World Match Racing Tour, such as Ben Ainslie (Team Origin) or Magnus Holmberg (Victory Challenge).
Sebastien Col’s team in Marseille will be formed of Christophe Andre, Gilles Favennec and Pascal Rambeau.
Sebastien Col : “I´m very happy for my club, YCPR, and all the club members who helped this event to grow year by year with the support of the French Sailing Federation. It is a great asset for us to have a World Match Racing Tour’s event here. We start this season leading the world ranking, and we will prepare the event with a training with the French team in Marseille with our sparring partners. I´m looking forward to sailing again with Pascal Rambeau, as we did a very good test together last year: we won a grade 1 event in Berlin. Everybody in our team was happy to sail with Pascal. With Christophe Andre and Gilles Favennec, we have a very good team. It is up to us to be good and to work properly!”.
Sebastien Col and his crew will take part this year to the ten events in the World Match Racing Tour’s programme, and they will also sail the Congressional Cup (Long Beach, California, 23-28 March).
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