(Photo Credit: ROLEX / Carlo Borlenghi)
The Maxi 72 Class got two races off today in the Rolex Maxi World Championship. Bella Mente Racing, led by owner/driver Hap Fauth, finished with a fourth and first place, respectively, and holds a four-point lead going into the final day of racing tomorrow.
Terry Hutchinson
One bad and one good race onboard Bella Mente today. The constant though is working for the averages, trying to get away clean from the start and let our speed work for us. I am not sure we are always the fastest as everybody seems to have there moments and yet Hap, Skip, Sean, Morgan, Doogie, and Pete do a great job getting us upwind. It will be all to play for tomorrow and that is all we can ask. We maintain a slim margin over Momo and Robertissima with Proteus in striking distance; should be a good fight!
Mike Sanderson
When all the world’s best meteorologist services are disagreeing on the forecast for the day, you know you are in for a tricky old day, and sure enough, that was very much the case. We tried to make the smart calls sail wise for the two coastal races. We erred on the conservative side and that was the right call. I think we used all but one of the sails we carried so thats not a bad guess! The racing didn’t all go our way, but the nice thing with the Bella team is that the process on how we attack the racing is very consistent. We try as best we can to take the emotion out of it, no matter if we are first or last, and a few times today we where both!
Tomorrow it’s just business as usual. We have a couple of races that we need to go out and fight until the very end for.
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