Monaco's Miani wins Melges 20 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series

by International Audi Melges 20 Class Association on 14 Jul 2014

Guido Miani-Gabriele Benussi, Out of Reach (Sail No. 333) - Melges 20 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series In Riva Del Garda Max Ranchi Photography http://www.maxranchi.com

Melges-20 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series - Riva Del Garda, Italy - The Audi Melges 20 fleet racing the 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series in Riva Del Garda completed three more races on Sunday, congratulating Monaco's Guido Miani aboard Out of Reach with tactician Gabriele Benussi and crew Massimo Gheraducci as champions. Miani headed into Sunday's competition in second overall, yet delivered a winning performance worthy of the top trophy.

Achille Onorato's Mascalzone Latino Jr. claimed second and Roberto Martinez aboard his Audi g-Tron Fratelli Giacomel Melges 20 finished out the podium positions in third.

With three more races added to the overall scoreboard, a single discard went into play throwing out each team's worst score.

Russ Lucas-Harry Melges, III, Shimmer (Sail No. 008) - Melges 20 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series In Riva Del Garda © Max Ranchi Photography http://www.maxranchi.com

Miani's twentieth place finish in the Race Four was his discard, and with bullets in Races Five and Six, he proved to be the top team in Riva this weekend. Pasquale Orofino's Raffica celebrated with a win in Race Four, ultimately helping him move up a spot to finish fifth overall, just behind American Russ Lucas on Shimmer in fourth.

The heat gets a little bit hotter as the mighty international Audi Melges 20 fleet anticipates the World Championship coming up in late August.

Early Riva leader Dario Levi on Fremito D'Arja had a difficult day falling from grace to finish ninth overall, however remains high atop the 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series after four events. Miani is seated second overall, Orofino is third, Onorato is fourth and Giancarlo Capolino on Legionario is fifth.

Next up are three marquee class events - the U.S. National Championship in Newport, RI on August 21-23, the World Championship in Riva del Garda on 25-30 and the North Americans shortly thereafter in San Francisco, CA on October 3-5.

Top ten results (Final - After five races)
1.) Guido Miani-Gabriele Benussi, Out of Reach; 1-9-6-[20]-1-1 = 18
2.) Achille Onorato-Malcolm Page, Mascalzone Latino Jr.; 2-3-12-[13]-4-2 = 23
3.) Roberto Martinez-Enrico Fonda, Audi g-Tron Fratelli Giacomel; 12-[28]-4-12-2-4 = 34
4.) Russ Lucas-Harry Melges, III, Shimmer; 16-6-3-4-10-[23] = 39
5.) Pasquale Orofino-Branko Brcin, Raffica; 5-[18]-13-1-15-8 = 42
6.) Alessandro Rombelli-Danielle Cassinari, STIG; [28]-2-7-25-3-7 = 44
7.) Alexey Bunzya-Konstantin Besputin, Synergy; 20-4-[21]-3-16-5 = 48
8.) Francesco Farnetti-Michele Ivaldi, ITA-157; 4-17-9-[31]-7-16 = 53
9.) Dario Levi-Nicolo Bianchi, Fremito D'Arja; 3-1-1-22-[30]-28 = 55
10.) Manfredi Vianini Tolomei-Lorenzo Bodini, Maolca; 8-[20]-10-7-20-15 = 60

Audi Melges 20 Tron Sailing Series Act 4

Sailed: 6, Discards: 1, To count: 5, Entries: 41, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank

Nat

Sail No

Boat

Helmsman

Tactician / Crew

Nett

1st

333

OUT OF REACH

Guido Miani

Gabriele Benussi / Massimo Gherarducci

1.0

9.0

6.0

(20.0)

1.0

18.0

MON

2nd

MASCALZONE LATINO JR

Achille Onorato

Malcomm Page / Stefano Ciampalini

2.0

3.0

12.0

(13.0)

4.0

2.0

23.0

ITA

3rd

124

AUDI G-TRON F.lli Giacomel

Roberto Martinez

Enrico Fonda / Riccardo Simoneschi

12.0

(28.0)

4.0

12.0

2.0

4.0

34.0

ITA

4th

SHIMMER

Russ Lucas

Harry Melges / Federico Michetti

16.0

6.0

3.0

4.0

10.0

(23.0)

39.0

USA

5th

136

RAFFICA

Pasquale Orofino

Branko Brcin / Marco Scelto

5.0

(18.0)

13.0

1.0

15.0

8.0

42.0

ITA

6th

STIG

Alessandro Rombelli

Daniele Cassinari / Giorgio Tortarolo

(28.0)

2.0

7.0

25.0

3.0

7.0

44.0

ITA

7th

713

SYNERGY

Alexey Bunzya

Konstantin Besputin / Nikolai Kornev

20.0

4.0

(21.0)

3.0

16.0

5.0

48.0

MON

8th

157

ITA 157

Farneti /Musone

Michele Ivaldi

4.0

17.0

9.0

(31.0)

7.0

16.0

53.0

ITA

9th

FREMITO D'ARJA

Dario Levi

Nicolò Bianchi / Stefano Lagi /

Francesca Masotto

3.0

1.0

22.0

(30.0)

28.0

55.0

ITA

10th

167

MAOLCA

Manfredi Vianini Tolomei

Lorenzo Bodini / Matteo Velicogna

8.0

(20.0)

10.0

7.0

20.0

15.0

60.0

ITA

11th

106

ASANTE SANA

Claudio Dutto

Filippo Togni / Gianmarco Togni

(31.0)

10.0

17.0

11.0

13.0

9.0

60.0

ITA

12th

149

CAMAY

Lauro Bonora

Carlo Fracassoli / Andrea Felci / Verena

Weber

24.0

14.0

5.0

10.0

8.0

(42.0 DNF)

61.0

ITA

13th

150

UPUPUP

Bo Boje Pedersen

Michael Hestbah / Kriatian Jorensen

11.0

22.0

(32.0)

17.0

6.0

62.0

DEN

14th

SHIMMER 2

Grace Lucas

Chris Rast / Danielle Rast / Jane Rew

9.0

(24.0)

20.0

5.0

14.0

17.0

65.0

USA

15th

205

3MENDA

Marco Perazzo

Andrea Casale / Nicholas Dal Ferro

(33.0)

8.0

2.0

19.0

18.0

66.0

ITA

16th

199

LEGIONARIO

Giancarlo Capolino

Francesco Ivaldi / Diego Battisti

23.0

16.0

(25.0)

2.0

12.0

13.0

66.0

ITA

17th

112

PECCERE'

Mirko De Falco

Roberto Benamati / Piero Vigo

6.0

27.0

15.0

(32.0)

9.0

10.0

67.0

ITA

18th

189

SAILING LAB

Enrico Pucci

Luca Spazzadeschi / Davide Di Maio

/Taito Sanches

(34.0)

30.0

8.0

22.0

3.0

71.0

ITA

19th

RED SKY

Paul Reily

Andy Burdick / John Rogers

(30.0)

5.0

18.0

23.0

11.0

14.0

71.0

USA

20th

107

LEVIATHAN

Davide Albertini

Nicola Celon / Stefano Orlandi / Giulia

Elba Masotto

7.0

26.0

9.0

23.0

(27.0)

72.0

ITA

21st

154

SPIRIT OF NERINA

Francesco Scarselli

Roberto Spata / Mirko Bargolini / Monica

Pagani

15.0

13.0

29.0

16.0

(39.0)

12.0

85.0

ITA

22nd

271

MAMMA AIUTO

Naofumi Kamei

Manuel Weiller / Takumi Nakamura

21.0

15.0

16.0

(26.0)

24.0

11.0

87.0

JPN

23rd

180

ALOHA

Jan Kuchar

Martin Trcka / Michal Kotek

14.0

25.0

23.0

6.0

(35.0)

20.0

88.0

CZE

24th

CUSTOMLY

Corrado Augusta

Pietro D'Alì / Edorardo Bianchi / Flavia

Tomiselli

19.0

21.0

(34.0)

24.0

5.0

22.0

91.0

MON

25th

CHIMERA

Marco Gambardella

Felice Cupane / Roberto Candela

13.0

29.0

27.0

14.0

18.0

(33.0)

101.0

ITA

26th

262

FLY OR DIE

Denis Lankin

Atrem Basalkin / Anton Sergeev

(36.0)

26.0

11.0

18.0

32.0

21.0

108.0

RUS

27th

108

LUCIFER

Matteo Marenghi Vaselli

Leonardo Chiarugi / Lorenzo Del Rio

29.0

12.0

(30.0)

28.0

21.0

19.0

109.0

MON

28th

192

MEZZA LUNA

Marco Franchini

Sandro Montefusco / Pietro Corbucci

18.0

31.0

(38.0)

15.0

17.0

34.0

115.0

ITA

29th

125

T2R

Tommaso Pavan

Enrico Zennaro / Nello Pavoni

27.0

19.0

22.0

33.0

(34.0)

24.0

125.0

ITA

30th

TAVATUY

Pavel Kuznetsov

Evgeny Neugodnikov / Sergey Musikhin

32.0

14.0

21.0

(36.0)

29.0

128.0

RUS

31st

276

SECTION 16

Richard Davies

Charlie McKee / Matt Pistay

10.0

11.0

24.0

(42.0 DNC)

42.0 DNC

129.0

USA

32nd

ANYWAYANYDAY

Kirill Podolskiy

Sergey Shevtsov / Alexander Bozhko

22.0

(39.0)

19.0

27.0

29.0

35.0

132.0

RUS

33rd

135

FANTASTICHINA

Fritz Homann

Raimondo Tonelli / Enrico Turrini / Fritz

Homann jr.

(40.0)

23.0

31.0

35.0

26.0

141.0

GER

34th

164

HELL CAT

Jurgen Fuchs

Nicolas Opteramp / Corinna Fuchs / Max

Collotta

25.0

34.0

(39.0)

30.0

33.0

31.0

153.0

GER

35th

158

TOMAHAWK

Stefano Santucci

Andrea Fornaro / Carlo Simoncelli /

Davide Duchi

17.0

(37.0)

37.0

34.0

37.0

30.0

155.0

ITA

36th

RUS 44

Sergey Kuznetcov

Aleksey Tarasov / Sergey Pesskov

35.0

36.0

35.0

(42.0 DNS)

25.0

156.0

RUS

37th

113

BRONENOSEC

Vladimir Lubomirov

Alberto Barovier / Alexey Kulakov

26.0

35.0

(41.0)

39.0

27.0

36.0

163.0

RUS

38th

137

TACHICARDIA

Michele Dandolo

Giuliano Cuomo / Gabriele Schiattarella /

Lisa Sartori

39.0

33.0

(40.0)

29.0

31.0

32.0

164.0

ITA

39th

159

AUT159

Klaus Schober

Hermann Kupfner / Gerhard Holzl

38.0

40.0

28.0

36.0

28.0

(42.0 DNF)

170.0

AUT

40th

220

TURNOVER

Renato Vallivero

Andrea Racchelli / Matteo Sprecacenere

37.0

(38.0)

33.0

37.0

38.0

37.0

182.0

ITA

41st

185

ARKTURUS

Degtyarev Andrey

Sergey Ketov / Ivan Shilov

(41.0)

41.0

36.0

38.0

40.0

38.0

193.0

RUS

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