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TeamOrigin struggles for downwind speed in Audi MedCup Coastal Race

'PORTUGAL, Cascais, AUDI MedCup, 15th May 2010, Portugal Trophy, TP52 TEAMORIGIN.' Ian Roman/TEAMORIGIN

Today saw the spectacular coastal race take place on day four of this Audi MedCup series, a 38 mile battle with winds forecast between 15 and 25 knots.

This was an important race in the series as the results hold a 1.5 point multiplier. TEAMORIGIN started with great promise, yet again an awesome start and leading for the first lap, but then appearing to struggle for speed in the long downwind legs, ending up in a disappointing ninth position. Emirates Team New Zealand took a comfortable race win consolidating their position at the top of the leaderboard with two races to go. TEAMORIGIN now lie in a very close fourth place going into the last day.

For full story go to www.medcup.org

PORTUGAL, Cascais, AUDI MedCup, 15th May 2010, Portugal Trophy, TP52 TEAMORIGIN. - Ian Roman-TEAMORIGIN

TEAMORIGIN quotes from today:

Mike Sanderson, TEAMORIGIN Team Director : 'We had an awesome start, led from the outset and had a great first lap. Near Cape raso mark we seemed to slow, maybe foul tide and ETNZ got ahead of us, they then blew a spinnaker and we passed them again and from then on we were completely off the pace. We are not sure why, maybe we caught a bag or something but it did not feel right so we are spending the time to analyse and work it out.

All in all a very disappointing day for the guys, for sure you do not expect to be leading for a whole lap after an awesome start and then finish in ninth place, pretty unheard of so something is wrong for sure and we will find the way to put it right and move on.'

Juan Vila, TEAMORIGIN Navigator, added 'We had a pretty good first beat and first run and going into Cabo Raso mark we felt a bit slower there, from then on other boats overtook us and we couldn’t really find the pace to get back into it, now we need to find the reason why.'

Coastal race results from today:
1. Emirates team New Zealand
2. Matador
3. Audi A1 powered by ALL4ONE
4. Artemis
5. Bribon
6. Bigamist 7
7. Quantum
8. Cristabella
9. TEAMORIGIN
10. Synergy
11. Luna Rossa

TP52 Series results – overall after Day 4
1. Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL), 27.5 points
2. Audi A1 powered by ALL4ONE (FRA/GER), 41.5
3. Artemis (SWE), 42
4. TeamOrigin (GBR), 42.5
5. Synergy (RUS), 49
6. Matador (ARG), 52
7. Quantum (USA), 53.5
8. Cristabella (GBR), 55
9. Luna Rossa (ITA), 61.5
10. Bribon (ESP), 64.5
11. Bigamist 7 (POR),75

Race schedule for Sunday 16th May

2 short inshore races to complete the series, schedule warning signal at 1300

To follow racing with live race coverage streaming with virtual eye go to:
www.teamorigin.com
www.medcup.org

by TeamOrigin Media

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8:40 PM Sat 15 May 2010 GMT

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