The race was intense and the leaders changed at every mark. It was a stressful one, watching the sailors fight in a boat-to-boat combat for the lead. At the first mark, Peter Vesella took the lead with a tight fleet rounding. Paul Cayard came from the left side of the course and tacked behind Peter consolidating the second place. The downwind was a speed battle where Luke Lawrence took a big advantage rounding the second mark in first position.
He was ahead of the fleet till the last downwind where Diego Negri took the lead and made a solid race to the finish line. With five of six scheduled races completed and with the worst score discarded there are still three teams on the bubble hoping to sail well enough to keep their hopes alive for the gold. Results after five races: 1-Diego Negri / Sergio Lambertenghi 2-Augie Diaz / Bruno Prada 3-Brian Ledbetter / Joshua Revkin 4-Peter Vessella / Phil Trinter 5-Lars Schmidt Grael / Samuel Goncalves 6-Torben Schmidt Grael / Guilherme de Almeida 7-Andrew Macdonald / Brad Nichol 8-Luke Lawrence / Ian Coleman 9-George Szabo / Steve Mitchell 10-Paul Cayard / Brian Fatih 2016 International Star Class World Championship - Preliminary Cumulative Results