Bundock and Ashby win Tornado Worlds

by Sail-World/GJN on 10 Dec 2006
Australia's Darren Bundock and Glen Ashby have won the 2006 Tornado World Championships in San Isidro, Argentina with a race to spare. The Aussie pair sat-out the final race which was won by the local team, Santiago Lange and Carlos Espinola, who took the silver ahead of the Athen's Gold medallists Austria's Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher.

Briton's Leigh McMillan and William Howden managed a last race ninth place finish, their best of the series, to take 19th place overall, one place ahead of GBR team mates Rob Wilson and Mark Bulkeley. All the british teams struggled to put together a consistant series and single figure finishes were hard to come by.

Bundock and Ashby were in top form with a consistant series that saw off the early challenge of Hagara and Steinacher who faltered in the second half of the series. And despite the late charge of Lange and Espinola they had sufficiant in hand to spectate the final race.

Bundock commented:

'The truth is that we came to win. It is sure that we waited for more wind but also we adapted to the conditions and we are very content with the result. It was one very intense week in which everything went perfectly.'

CLUB NAUTICO SAN ISIDRO CAMPEONATO MUNDIAL HSBC 2006 Series Summary, Preliminary

Pl	B#	Sail #	Crew	Tot	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	7	AUS8	Darren Bundock & Glenn Ashby	23	6	2	4	2	1	5	1	2	(48\DNS)
2	43	ARG1	Santiago Lange & Carlos Espinola	37	7	(23)	8	4	12	2	2	1	1
3	16	AUT3	Roman Hagara & Hans Peter Steinacher	41	1	8	1	3	2	(33)	11	4	11
4	21	GRE7	Iordanis Paschalidis & Constantinos Trigonis	67	(31)	3	13	7	9	11	5	11	8
5	3	FRA7	Yann Guichard & Alexandre Guyader	77	9	(31)	14	18\RDG	6	16	6	5	3
6	2	GER7	Johannes Polgar & Florian Spalteholz	80	15	1	(28)	10	4	4	4	15	27
7	4	ESP1	Fernando Echavarri & Anton Paz	89	11	13	12	22	7	19	(26)	3	2
8	15	FRA5	Billy Besson & Arnaud Jarlegan	98	10	21	15	1	18	3	21	9	(24)
9	26	PUR1	Enrique Figueroa & Jorge Hernandez	105	3	18	25	17	5	18	(31)	12	7
10	1	FRA1	Xavier Revil & Christophe Espagnon	108	2	5	22	24	11	7	12	(26)	25
11	9	GER1104	Roland Gaebler & Gunnar Struckmann	111	12	10	19	19	14	22	7	8	(36)
12	18	FRA298	Matthieu Souben & Gurvan Bontemps	115	5	28	11	9	20	12	9	21	(33)
13	27	FRA11	François Morvan & Matthieu Vandame	115	8	29	9	15	10	6	8	(48\DSQ)	30
14	14	NED8	Mitch Booth & Pim Nieuwenhis	120	4	12	7	27	22	27	(34)	16	5
15	8	FRA302	Oliver Backes & Paul - Ambroise Sevestre	129	26	17	(32)	5	8	29	13	25	6
16	6	CAN7	Oskar Johansson & Kevin Stittle	131	29	19	24	8	3	25	19	(30)	4
17	22	ESP104	Javier Padron & Antonio Cuevas Mons	131	23	4	26	13	17	9	(33)	18	21
18	28	ITA257	Francesco Marcolini & Edoardo Bianchi	131	20	6	18	6	24	(30)	14	24	19
19	5	GBR436	Leigh Mc Millan & William Howden	134	19	11	16	28	15	17	(48\OCS)	19	9
20	11	GBR7	Rob Wilson & Mark Bulkeley	136	18	9	29	26	(36)	14	22	6	12
21	19	BEL7	Carolijn Brouwer & Sebbe Godefroid	146	28	14	30	11	(34)	32	3	14	14
22	13	RUS97	Andrey Kirilyuk & Valery Ushkov	149	30	(33)	2	31	25	8	15	20	18
23	10	GBR430	Andrew Walsh & Edward Barney	155	24	20	5	33	19	15	(37)	22	17
24	23	GER1096	Tino Mittelmeier & Niko Mittelmeier	162	14	25	6	20	23	23	(39)	23	28
25	31	USA804	Daniel Robbie & Gary Chu	163	13	(48\DNF)	17	12	29	10	10	35	37
26	39	NED1	Misch Heemskerk & Herbert Dercksen	168	(48\OCS)	7	20	21	41	1	27	28	23
27	12	USA808	John Lovell & Charlie Ogletree	169	(48\OCS)	15	10	25	16	31	17	29	26
28	20	ITA5	Vincenzo Sorrentino & Giorgio Colombo	171	21	22	(48\OCS)	18	27	26	35	7	15
29	24	AUT381	Thomas Zajac & Thomas Czajka	183	16	27	23	(48\OCS)	30	21	29	27	10
30	32	NZL87	Aaron Mcintosh & Bruce Kendall	186	(48\OCS)	34	27	29	13	20	24	17	22
31	17	ESP23	Toni Rivas & Fabian Escude	187	(48\OCS)	26	3	14	21	34	28	48\DNS	13
32	25	GBR434	Hugh Styles & Tom Peel	199	32	(48\DNF)	21	23	40	35	18	10	20
33	40	GBR438	Christopher Rashley & Marcus Lynch	216	22	24	31	34	26	36	30	13	(38)
34	35	POR1	Diogo Cayolla & Frederico Cerveira	216	25	30	(34)	30	33	24	25	33	16
35	37	RUS7	Sergey Dzhienbaev & Maxim Semenov	247	(48\OCS)	36	33	48\OCS	28	13	23	32	34
36	42	BRA1	Andre Mirsky & Naldi Gual	249	34	37	(39)	16	32	28	36	34	32
37	33	NED100	Wouter Samana & Jeroen Van Leeuwen	255	35	16	36	32	38	37	32	(39)	29
38	41	BRA37	Bruno Di Bernardi & Andre Chang	258	27	35	38	37	35	39	16	31	(48\OCS)
39	36	USA840	Donald Thinschmidt & Andrew Wierda	274	(48\DSQ)	32	41	36	31	38	20	37	39
40	47	ARG29	Fernando Garcia Guevara & Gustavo Mariani	288	17	40	(42)	41	37	41	40	41	31
41	38	AUT360	Thomas Jessenig & Stefan Jessenig	297	33	39	35	38	39	(43)	38	40	35
42	30	USA813	Mike Grandfield & Brock Callen	320	36	38	37	35	44	40	(48\DNF)	48\DNS	42
43	46	ARG360	Esteban Blando & Alejandro Noe	322	37	41	40	40	42	42	42	38	(48\OCS)
44	34	UKR21	Stanislav Golembievskyy & Olexiy Voloshenyuk	327	39	42	43	42	43	(44)	41	36	41
45	44	CAN2	Alan Dubuc & Mark Herendeen	340	40	43	44	43	(45)	45	43	42	40
46	51	CHN112	Luo Youjia & Xiuke Chen	361	38	(48\DNF)	48\OCS	39	46	46	48\DNS	48\DNS	48\DNS
47	45	GER1103	Jochen Seifert & Jurgen Tiemann	366	41	44	45	44	(48\DNS)	48\DNS	48\DNS	48\DNS	48\DNS