Day 2 - 2006 Soling Europeans
by Matias Collins on 17 May 2006
On the second day of the 2006 Soling Europeans and second Mercedes Benz Grand Prix the wind blew with an average of 7 and some gusts of 12 knots from the North - north west.
Two windward leeward courses race had also a great consistency from the MKA Ukrainian team with Pichuguin, Timokhov and Chehlately who again placed a second in the first race and a first in the second race as on the first day of racing finishing with 6 points and the overall lead.
Two teams one NOR128 Wild Thing and GER300 the MARINEPOOL team were OCS in the second race leaving the day for T-Mobile team HUN 77 with Wossala, Vezer and Nemeth who won the first race and with a 5th in the second went into second place overall with 20 points.
Best palced British boat are Derek Priestley, Shaun Priestley and Gary Adams in sixteenth place overall.
Results after day 2 - 4 races:
1 UKR 1 Sergey Pichuguin Sergey Timokhov Ivan Chehlatiy 2 1 2 1 6pts
2 HUN 77 George Wossala Nemeth Peter Karoly Vezer 11 3 1 5 20
3 AUT 117 Carl Auteried Martin Kendler Udo Moser 7 4 3 7 21
4 SLO 1 Bostjan Antoncic Gennadi Strakh a not decided 1 12 5 3 21
5 GER 49 Holger Weichert Laurent Scheel Ingo Herrmann 6 6 7 6 25
6 HUN 17 Mandaraz Tamas Kovasci Lazslo Kelecsenyi Peter 5 7 20 2 34
7 DEN 126 Frank Lavrsen Claus Lauritsen Jeppe Djurtoft 9 5 12 8 34
8 GER 300 Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann 4 2 4 OCS 36
9 NED 25 Johan Offermans Bas Dusee Jasper Bik 3 13 10 10 36
10 NED 38 Bram Soethoudt Gilbert Figaroa Geert Verheij 8 11 9 9 37
11 GER 318 Markus Marquardt Heino Schuckmann Tobias Hanke 12 10 11 12 45
12 AUT 121 Christian Nothhaft Martin Zeileis Patrick Wichmann 21 17 6 4 48
13 GER 267 Jan Carl Kochen Deertz Bernd Alexander Holl 14 8 14 16 52
14 NOR 128 Preben Asbjørnrød Richard Fikse Bernt Ole Christensen 10 9 8 OCS 53
15 USA 807 Matias Collins Johann Kalhs Dominik Meissner 16 19 13 11 59
16 GBR 169 Derek Priestley Shaun Priestley Gary Adams 13 15 16 19 63
17 NOR 135 Finn Thorkildsen Rolf Carstensen Jan Kirkedam 15 18 17 15 65
18 HUN 53 Peter Szucs Istvan Szucs Gabor Gyulai 19 16 18 13 66
19 CAN 227 Tom Mitchell Robin Earle Dave Richards 17 14 24 14 69
20 HUN 290 Paal Laszlo Zoltan Sabjan Zoltán Nyiri 18 21 15 21 75
21 NOR 148 Jan Krøger Kenneth Norby Petter Hammarstrøm 20 23 19 17 79
22 GER 243 Emil Kuchta Jörg Schmidt Susanne Kuchta 22 20 22 18 82
23 GER 228 Harald Voit Heinz Herzer Stefan Lutzenberger 23 22 21 20 86
24 ITA 241 Luca Montanarella Gergely Toth Francesco Attardo 24 24 23 22 93
25 HUN 777 Imre Vrabély László Schmutz Ádám Vrabély 25 25 25 25 100
Event website: http://www.solingeuropeans.com
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