F18 Argentine Nats 2011 Day 2: More perfect conditions. Faustín-Smith lead

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All photos Marcela Zapiola marcelazapiola.com.ar


Another perfect day of racing for the 4th Arg Nationals. Juan Faustín and Lucas Gonzalez Smith are leading and tied with Larsen-Franck. Esteban Blando and Nico Aragonés only one point behind! So we are having a tough super competitive event. Nothing defined yet, 4 races today and we expect at least 3 more tomorrow.
Today 10-12knot South-East almost no chop, just double trapeze conditions.

My crew and owner of the MKII, Esteban Daneri is showing that you can have 54 and be competitive even crewing! Hat off to him, he ended without forces after 4 races and maybe tomorrow he will pass but we have some excellent moments, like starting one on one with Gunnar and maintaining speed and angle after two laps, then when we were comfortably third the rc put a third one (first two races with two laps only) and Esteban Blando caught us at the final leg, we ended 4th again (ocs was 4th) racing at top level. 

Then with more wind our chances diminished due to extra power handling needed for the crews, nevertheless we managed to end always on the top ten or just about. 

Juan-Lucas and Esteban-Nico are making an incredible job putting high pressure over Gunnar and Sam, literally giving them a run for their money.

We have a small but powered up fleet, watch out with any Argie racing abroad, we are some serious fanatics. 

Final day tomorrow, Cruz and Mariano or Mehl-Stunzi may score 3 bullets on higher winds too so anything can happen.

This is F18 racing.

Pl Sail Crew From 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tot
1 1496 Juan Faustim & Lucas Gonzalez Smith Aguila 1 1 3 3 -5 2 4 14
2 1933 Gunnar Larsen & Frank Sam Kzus 4 3 2 -5 2 1 2 14
3 2016 Esteban Blando & Nicolas Aragones CVR/CNSI (24DNS) 4 1 1 1 3 5 15
4 7 Sergio Mehl & Hunler Stunzi Aguila 3 2 7 2 4 -10 3 21
5 1479 Cruz Gonzalez & Mariano Heuser Aguila 2 5 -10 7 3 5 1 23
6 666 Ian Rodger & Juan M. Benitez Aguila/YCA 5 -9 5 4 7 6 6 33
7 1099 Le Clainche Pierre & Antoine Joubert SR Vanner 7 6 4 -9 9 8 7 41
8 1527 Martin Vanzulli & Esteban Daneri Aguila 6 (24OCS) 6 12 11 4 10 49
9 300 Sergio Armesto & Joaquin Duarte Argerich YCA 9 13 8 8 -17 7 8 53
10 1110 Franco Greggi & Gastón Terrab YCA/CVB (24DNS) 7 11 10 10 12 9 59
11 355 Alberto Veira & Harold Meerhoff Aguila 10 12 -13 13 8 9 12 64
12 18 Agustin Krevinski & Eduardo Lopez Segura CNP (24DNS) 8 9 6 6 17 21 67
13 1062 Juan P. Sucic & Juan C. Copani YCA 8 14 14 14 16 14 (24DNS) 80
14 1569 Cristian Vilate & Fernando Sotelino Aguila (24DNS) 24OCS 12 11 13 11 13 84
15 163 Gabriel Berberian & Leo Culotta Cuba 11 10 15 15 (24OCS) 16 19 86
16 164 Alejandro Caputo & Suizo Mazza Aguila (24DNS) 24OCS 16 16 14 13 11 94
17 117 Juan Grunwaldt & Juan Grunwaldt YCU (24DNS) 11 17 20 12 18 17 95
18 1109 Alfonso F. Gutierrez & Tomas P de Castro Rapel Chile (24DNS) 15 18 17 19 15 14 98
19 1531 Guillermo Castro & Jose M. Collazo Aguila 12 17 -19 18 18 19 18 102
20 1238 Gustavo Ozuna & Javier Poclava Aguila (24DNS) 16 24DNF 19 15 22 16 112
21 60 Nicolas Petre & Hernan Vazquez Aguila (24DNS) 24DNS 24DNS 21 20 20 20 129
22 1124 Federico Heusel & Javier Heusel (24DNS) 24OCS 24OCS 22 24DNF 21 15 130
23 2527 Lucas M. Leiva & Gonzalo Nieto CVR (24DNS) 18 24DNF 23 21 24DNF 22 132