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Key West Race Week: Final Results |
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Barking Mad pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in the 25-year history of the regatta, winning the Farr 40 class despite suffering a dreaded DNF. Barking Mad, skippered by Jim Richardson of Newport, R.I., did not finish Race 2 after a scary man overboard incident.
That type of result usually proves fatal in a no-throwout series, but the Barking Mad team kept plugging away - winning three of the final five races to pull out an improbable one-point victory.
"I wasn't too optimistic that we could win the regatta after what happened in that second race, but we just had to keep sailing with the understanding that every point was crucial," Richardson said. "We got better as the week went along and everything just sort of fell into place at the end."
Richardson steered the boat to a third place finish in Friday's first race, passing Provezza 8 at the finish line. That one point would ultimately prove crucial as Barking Mad wound up winning Race 10 and beating Enfant Terrible (Rossi Alberto, Italy). It was Richardson's second victory in Farr 40 class at Key West.
"We were four points behind Struntje Light and one ahead of Enfant Terrible going into the last race so we figured we had to win and hope those two boats beat each other up," Richardson said. "I think Enfant sat on Struntje a bit and pushed it back to sixth. Things just played out perfectly for us." -- Bill Wagner for Premiere Racing
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R2 |
R3 |
R4 |
R5 |
R6 |
R7 |
R8 |
R9 |
R10 |
Total |
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Owner |
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| Barking Mad |
Jim Richardson (USA) |
3 |
8 |
5 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
34 |
| Enfant Terrible |
Alberto Rossi (ITA) |
7 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
7 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
35 |
| Struntje Light |
Wolfgang Schaefer (GER) |
2 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
6 |
6 |
35 |
| Flash Gordon |
Helmut & Evan Jahn (USA) |
1 |
5 |
3 |
6 |
5 |
5 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
38 |
| Charisma |
Nico Poons (MON) |
5 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
7 |
4 |
38 |
| Groovederci |
John Demourkas (USA) |
4 |
1 |
6 |
1 |
6 |
4 |
5 |
7 |
5 |
5 |
44 |
| Provezza 8 |
Ergin Imre and Onur Erardag (TUR) |
6 |
6 |
7 |
7 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
4 |
4 |
7 |
57 |
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Barking Mad takes European title in Istanbul. Enfant Terrible wins European Circuit 2011. |
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 Istanbul, Turkey. 16th October 2011. In a thrilling conclusion which saw the top two boats heading into the final race of the series tied on points, Barking Mad (USA) has been crowned UNO Farr 40 European Champion 2011. The boat owned by Jim Richardson and with Hamish Pepper calling tactics secured victory with a storming win in the last race. Second place went to Alberto Rossi’s Enfant Terrible (ITA) and Wolfgang Schaefer’s Struntje Light (GER) took third.
Richardson, three time Farr 40 World Champion and former Class president was pleased with the level of competition within the fleet: “The racing was incredibly tight all week; Enfant Terrible, Transfusion, Struntje Light and our boat were neck and neck for quite a while and we went into the last race tied on points with Enfant – who would have won the tie-break as we hadn’t won any races - and just 2 points ahead of Transfusion.”
It was only the last downwind leg of the final race that Richardson knew victory was within his grasp: “We were trailing both Transfusion and Enfant at the top mark. The boats were very close together and when we went down the run they ended up going round the right hand mark, which was the favoured one, and we had to go around the left hand mark. It turned out that we got a really good right hand wind shift and some pressure and got ahead of both of them but it wasn’t until we got around the last top mark and set a spinnaker and got a monster puff that we extended our lead quite a bit. It was definitely an exciting event right to the end.”
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