TEAMORIGIN WINS TRAPANI CENTO CUP
Against a star-studded line-up of skippers from the last America's Cup, including the two Danish helmsmen Jes Gram Hansen and Jesper Raddich, the Australian James Spithill and the Italian Paolo Cian, TEAMORIGIN's Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy, Matt Cornwell and guest Gabriel Bruni competed in and won the 2007 Trapani Cento Cup. Trapani, on the extreme western tip of the Italian island of Sicily, was the site of Acts 8 & 9, a pair of build-up regattas for the last America's Cup sailed in full size America's Cup Class yachts in October 2005.
"This was our first international competition sailing together, our team worked well together and developed well as we went through the regatta.
Sailing with Iain worked really well from a tactical point of view and this result is an important step forward for us" commented skipper Ben Ainslie.
Against a star-studded line-up of skippers from the last America's Cup, including the two Danish helmsmen Jes Gram Hansen and Jesper Raddich, the Australian James Spithill and the Italian Paolo Cian, TEAMORIGIN's Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy, Matt Cornwell and guest Gabriel Bruni competed in and won the 2007 Trapani Cento Cup. Trapani, on the extreme western tip of the Italian island of Sicily, was the site of Acts 8 & 9, a pair of build-up regattas for the last America's Cup sailed in full size America's Cup Class yachts in October 2005.
"This was our first international competition sailing together, our team worked well together and developed well as we went through the regatta.
Sailing with Iain worked really well from a tactical point of view and this result is an important step forward for us" commented skipper Ben Ainslie.
Final results:
1. B. Ainslie, GBR, 9
2. P. Cian, ITA, 8
3. J. Spithill, AUS, 7
4. S. Minoprio, NZL, 6.5
5. J. Gram-Hansen, DEN, 6
