Live Coverage Qualifying Start at Match Race Germany

• Helen.zhang

  27 May 11, 10:18

  Live Coverage of Qualifying Set to Start at Match Race Germany

  2011-05-25 16:41 

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  LANGENARGEN, Germany, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Live coverage of stage 2 of the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT), Match Race Germany, will begin on Wednesday with the first Qualifying Session after the teams finished honing their skills on the new fleet of Bavaria 40S yachts on Lake Constance.  Damien Iehl getting to grips with the Bavaria 40S (C) Photo: Chris Davies/WMRT Conditions for the Qualifying Sessions are forecasted to be light and shifty which will present the teams with a considerable test on board the Bavaria 40S boats as Phil Robertson (NZL) WAKA Racing highlighted: "You rarely get over 5 knots here usually, that's what we got during our Practice Session. In the new Bavaria 40S that was quite a challenge.  Those boats gain quite a lot of momentum because they're pretty heavy which can be a good thing in light winds but you need to get up to speed quickly." The first Qualifying Session will be the first opportunity to see Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team and Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team in action, with the two going head-to-head in Flight 3. Alongside the recognised faces of the Tour Card Holders stand William Tiller (NZL) Full Metal Jacket Racing, Eric Monin (SWI) Team Ocalys Corum, Eugeniy Neugodnikov (RUS) Team Synergy and Stefan Meister, a skipper that Bjorn Hansen (DEN) Mekonomen Sailing Team believes has the potential to cause a few upsets here: "Stefan is a very good match racer. I know him well from the Berlin Match Race and believe he's capable of not only winning some matches but also stands a real chance of making the Semi-Finals." The first Qualifying Session kicks off with an interview with Mathieu Richard on the 'WMRT Morning Show' from 09.30 CET* on Wednesday followed by live coverage of all the action between 13.00 and 15.00 CET*. The 'WMRT Today Show' from 19.30 CET* will review all the day's events from Lake Constance. Visit:www.wmrt.com/multimedia/video-gallery.html A live blog will run on www.wmrt.com throughout the day to give flight by flight updates. Also follow the action on the WMRT Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/worldmatchracingtour and Twitter pagehttp://twitter.com/worldmrt .  *Times dependant on racing conditions. Full list of teams for Match Race Germany Mathieu Richard (France) - French Match Racing Team Bjorn Hansen (Sweden) - Mekonomen Sailing Team Eugeney Neugodnikov (Russia) - Team Synergy Francesco Bruni (Italy) - Bruni Racing Team Phil Robertson (New Zealand) - WAKA Racing Damien Iehl (France) - French Match Racing Team Peter Gilmour (Australia) - YANMAR Racing Eric Monnin (Switzerland) - Team Ocalys Corum Johnie Berntsson (Sweden) - Berntsson Sailing Team  Jesper Radich (Denmark) - Adrian Lee & Partners Racing Team William Tiller (New Zealand) - Full Metal Jacket Racing Stefan Meister (Germany) - German Match Race Champion For more information on WMRT, please contact: Audrey Lakai Communications Department +60-12-502-2206 [email protected]   SOURCE　World Match Racing Tour