Samba Pa Ti secures the title
After one final race off Riva del Garda, John Kilroy at the helm of Samba Pa Ti, alongside tactician Paul Goodison and crew Jeff Reynolds proved they were more than deserving of the 2014 Audi Melges 20 World Champion title. In four days of racing the US team scored no lower than a 14th place in a 57 strong fleet, excelling in almost all conditions.
"All we wanted to do for the start of the race today was to control Mascalzone as they were the only ones that could possibly win the event other than us. So, we did a little match racing on the start," commented a very happy Kilroy. "Things just went our way. Everything just went right for us. We've trained a lot and we have a great team."
Kilroy attributes much of this week's success to the training he has been doing in his home town of San Francisco, California with his son, 11-year old Liam Kilroy who helms Wildman. "The training we did against and with Wildman made me a much better small boat driver. We did a lot of match racing, practiced straight-line speed work and crew kinetics so, hats off to Wildman as they really made us a better team."
In second overall was Achille Onorato helming Mascalzone Latino, Jr. with tactician double Olympic 470 Gold medallist Malcolm Page and Stefano Campialini as crew. Rounding out the top three is Guido Miani on Monaco Racing Fleet with tactician Gabriele Benussi and crew Massimo Gherarducci, which is the only team other than Samba Pa Ti to have won three races this week in Riva.
In the all-amateur Corinthian division (all ISAF Group 1 on board), Marco Gambarella's Chimera edged out American John Brown's Blind Squirrel for the overall title with Paul Currie's Wild Deuces from Canada third.
For now, the World Championship title remains in the hands of the Americans for another year.
Meanwhile the newly crowned 2014 Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series Champion is Guido Miani. Over the last few months, since the start of the Series in Naples, which then traveled onward to Porto Ercole, Talamone and Riva Del Garda, Miani has been challenged by Dario Levi's Fremito D'Arja all along - until today. Onorato placed second in the series, while Levi finished in third overall. Pasquale Orofino's Raffica and Mirko De Falco's Peccere completed the top of the Series ranking in fourth and fifth respectively.
In 2015, the World Championship will take place in San Francisco, California hosted by the San Francisco Yacht Club to be held over 30th September-3 October.
Full results below
Results
Pos | Sail no | Yacht | Owner/Skipper | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | Net |
1 | USA 13131 | Samba Pa Ti | John Kilroy | 13 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 40 |
2 | ITA 23 | Mascalzone Latino | Achille Onorato | 18 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 56 |
3 | MON 333 | Monaco Racing Fleet | Guido Miani | 27 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 2 | 60 |
4 | JPN 271 | Mamma Aiuto! | Naofumi Kamei | 17 | 21 | 30 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 97 |
5 | USA 008 | Shimmer | Russ Lucas | 5 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 22 | 3 | 11 | 35 | 107 |
6 | ITA 50 | Fremito D'arja | Dario Levi | 6 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 30 | 45 | 110 |
7 | USA 14 | Red Sky Sailing Team | Paul Reilly | 12 | 22 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 24 | 21 | 123 |
8 | USA 1315 | Ninkasi | John Taylor | 8 | 8 | 36 | 35 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 5 | 25 | 125 |
9 | USA 217 | Slingshot | Wes Whitmyer Jr | 45 | 24 | 9 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 7 | 16 | 129 |
10 | ITA 65 | STIG | Alessandro Rombelli | 11 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 9 | 43 | 10 | 41 | 14 | 20 | 131 |
11 | USA 276 | Section 16 | Richard Davies | 20 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 58/OCS | 23 | 29 | 11 | 132 |
12 | ITA 106 | Asante Sana Sailing Team | Claudio Dutto | 9 | 7 | 31 | 10 | 31 | 36 | 7 | 35 | 6 | 6 | 142 |
13 | USA 311 | Wildman | Liam Kilroy | 3 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 31 | 19 | 32 | 26 | 143 |
14 | ITA 157 | ITA 157 | Francesco Farneti | 22 | 33 | 18 | 32 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 13 | 25 | 4 | 143 |
15 | ITA 167 | Maolca | Manfredi Vianini Tolomei | 7 | 20 | 21 | 18 | 30 | 14 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 42 | 153 |
16 | CZE 180 | Aloha | Jan Kuchar | 25 | 11 | 7 | 24 | 23 | 28 | 2 | 49 | 16 | 31 | 167 |
17 | ITA 112 | Peccere' | Mirko de Falco | 44 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 20 | 37 | 21 | 21 | 15 | 167 |
18 | MON 108 | Lucifer | Matteo Marenghi Vaselli | 16 | 10 | 27/SCP | 33 | 13 | 17 | 27 | 6 | 19 | 43 | 168 |
19 | ITA 124 | Audi G-Tron F.lli Giacomel | Roberto Martinez | 24 | 28 | 1 | 20 | 29 | 22 | 32 | 29 | 12 | 5 | 170 |
20 | RUS 173 | Ost Legal | Vladimir Lipavsky | 26 | 32 | 14 | 16 | 27 | 18 | 26 | 2 | 18 | 41 | 179 |
21 | ITA 149 | CAMAY | Lauro Bonora | 21 | 18 | 13 | 30 | 6 | 58/DNF | 33 | 4 | 52 | 18 | 195 |
22 | ITA 107 | Leviathan | Davide Albertini Petroni | 43 | 12 | 23 | 11 | 24 | 12 | 23 | 47 | 38 | 14 | 200 |
23 | ITA 189 | Sailing Lab | Andrea Bruschi | 46 | 19 | 15 | 42 | 25 | 29 | 24 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 201 |
24 | ITA 027 | Chimera (Corinthian) | Marco Gambardella | 10 | 34 | 6 | 45 | 42 | 33 | 11 | 9 | 57 | 13 | 203 |
25 | RUS 7 | ANYWAYANYDAY | Kirill Podolsky | 42 | 26 | 19 | 29 | 33 | 26 | 17 | 7 | 27 | 27 | 211 |
26 | ITA 205 | 3menda | Federico Albano | 4 | 15 | 32 | 19 | 58/DSQ | 21 | 41 | 10 | 31 | 49 | 222 |
27 | RUS 047 | Kotyara | Oleg Evdokimenko | 2 | 3 | 28 | 8 | 35 | 44 | 36 | 28 | 46 | 39 | 223 |
28 | ITA 199 | Rush Diletta PRIMED | Mauro Mocchegiani | 34 | 30 | 34 | 43 | 20 | 19 | 12 | 33 | 33 | 8 | 223 |
29 | ITA 192 | Mezza Luna | Marco Franchini | 19 | 41 | 51 | 36 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 36 | 35 | 19 | 225 |
30 | ITA 154 | Spirit of Nerina | Mirko Bargolini / Francesco Scarselli | 28/RDG | 28/RDG | 28/RDG | 17 | 43 | 25 | 3 | 48 | 53 | 10 | 230 |
31 | MON 81 | Customly | Corrado Agusta | 32 | 29 | 46 | 37 | 19 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 23 | 51 | 232 |
32 | MON 104 | Money Time | Philippe Pizzichini | 14 | 49 | 26 | 48 | 45 | 27 | 29 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 232 |
33 | USA 231 | Blind Squirrel (Corinthian) | John Brown | 29 | 42 | 52 | 28 | 38 | 30 | 35 | 5 | 9 | 30 | 246 |
34 | DEN 150 | upupup | Bo Boje Pedersen | 28 | 37 | 12 | 5 | 58/SCP | 32 | 44 | 26 | 37 | 28 | 249 |
35 | RUS 262 | Fly or die | Denis Lankin | 23 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 34 | 31 | 19 | 45 | 40 | 36 | 253 |
36 | ITA 136 | Raffica | Pasquale Orofino | 49 | 27 | 25 | 27 | 15 | 40 | 49 | 24 | 10 | 58/OCS | 266 |
37 | RUS 44 | Ottobre Rosso | Artem Kuznetsov | 37 | 31 | 38 | 26 | 37 | 38 | 50 | 31 | 13 | 34 | 285 |
38 | CAN 222 | Wild Deuces (Corinthian) | Paul Currie | 52 | 47 | 39 | 31 | 36 | 41 | 20 | 16 | 34 | 23 | 287 |
39 | MON 713 | Synergy | Valentine Zavadnikov | 15 | 44 | 47 | 46 | 18 | 23 | 28 | 46 | 49 | 24 | 291 |
40 | GER 204 | Maroi (Corinthian) | Jan Kowalski | 31 | 38 | 11 | 53 | 21 | 24 | 38 | 51 | 54 | 37 | 304 |
41 | GER 135 | Fantastichina | Fritz Homann | 35 | 52 | 29 | 34 | 51 | 39 | 34 | 22 | 22 | 48 | 314 |
42 | CAN 170 | Batteries 4 Bacio | Rhonda Joyce | 38 | 43 | 40 | 39 | 22 | 34 | 51 | 39 | 26 | 38 | 319 |
43 | RUS 156 | RUS 156 QUANTUM | Marina Chubkina | 33 | 14 | 37 | 50 | 48 | 46 | 53 | 42 | 39 | 22 | 331 |
44 | RUS 25 | Versya | Anatoly Karachinskiy | 50 | 23 | 44 | 55 | 46 | 42 | 45 | 34 | 42 | 9 | 335 |
45 | ITA 125 | T2R | Tommaso Pavan | 58/SCP | 46 | 35 | 22 | 58/DNF | 45 | 25 | 25 | 28 | 52 | 336 |
46 | RUS 265 | Russotrans | Yuriy Morozov | 1 | 36 | 43 | 38 | 58/DSQ | 58/DNF | 55 | 54 | 20 | 33 | 338 |
47 | RUS 002 | Pirogovo Sailing | Alexandr Ezhkov | 47 | 39 | 48 | 25 | 26 | 37 | 39 | 43 | 36 | 58/DNF | 340 |
48 | JPN 233 | Sokokumaru | Sumio Shimoyama | 40 | 48 | 33 | 52 | 39 | 35 | 46 | 32 | 45 | 32 | 350 |
49 | GER 164 | Hellcat (Corinthian) | Juergen Fuchs | 30 | 45 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 52 | 40 | 50 | 48 | 29 | 370 |
50 | ITA 158 | Tomahawk | Stefano Santucci | 48 | 35 | 53 | 51 | 47/RDG | 47/RDG | 43 | 40 | 56 | 40 | 404 |
51 | ITA 181 | Hanneken (Corinthian) | Simone Anichini | 56 | 40 | 41 | 41 | 47 | 53 | 42 | 55 | 41 | 53 | 413 |
52 | RUS 36 | Anna | Vladimir Silkin | 53 | 54 | 45 | 40 | 40 | 48 | 52 | 52 | 47 | 44 | 421 |
53 | SUI 206 | Cold Duck | August Schram | 54 | 55 | 50 | 54 | 52 | 49 | 30 | 44 | 43 | 46 | 422 |
54 | AUT 159 | N.N. | Klaus Schober | 41 | 53 | 42 | 49 | 50 | 47 | 48 | 53 | 50 | 54 | 433 |
55 | ITA 137 | Tachicardia (Corinthian) | Michele Dandolo | 55 | 50 | 49 | 58/DNF | 41 | 51 | 47 | 57 | 44 | 50 | 444 |
56 | ITA 220 | Turnover | Renato Vallivero | 51 | 51 | 54 | 47 | 58/DNF | 50 | 56 | 38 | 51 | 47 | 445 |
57 | JPN 277 | Contious | Norikatsu Aizawa | 39 | 56 | 55 | 56 | 49 | 54 | 54 | 56 | 55 | 58/OCS | 474 |
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