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Match Racing - Volvo Lake Constance Regatta Overall


Author: John Roberson

BERTRAND PACE OF FRANCE WINS A VOLVO AT LAKE CONSTANCE

French America's Cup skipper Bertrand Pace has regained the lead in the
Swedish Match Grand Prix Tour, after winning the Lake Constance Match
Racing Regatta, at Lanenargen, Germany. It was an all French final on Lake
Constance, with Pace, matched against Luc Pillot, taking the series by
three races to one, to collect a Volvo V 40 car.

Bertrand Pace becomes the first skipper to win two events on the Swedish
Match Tour this year, having also won the opening regatta, the
Steinlager/Line 7 event in Auckland. He and his team are the most
consistent on the Tour, having been in the top four at every event,
finishing fourth at the Sun Microsystems Australia Cup and the ACI Cup in
Croatia.

At the half way stage of the Tour, with four of the eight events sailed, he
has a six point lead over the America's Cup holders, Team New Zealand,
skippered at this event by Hamish Pepper. Pace was at the top of the
scoreboard after the first two regattas, but was deposed when Team New
Zealand won the ACI Cup.

Pace won the first two races of the final series, in a steady 6 to 8 knot
breeze, then in a dying wind Pillot pulled back one point, before Pace
finished the series by winning a close and tense fourth encounter. In the
opening race Pillot was over the starting line early, and in the second he
got a penalty in the pre-start, Pace won the start of the third race, but
chose the wrong side of the course.

The fourth and last race was close all the way, with Pace having an early
lead, but Pillot overtaking him at one stage on the second leg of the
course, before being out sailed by Pace. Talking about his win, Pace said
modestly, "we had some opportunities and some luck, because the wind was
very tricky.

"We were happy to win the semi-final, and in the final for sure the wind
was unpredicatable, and we tried to read the course and the wind shifts,
sometimes we read it correctly, and sometime badly."

Second place in this event, lifts Luc Pillot onto the Swedish Match Tour
scoreboard for the first time, putting him in fourth place, behind
Australia's Peter Gilmour. Also entering the Tour prize money ranks is
Denmark's Jesper Radich Johansen, who finished third in this regatta, and
is in equal eighth place.

The top eight skippers on the scoreboard at the end of the Tour share
US$150,000 in prize money, on top of the prize money at the individual
events.

The next event on the Tour is the Swedish Match Cup in Marstrand, Sweden,
3rd - 9th July.

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  • www.sports.com/sailing
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