Team Racing Team Racing Captain on 03 Mar 2009 11:12 am
Newcastle first University team at Nottingham Snakebite
Nottingham Snakebite report
Newcastle 1sts this weekend travelled to Nottingham for the amazing Nottingham Snakebite. After a messy night in Ocean on Friday night Saturday was the perfect day for team racing.
Newcastle suffered slightly from hangovers on Saturday that definitely hindered performance. Two early losses out of five in the early stages of the round robins in the leagues led to us being positioned in the Silver Fleet at lunch time on Saturday.
Fortunately Newcastle found their form and went on to win every race for the rest of the day. After a night in Dogma dressed as Where’s Wally Sunday morning saw the continuation of the Gold, Silver, Bronze League and Newcastle sustained their race domination to win the Silver Fleet without having lost a race.
Quarter Finals were run on Sunday afternoon incorporating the top four teams from the Gold Fleet, top three from the Silver and top team from the Bronze fleet. This allowed Newcastle another chance to reach the finals, racing Warwick 1st team. After winning the one-race quarter final Newcastle were against Bristol in the semi finals, sailed as best of three.
The three races were not needed as Newcastle won the first two, positioning them in the finals against West Kirby Youth Team. West Kirby took the first race convincingly but Newcastle fought back to win race two. Race three was extremely close with the event open to being taken at every mark. Unfortunately West Kirby sailed through to win the race and the event.
Newcastle therefore finished second out of the 18 teams racing and first University team. This is a fantastic result that shows the benefits of a season’s hard training and commitment and the advantages of the new fireflies we are now able to train in. We are now looking very positively towards the BUSA Team Racing Finals 15th-17th April.