Last race cancelled

German team Hunger/Jess conquers world title

The last race of the Quebramar - 505 World Championship was cancelled, due to the instable weather conditions registered in the bay of Cascais, and the germans Wolfgang Hunger and Holger Jess are the new world champions.

As todays race was cancelled, the classification maintained the same as yesterday and Wolfgang Hunger and Holger Jess became the first german team to win this title. Their worst result in the championship was as tenth place (discarded) in the second race and they got one victory, two second places, one third, one fifth and one ninth.

In the second place of the podium, with ten more points than the champions, came the britsh team Ian Pinnell / Tim Hancock, followed by the swedes Krister Bergstrom and Thomas Moss, with more 11 points.

MySkipper.com spoke with Ali Meller, president of the International 505 Class Association, that admited he was «disapointed by the fact that the last race was cancelled » but, in the overall, he is happy with the event: «we had a championship with very instable wind conditions were Wolfgang Hunger and Holger Jess was stronger then the other top teams and the only ones to maintain consistency throughtout the event. I think that, once again, we have find a new worthy world champion».

Aires Afonseca