Bundock and Ashby fourth - Day 2 Tornado Europeans

'Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby' Richard Gladwell Click Here to view large photo

Day 2 of the 2008 Tornado European Championships/Mats Nyberg Trophy saw the French teams shine.

Besson/Jarlegan (FRA) lead for most of both races today; however due to the tricky conditions they were unable to hold on for the win in either race. Even so, they finished the day with a 2,3 to rocket up the score sheet into second position behind fellow French team of Guichard/Guyader (FRA) who have extended their overall lead.

The day began with a little haze and some mist over the race course and no wind. The strong Greek sun soon burnt off the haze and a light sea breeze filled in across the bay and gave the Tornado fleet six-eight knots for the first race.

It was the French team of Revil/Espagnon that won the first race overcoming fellow country men Besson/Jarlegan on the final downwind to take victory. It was a race about who got to the pressure first and on the left hand layline was where it was all happening in the first race.

The leaders at the first mark all came from the far left-hand side of the course, unfortunately this dictated the proceedings for the rest of the race and made passing difficult.

In the second race of the day, Besson/Jarlegan (FRA) were again in the running to win the race after leading for two laps.

They were being chased hard by the local Greek Olympic team of Pashalidis/Trigonis (GRE) and Bundock/Ashby (AUS) until the final upwind beat when the British stormed from fifth to first, coming out of the right hand side of the course to snatch the lead.

Guichard/Guyader (FRA) were even further on the right hand side and they jumped from eighth to second.

So far Guichard/Guyader seem to be able to do no wrong and extend there overall lead to nine points after four races.

'Another tough day, with some big breeze lines causing big shifts if you missed one gain you could lose five or six places instantly. Our last beat was about as perfect as they come taking us from fifth to first. It just shows there are big gains to be made and big losses!! The forecast is similar for tomorrow, so we expect the same tricky conditions' commented Will Howden (GBR).

PROVISIONAL RESULTS

POS	SAIL #	HELM	CREW	R1	R2	R3	R4	PTS
1	FRA 71	GUICHARD, Yann	GUYADER, Alex	1	1	5	2	9
2	FRA 5	BESSON, Billy	JARLEGAN, Arnaud	10	3	2	3	18
3	GRE 7	PASHALIDIS, Iordanis	TRIGONIS, Kostas	6	4	3	6	19
4	AUS 8	BUNDOCK, Darren	ASHBY, Glenn	4	2	7	7	20
5	GBR 4	MCMILLAN, Leigh	HOWDEN, Will	7	5	8	1	21
6	FRA 11	MORVAN, Francois	VANDAME, Mathieu	3	7	12	5	27
7	FRA 1	REVIL, Xavier	ESPAGNON, Christophe	8	12	1	11	32
8	AUT 3	HAGARA, Roman	STEINACHER, Hans Peter	5	6	9	12	32
9	GER 7	POLGAR, Johannes	SPALTEHOLZ, Florian	11	11	4	10	36
10	ARG 1	LANGE, Santiago	ESPINOLA, Carlos	9	8	11	8	36
11	ITA 257	MARCOLINI, Francesco	BIANCHI, Eduardo	2	10	6	DNF	41
12	AUT 8	ZAJAC, Thomas	CZAJKA, Thomas	13	9	15	4	41
13	GER 5	MITTELMEIER, Tino	MITTELMEIER, Niko	12	13	10	13	48
14	GRE 1	KOSMOGLOU, Efstratios	THEODORAKIS, Dimitrios	14	15	DNF	9	61
15	GRE 41	MOURIKIS, Kostas	GIRIS, Kostas	15	16	16	15	62
16	GRE 9	MAVROS, Nikos	PARIANOS, Polis	16	14	17	16	63
17	ITA 259	SAPONARA, Michele	MISSO, Marco	17	17	14	17	65
18	UKR 11	KALYNCHEV, Pavlo	SHAFRANYUK, Andriy	DNF	DNC	13	14	73
19	ITA 25	SCLAVI, Lorenzo	REGGIO, Paolo	18	19	18	18	73
20	GER 1049	BETZ, Markus	HOLZSCHUH, Stephanie	19	20	19	19	77
21	GRE 77	PAPADOPOULOS, Mihalis	PAVLIDIS, Raphael	20	18	20	20	78
22	GRE 17	GIACHOUDIS, Sotiris	VEZIROGLOU, Dimitris	21	21	DNF	DNF	88