Bundock and Ashby still fourth - Tornado Europeans
Billy Besson and Arnaud Jarlegan of France have taken the lead from countrymen Guichard and Guyader. And all four French crews are now in the Top 10.
'Bundock and Ashby - Tornado Europeans 08 ?'
The first race of the day started in 8-10 knots with the fleet just double trapezing out of the start. It was the boats that came off the pin end of the starting line and getting the furthest into the left-hand corner that triumphed at the first mark. Revil/Espagnon (FRA) lead at the first mark ahead of the Greeks Pashalidis/Trigonis and Besson/Jarlegan (FRA).
Rounding the bottom mark the French opted for the right hand mark leaving the way open for the Greeks to work the left and steal the lead. Once the Greeks got a taste of the lead and added their local knowledge they were unchallenged for a 1st place finish. Revil/Espagnon slipped to fifth allowing Lange/Espinola (ARG) and Besson/Jarlegan (FRA) to take second and third place, respectively. 
The Greek crew Trigonis commented 'very tricky day, you had to be very patient and wait for the right time to make your move. We struck on the second upwind when the French (Revil) gave us the opportunity by rounding the bottom gate and heading right, we were watching the left all day'
The second race of the day saw the breeze had build to 12 knots by the start. The race was won and lost on the start line with the fleet eager to head hard left.
It was Bundock/Ashby (AUS) that blasted out of the pin end of the start line, just to windward of a congested pack of pin-end boats. Bundock/Ashby lead by 150m at the first mark and extended throughout the race.
Once again it was Besson/Jarlegan showing their consistency taking second as the breeze built to 15 knots from the Mittelmeier brothers (GER).
With a spare day tomorrow and one drop race coming into effect the provisional results are as follows:
1 FRA 5 BESSON, Billy JARLEGAN, Arnaud 10 3 2 3 3 2 13pts
2 FRA 71 GUICHARD, Yann GUYADER, Alex 1 1 5 2 12 5 15
3 GRE 7 PASHALIDIS, Iordanis TRIGONIS, Kostas 6 4 3 6 1 3 19
4 AUS 8 BUNDOCK, Darren ASHBY, Glenn 4 2 7 7 7 7 21
5 FRA 11 MORVAN, Francois VANDAME, Mathieu 3 7 12 5 4 12 29
6 GBR 4 MCMILLAN, Leigh HOWDEN, Will 7 5 8 1 11 8 32
7 FRA 1 REVIL, Xavier ESPAGNON, Christophe 8 12 1 11 5 1 37
8 ARG 1 LANGE, Santiago ESPINOLA, Carlos 9 8 11 8 2 11 38
9 GER 7 POLGAR, Johannes SPALTEHOLZ, Florian 11 11 4 10 14 4 40
10 AUT 3 HAGARA, Roman STEINACHER, Hans Peter 5 6 9 12 13 9 40
11 AUT 8 ZAJAC, Thomas CZAJKA, Thomas 13 9 15 4 8 15 41
12 ITA 257 MARCOLINI, Francesco BIANCHI, Eduardo 2 10 6 DNF 15 6 42
13 GER 5 MITTELMEIER, Tino MITTELMEIER, Niko 12 13 10 13 10 10 48
14 GRE 41 MOURIKIS, Kostas GIRIS, Kostas 15 16 16 15 6 16 67
15 GRE 1 KOSMOGLOU, Efstratios THEODORAKIS, Dimitrios 14 15 DNF 9 16 23 70
16 UKR 11 KALYNCHEV, Pavlo SHAFRANYUK, Andriy DNF DNC 13 14 9 13 72
17 GRE 9 MAVROS, Nikos PARIANOS, Polis 16 14 17 16 19 17 80
18 ITA 259 SAPONARA, Michele MISSO, Marco 17 17 14 17 18 14 83
19 GER 1049 BETZ, Markus HOLZSCHUH, Stephanie 19 20 19 19 17 19 93
20 ITA 25 SCLAVI, Lorenzo REGGIO, Paolo 18 19 18 18 20 18 93
21 GRE 77 PAPADOPOULOS, Mihalis PAVLIDIS, Raphael 20 18 20 20 DNC 20 101
22 GRE 17 GIACHOUDIS, Sotiris VEZIROGLOU, Dimitris 21 21 DNF DNF 21 23 109
by mpg 
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