iShares Circuit 2009 - Hyeres - 3.-5.Juli 2009 www.isharescup.com - Überrsicht Visit omansail.com http://www.omansail.com 5 July 2009 Mixed Fortunes But Strong Results For Oman Sail It was an interesting day for all the teams on the water today in the shifting condition in Hyeres, and no more so than for the two Oman Sail teams. Overnight leaders Masirah started their day by recording their worst result of the series thus far but Renaissance, in contrast, scored their best. The sixth place for Masirah and second for Renaissance put them both at the top of the leader board but it was to be the last race of the day for Loick Peyron and his team as Mike Golding on Ecover put paid to his day. Golding misjudged a port - starboard crossing and took one of Renaissance's rudders out of action; it took some skillful boat handling by Peyron to record the second place that they did. It was bitterly disappointing for him and his crew to see all their hard work lost due to no fault of their own.  Omani fifth man for the day Mubarak Al Battashi explained, 'We knew that Ecover was going to hit us and all we could do was watch- everything happens so quickly on these boats. Loick did an amazing job of getting us to the finish line in second place. It is unfortunate that our day will be settled by a sailing jury in a room and not by us on the water. We look forward to tomorrow!' Masirah didn't have to win the penultimate race to take th em through to the next day as leaders but they gave the watching crowds a great show as they powered down with third placed Holmatro only to lose by 10 feet from them on the line. With 12 knots of breeze blowing, the Extreme 40's had hulls flying which only made the battle for second place between BMW Oracle and Gitana Extreme-Groupe LCF Rothschild all the more exciting. BMW Oracle managed to take a well-needed first place but Gitana held on and took second place. Holmatro showed great form in the last few races and will see them go into Sunday's final races as potential podium placers. Renaissance spent some time in the protest room but as it was an obvious error on the part of Ecover, they were awarded average points based on their results the day before. Fortunately they didn't have a result worse than fifth throughout the day which gave them a well needed boost going into the last day.. Final positions for the day have Masirah in the lead with 110 points, Renaissance in second with 100 points and BMW Oracle take the final podium place of the day with 97 points. The chasing pack are: 4. Gitana Extreme-Groupe LCF Rothschild, 5. Groupama - 85 points, 6. BT - 77 points 7. Holmatro - 63 points, 8.  iShares - 62 points, 9. Luna - 39 points 10. Ecover - 33 points Renaissance Services SAOG Founding Member of the Oman Sail Academy Business Club Suhail Bahwan Group For further information, visit http://www.omansail.com To download all images and videos, please go to the Oman Sail online Media Zone: http://media.omansail.com You need to fill out the online accreditation form online to access these images that you can do by going to this link. Ingmar Jense International Media Manager Mobile Number: +968 9921 2236 Email: ingmar@omansail.com mailto:ingmar@omansail.com Copyright © 1996-2016 - SEGEL.DE