– Nov 8th 2021
Takashi Okura’s TP52 Sled team were crowned 2021’s 52 SUPER SERIES champions and Rolex TP52 World Champions Saturday in Palma, Mallorca. They join Azzurra and Quantum Racing as only the third crew to have won the circuit’s top honours.
Theirs is a popular victory for a hugely experience team which represents the New York Yacht Club but which is a potent, truly multicultural mix including veteran America’s Cup winning New Zealanders such as Don Cowie, mainsheet trimmer and project manager, five times America’s Cup winner Murray Jones as helmsman and NZ’s youthful Finn Olympic ace and more recent Cup winner Josh Junior.
Sled have been on the 52 SUPER SERIES since joining in January 2014 and finished on regatta podiums eight times. They proved a class apart at 2019’s season-ending Porto Cervo event where Mr Okura helmed to victory and now finally break the Botin-designed Azzurra-Quantum Racing duopoly, which has reigned for eight full years on the world’s top grand prix monohull circuit which next year will celebrate its ten years anniversary
BP316 Quantum Racing finished a very close second, Doug DeVos being awarded the top owner-driver championships title.
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