Jubilant Luna Rossa crowned Extreme Sailing Series 2011 Champions

The Italian team Luna Rossa has won the final Act of 2011 in emphatic style and crowned the Overall Champions of the Extreme Sailing Series™ 2011. Max Sirena, Paul Campbell-James, Alister Richardson and Manuel Modena, who have raced together on the Extreme 40 all season, hardly put a foot wrong over the 35 races here in Singapore.

11 months of extreme competition
Despite 6 different Act winners during the year, coming into the final Act, only the French and Italian teams could win the overall title. Groupe Edmond de Rothschild took victory at the first Act in Muscat, Oman whilst Max Sirena’s team shone at Act 2 in Qingdao, China. And whilst Pennec’s men had a ‘home’ victory in Act 7 in Nice, France it was Luna Rossa who had a 1-point advantage over the French coming into the final round. After 11 months, 9 venues and 301 races, Luna Rossa finally got to lift the Extreme Sailing Series trophy.




301 races spanning three continents
The fifth season of the Extreme Sailing Series™ comes to a close in Singapore after 301 races staged across the nine global venues spanning three continents that started in Muscat, Oman in February. This game-changing professional sailing circuit has attracted 287,000 on site spectators with its unique blend of ‘stadium’ short-course racing, including all the various disciplines and courses used already from fleet racing to match racing and straight line duels, whilst maintaining its hivel of competition which was borne out by producing 6 different winners from the nine events, all of which, bar one, were only decided in the final race on the final day.

Source: extremesailingseries.com