Iordanis Paschalidis and Konstantinos Trigonis increase their lead after two more races at the F18 World Championship Sarasota, USA.
While Paschalidis and Trigonis GRE stretched their overall lead to eight points ahead of Brett Burvill and Max Puttman of Australia, Mitch and Ruben Booth ESP picked-up another race win to move into fourth overall, three points off third placed Michael Easton and Tripp Burd of the USA.
Mitch and Ruben Booth won the day’s opening race with second Cruz Gonzalez Smith and Mariano Heuser ARG, and third Easton and Burd. Paschalidis and Trigonis took fifth place behind Burvill and Puttman.
In the second race, R6, Paschalidis and Trigonis claimed their third win of the championship, with second Aussie pair James Clark and Brett Goodall, and third Mark Brunsvold and Matthew King of the USA.
There were a considerable number of DNF in the second race, including Ghislain and Regis Melaine from the Whitstable Yacht Club (GBR) who are now in 58th place.
2018 F18 World Championship after 6 races (81 entries)
1st GRE 7 Iordanis Paschalidis 2 5 1 1 5 1 – – 10 pts
2nd AUS 526 Brett Burvill 1 2 5 6 4 17 – – 18 pts
3rd USA 11 Michael Easton 10 9 3 2 3 9 – – 26 pts
4th ESP 1 Mitch Booth 8 1 6 13 1 29 – – 29 pts
5th NED 77 Hans Van Dam 3 3 15 4 7 23 – – 32 pts
6th FRA 901 Emmanuel Boulogne 14 6 1/RDG 10/RDG 10 8 – – 34.5 pts
7th USA 850 Taylor Reiss 25 8 2 8 6 11 – – 35 pts
8th ARG 7 Pablo Völker 9 4 18 11 14 6 – – 44T pts
9th USA 17 Pete Melvin 7 12 13 10 11 4 – – 44T pts
10th AUS 333 James Clark 19 10 14 14 12 2 – – 52 pts
11th ARG 11 Cruz Gonzalez Smith 30 7 10 7 2 27 – – 53 pts
12th USA 1899 Charles Tomeo 15 21 12 5 15 13 – – 60 pts
13th ARG 66 Agustin Krevisky 36 14 4 27 9 7 – – 61 pts
14th USA 2002 Mark Brunsvold 6 11 17 25 35 3 – – 62T pts
15th USA 225 Robbie Daniel 17 79 7 3 23 12 – – 62T pts
16th ARG 6 Hernan Salerno 16 17 8 12 13 35 – – 66 pts
17th USA 37 Luke Ramsay 26 24 11 19 8 5 – – 67 pts
18th USA 8 John Tomko 28 20 22 16 16 10 – – 84 pts
19th AUS 11 Lucy Nissen 11 16 33 18 22 30 – – 97 pts
20th HUN 76 Zoltan Dioszegi 4 26 26 24 34 19 – – 99 pts
21st NED 007 Mischa Heemskerk 13 13 19 31 32 51 – – 108 pts
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