Giles Scott extended his lead on the penultimate day of the 2019 Finn Australian Championship being hosted by the Black Rock YC.
Scott took the first race (R7) of the day ahead of Australia’s Jake Lilly with Holland’s Pieter Postma in third place and Ed Wright fourth. Nicholas Heiner of Holland was called over at the start.
In the second race Wright (image above) took the gun with Postma second and Heiner third. Scott finished fourth and with his consistant low scoring is able to discard that result.
Overall Scott now leads by seven points from Heiner with Wright moving into third place where he is tied on 34 points with Jake Lilley.
Two more races are scheduled for the final day.
Finn Australian Championship – Leaders after 8 races (40 entries)
1st GBR41 Giles Scott 1 [4.0] – – 12 pts
2nd NED89 Nicholas Heiner [41.0] 3 – – 19 pts
3rd GBR11 Ed Wright 4 1 – – 34 pts
4th AUS1 Jake Lilley 2 6 – – 34 pts
5th AUS261 Oliver Twedell 5 7 – – 40 pts
6th GBR71 Henry Wetherell 6 5 – – 42 pts
7th NED842 PieterJan Postma 3 2 – – 43 pts
8th NZL1 Andrew Maloney [41.0] 41 – – 64 pts
9th CHN1 He Chen 9 11 – – 70 pts
10th AUS32 Jock Calvert 7 9 – – 71 pts
11th AUS41 Lewis Brake 11 8 – – 77 pts
12th AUS91 Lachlan Gilham 10 10 – – 79 pts
13th NZL2 Josh Junior [41.0] 41 – – 81 pts
14th BER9 Rockal Evans 13 13 – – 91 pts
15th CHN3 Xir Li 8 16 – – 92 pts
16th AUS75 Phil Chadwick 15 14 – – 108 pts
17th AUS4 Harmon McAullay 14 18 – – 113 pts
18th AUS10 John Condie 12 19 – – 128 pts
19th AUS61 Mark Jackson 17 17 – – 131 pts
20th JPN6 Hajime Kokumai 16 12 – – 133 pts
