First day of three days of final racing and Tom Slingsby extended his lead of the 2021 International Moth Worlds.
Slingsby, counting eight race wins, now has eight points overall and leads by 11 points from Iain Jensen (7,-10,3) with Kyle Langsford (1,-18,7) in third place, just one point ahead of Nathan Outteridge in fourth – all are Australian!
Britain’s Paul Goodison, who only completed one of the three races on Sunday, received redress (9, 9) and was reinstated in fifth place overall.
Francesco Bianchi of Italy was disqualified from race seven. He did not compete in race eight and retired in race nine, finishing the day in 33rd overall.
Other leading Brits are: 10th Dave Hivey and first corinthian, 13th Dylan Fletcher, and Eddie Bridleback in 21st place.
The silver fleet only completed two races. First is Frederik Just Melson of Denmark, second Luka Dogan from Croatia and third David Smithwhite of Britain.
Final series racing continues for the gold and silver fleets on Monday and Tuesday.
2021 Redoro Frantoi Veneti Moth World Championship – Gold fleet after 9 races and Protests (137 entries)
1st AUS 1 Tom SLINGSBY 1 1 1 1 1 1 -2 1 1 – – 8 pts
2nd AUS 4739 Iain JENSEN 1 1 1 4 1 1 7 -10 3 – – 19 pts
3rd AUS 2 Kyle LANGFORD 2 2 9 2 4 2 1 -18 7 – – 29 pts
4th AUS 4629 Nathan OUTTERIDGE -9 3 2 3 5 4 6 5 2 – – 30 pts
5th GBR 4823 Paul GOODISON 2 3 3 1 2 2 -9 9 9 – – 31 pts
6th ITA 4725 Ruggi TITA 8 2 2 3 6 -13 4 2 8 – – 35 pts
7th NZL 4740 Phil ROBERTSON 4 6 6 6 3 6 -14 3 4 – – 38 pts
8th ITA 4689 Simone SALVÀ 5 4 8 2 8 3 -13 4 10 – – 44 pts
9th ITA 5 Francesco BRUNI 5 8 4 -18 3 8 3 11 5 – – 47 pts
10th GBR 4817 David HIVEY 4 6 5 6 7 9 10 9 -30 – – 56 pts
11th FRA 4775 Aymeric ARTHAUD 3 14 3 4 2 8 11 14 -28 – – 59 pts
12th HKG 4805 Nicolai JACOBSEN 7 8 7 13 9 11 -28 8 6 – – 69 pts
13th GBR 4853 Dylan FLETCHER 6 5 5 RET 7 10 17 6 20 – – 76 pts
14th USA 6 Bradley FUNK 11 7 10 7 9 4 18 13 -22 – – 79 pts
15th ITA 4588 Jacopo MARZOTTO 9 12 8 8 10 6 22 -35 9 – – 84 pts
16th GER 4763 Philipp BUHL 18 7 6 10 12 5 15 12 -21 – – 85 pts
17th AUS 9 Thomas JOHNSON -35 10 7 10 14 20 8 7 13 – – 89 pts
18th USA 4768 Richard DIDHAM 20 12 15 5 5 7 16 24 -43 – – 104 pts
19th ITA 4724 Gian Maria FERRIGHI 8 17 4 19 15 5 5 -44 33 – – 106 pts
20th AUS 4718 David GILMOUR 12 13 11 15 13 16 20 -31 11 – – 111 pts
21st GBR 4826 Eddie BRIDLE 3 11 11 11 16 DPI -30 15 23 – – 112 pts
22nd NZL 4744 Mike BULLOT 7 18 16 9 12 12 21 -22 19 – – 114 pts
23rd ITA 4641 Fabio FUMAGALLI 14 15 13 17 16 14 -23 17 12 – – 118 pts
24th GBR 4546 Alex ADAMS 19 10 13 13 18 17 -32 20 18 – – 128 pts
25th GER 4665 Maximilian MÄGE 13 15 23 12 26 18 -61 19 16 – – 142 pts