iShares Cup Cowes Day 1: “Like being in a pinball machine!”

02 August 2008
The America’s Cup teams stole the show on the first day of the iShares Cup, but with mixed fortunes in a full-on day at Skandia Cowes Week.

Franck Cammas, the offshore multihull specialist, got things off to a flying start by winning his very first iShares Cup race from America’s Cup defenders Alinghi after he got a great lift up the first mark, and took a lead which he held all the way around.

Cammas followed up to make it a double victory in race two, followed home by his BMW ORACLE Racing team mate James Spithill. Current series leaders TEAMORIGIN were right on the pace in the first race, but had a slow top mark rounding in the second, recovering well to take fifth.