Nokia Oops Cup Race 11 - St.Petersburg Offshore Race

Peyron celebrated the victory with another victory

Team Stena Sovcomflot has been nearly unbeatable in this year’s edition of Nokia Oops Cup. Thursday they won the last regatta in the series by finishing first in to St. Petersburg. Team Academy, which won last year, where 50 minutes after the Russian-Swedish boat over the line.

The multihull legend Bruno Peyron, co-skipper and boatowner Steve Ravussin and Roger Nilson, the navigator, was way ahead of the other five competitors during Nokia Oops Cup 2005. In the St. Petersburg offshore race they had to endure light winds and high temperatures, but they still finished first in to the Russian city.

- It was a light wind race, but we finished much earlier than thought. We won this race and the Nokia Oops cup on experience, better technique and just the right amount of luck, says Roger Nilson, navigator on Stena Sovcomflot.

Academy, with Norwegian Knut Frostad as skipper, came second in the last race, and also on the overall standing. HiQ, the Swedish boat with HiQ at the helm that took bronze overall, had to retire from St. Petersburg Offshore Race due to the rudder damage they got in Sopot City Race. Bonduelle also pulled out off the offshore race.

Nokia Oops Cup started in Helsinki on May 21 and since then the six highly competitive trimarans and crew have covered over 3500 nautical miles and been to all the major cities and competed inn all the big races in the Nordic and Baltic water.

- We are very pleased because both the competition and the public interest for Nokia Oops Cup have been even greater this year. It is very satisfying that more and more people get a taste for this sport, says Richard Brisius in Atlant Ocean Racing, the company behind Nokia Oops Cup.

St.Petersburg Offshore Race Results:

1) Stena Sovcomflot, Sweden/Russia, Bruno Peyron, 0.5pts
2) Academy, Norway, Knut Frostad, 1pts
3) TietoEnator, Finland, Thomas Johanson, 1.5pts
4) Nokia, Sweden, Magnus Olsson, 2pts
6) Bonduelle, Poland, Gotek Zibi, 3.5pts
6) HiQ, Sweden, Klas Nylöf, 3.5pts

Nokia Oops Cup after 11 of 11 races:

1) Stena Sovcomflot 15.5pts
2) Academy 24pts
3) HiQ 32pts
4) TietoEnator 42pts
5) Nokia 44.5pts
6) Bonduelle 55pts