| Wright, “We had a pretty good day, but a very difficult day. Not much wind, it was very patchy out there and that was kind of the main thing. My objective was just to stay in the pressure, and it seemed to be all right in the end, as I won the first race and just hung on in the second race. Hopefully we will get some wind for the rest of the week.”
On the size and depth of the fleet, “It’s really impressive and everyone is going fast, and unfortunately everyone is going high, so it’s very difficult to compete against these guys.”
“It was going to be offshore, so would have been quite shifty and tactical as well. Unfortunately we had the light day to maybe we’ll get it tomorrow.”
Salminen, ended the day in eighth overall, “Tricky first race when I couldn’t get enough right to make the raincloud, but fought my way back from that. The second race, I had a good start in the middle and pretty much led all the way round from there.”
On the sailing conditions, “A lot of this is technique in this big swell, that we had from the windy days before, which I have gotten good at after so much time in Rio. I think that is paying back now.”
Like Wright, he spent much of the winter training and competing in Australia. “The training in Australia was really good. With this championship being earlier than usual, I wanted to keep my racing brains switched off over the winter, so that’s why I did Miami as well, but I don’t now if I have succeeded 100 per cent, but it’s better than most years.”
On the windy days forecast, “That’s what we’ve had leading up to this regatta and I feel really good, so I am looking forward to test myself.”
On the quality fleet, “Many very good sailors have come back from the America’s Cup teams, so we are almost a full house here, with a lot of non-Europeans as well, so for sure the fleet is really, really good.” |
