AEZ RC44 Sailing Team with second fleet race victory

The AEZ RC44 Sailing Team, on FSE Robline, wins its second fleet race and is on 3rd place on its home regatta in Gmunden, Austria. This is the greatest success of Rene Mangold und Co. within the Championship-Tour.

Keen to please the home crowd, René Mangold’s AEZ RC44 Team was first out on to the water as spectator craft swarmed around the Austrian boat with her alloy car wheel manufacturer sponsor. Clearly this time on the water helped the home team. They pulled into the lead up the first beat and despite many opportunities to lose it, clung on to take their second win of the event much to the delight of local fans.

“It’s a really good feeling – we’re so satisfied,” Mangold said. “Our project started when the first event started here. It’s great to have all the other teams here, but it is more important for us to have a home team and with this success – leading on the first day, then a crash on the second and then to win the last race – it’s a great moment. In the five years we have been here, three times we have been last, one year we were second from last and now we are on the podium! It’s really good.”

Next up for the RC44s, over 18-22 July, is the event in Marstrand, Sweden.