Mirsky Racing Team progress to Quarter Finals at Korea Match Cup

1:51 AM Sat 6 Jun 2009 GMT

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Mirsky Racing Team progress to the quarter finals of the Korea Match Cup in a long action packed day filled with penalties and crashes.

With six races left to race in the round robin Mirsky Racing Team hit the water this morning knowing that a quarter finals berth was well in reach.

In a few tight races MRT won two of their six remaining races against Team Yanmar (Peter Gilmour) and the French Match Racing Team (Phillipe Presti). Despite losing four races they still continued to fight for each race and were satisfied with how they were sailing.

'We had a few tight battles out there this morning, the start is so crucial in these conditions and how you come off the line can determine the race result' commented Torvar Mirsky at the commencement of racing today.

Qualifying sixth in the round robin, they were left to face reigning world champion Bahrain Team Pindar (Ian Williams) in the quarter finals. Going down in the first race against Bahrain Team Pindar, MRT fought back to even up the scores in the second race.

The remaining races of the quarter finals will be raced tomorrow in a best of 5 series, where the winners will then advance to the semi final stage.

Live video coverage of the racing can be found at www.vidzapper.net/live/iframes/matchcup2009/.
Racing will commence at 10am tomorrow morning and the live video streaming will be available from the above link at 9am WST, 11am EST and 3pm GMT.

Results (wins/losses) - Quarter finals

Mirsky Racing Team (Torvar Mirsky) AUS vs. Bahrain Team Pindar (Ian Williams) GBR 1-1
Blackmatch (Adam Minoprio) NZ vs. Team Shosholoza (Paolo Cian) ITA 2-0
Team Yanmar (Peter Gilmour) AUS vs. Team Onboard (Bjorn Hansen) SWE 1-1
Team French Spirit (Mathieu Richard) FRA vs. Team Origin (Ben Ainslie GBR 0-0

9th Kiwi Match (Laurie Jury) NZ
10th K-Challenge/French Match Racing Team (Seb Col) FRA
11th French Match Racing Team (Phillip Presti) FRA
12th Byeong Ki Park KOR

A special thanks to Line7, Harken and the Royal Perth Yacht Club for their support.

by Kinley Fowler - Mirsky Racing Team