Some competitors did not pay sufficient attention to IJ Chair Gonzalo Heredia words during skippers meeting on 31th October prior to the races, and so did not noticed they had to leave leeward gate mark on port before finishing the race…
Hence those had to fill in RAF (retire after finish) forms, and, as a consequence, Pablo Völker & Juan Martin Benitez have been declared 1st race winners, getting their second bullet there.
They now have to wait for five races to be validated, in order to be given permission to discard the 14 points they got on Race 3, and to look for a position on the final podium, what their contenders are not prepared to give them without strongly fighting on the water…
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