After two races Dirk Oldenburg leads in Hungarian Championship
Balatonkenese, 4th June, 2010 – After two races, the German boat with Dirk Oldenburg, Ulli Libor and Uwe Mares lead in front of Vinci Hoesch at the Hungarian Championship, tune up for the Europeans. The second race was started at 4 pm on Thursday when PRO Gert Schmidleitner and Farkas Litkey sent the fleet out in a Northerly breeze 10 to 12 knots.

Wind gets heavier for Hungarian Championship
Balatonkenese, 4th June, 2010 – The third and fourth race of the Hungarian Championship saw a reduced fleet after a Northerly breeze gusting up to 30 knots with an average of 25 knots welcomed 39 participants on Friday morning. Russian boat with Anatoliy Mikhailin at the helm mastered these conditions the best and is leading now with 15 points in front of Vince Hoesch whose mast bent in the first race of the day.

Vinci wins Hungarian Championship again
Balatonkenese, 6th June, 2010 – After a light-wind 5th race Vinci Hoesch won the 2010 Hungarian Championship, preceeding the European Dragon Championship in Balatonkenese Hungary. At about 11.00 a.m. PRO Gert Schmidleitner sent the field off for a fifth race in a light, 6-7 knot West-North-West which slowed down to 4 knots after 1.5 hrs. The right decision was to shorten, so the field finished after the second downwind leg.

Vinci succeeded in getting around FRA 323 in the last leg and won the race which ensured him his third back-to-back Hungarian Champion title. Two points behind Vinci the second place went to RUS 27, Anatoly Mikhailin, Andrey Kirilyuk and Alexander Shalagin. They mastered the second day’s heavy wind very well and sailed – even in the absence of their helmsman, Anatoly Loginov – a fantastic race. Third place went to GER 1014 (Dirk Oldenburg, Uwe Mares, Ulli Libor) who sailed a perfect first day.

The Championship finished with a „fun” race, where the sponsor’s gusts were taken on board of 16 dragons and sailed a short light-wind course.

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