#38 Baia High Performance wanted second
Wednesday 01 October 2008
The #38 Baia High Performance team finished second in Saturday's Sprint race in Portugal
The #38 Baia High Performance SuperSport-class team have said that third place in this year’s championship standings was a positive result in the team’s first year, but have admitted that they were aiming for more after a string of impressive podium results that allowed them to close within 20 points of the #07 Microlink PC team.
Run by the same OSG Racing team that operates the #88 Kiton Outerlimits Evolution-class boat, pilot Stefano Acanfora, throttleman Renato Guidi and navigator Roy Capasso have made good use of their Mercury-powered Donzi hull, taking advantage of the rule change that allowed the former Evolution-class twin-canopy hull to be allowed to race in the SuperSport class this year.
“The team is new for 2008, but we actually expected more,” Capasso admitted. “We really thought that we could get second place. Unfortunately the moving of Bahrain to 2009 and the cancellation of the second day of the season finale in Portugal [due to bad weather] reduced our chances.
“It wasn’t possible for us to regain the points lost in San Benedetto in Italy and in Tunisia, when the boat had problems that weren’t our fault. The final position in the championship doesn’t reflect our real potential.”
For a definitive team-by-team rundown of how the rest of the SuperSport class performed in 2008, click here.