Star - Christmas Race - Nizza FRA - Day 1, the Swiss

The first day of the 61th Christmas Race in Nizza was rather unusual, as the morning Northwind was accelerated by an increasing gradient wind in the same direction. The 10-12kn at the early start (8.45h) were rapidly up to over 20kn.
The World Ranking nbr 1 Xavier Rohart FRA with Serge Pulfer SUI as crew won all 3 heats clearly leading overall. On rank 2 follow Kurt and Markus Scheidegger SUI with a solid row of top-10 results. An excellent first day had also Martin Ingold/Dario Bischoff SUI on 4th overall with two 4th race finishes. 32 teams from 8 nations participate.
The results and a Video.