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The Audi MedCup resumes the march, after nearly a month break from the conclusion of his fourth leg held in Portals (Mallorca).

The TP52 fleet arrives in Cartagena with some additional challenges, both entering the final straight of the circuit 2008 as facing a race course unknown.

One of the new fleet is the incorporation of Bigamist Portuguese ship, that being a habitual past festival debuts this season in the proof of Cartagena.

Pedro Mendonça's ship has its usual pattern, the Luso Afonso Domingos coming directly from China, where he competed in the Olympic Star Class

The Bigamist is one of fourteen yachts that sail in the first racecourse Cartagena, where never before played in a high-level racing.

However, weather forecasts predict a week in advance to an enviable bargaining conditions, namely easterly winds.

So, tomorrow and Tuesday are forecast to Southeast, it could roll over the Northeast on Wednesday.

The wind speed is expected to range between 14 and 16 knots, with the potential for a test sail with gusts up to 20 knots, to allow these fast boats realize their full potential.

With eleven races scheduled, 10 of them in windward-leeward and coastal-scoring double, the Region of Murcia Trophy will be the first final of the Audi MedCup 2008.

A crucial phase five ships (the American Quantum Racing, Sweden's Artemis, the Rogue Spanish, Argentine and German Platoon Matador) face with sights set on the final standings of the Tour, and e in which some can be discarded, others Featured or maybe all of them more equal.

Without doubt, the sport even more motivated emotion to the people of Cartagena and Murcia province to follow the event with more interest over the weekend d week.

The location of the fleet moored on the seafront Afonso XII easy viewing public, who can enjoy watching these modern boats and work crews, tato in the morning as preparations for their return to port after the races.

So Monday morning the 13 hours race official training will raise the curtain Trophy Region of Murcia, which ends on Saturday.

Source: Audi MedCup - Fotografía: Murcia.com