Crozon Foil Festival: AXIS riders win the downwind and the Foil Drive race
The AXIS team is having a week to remember at the Crozon Foil Festival in Brittany. Kai Thompson won the first downwind race on 16 October by 12 seconds, Marnie Bertram, 16, was the first woman home, and Philippe Axmann won the over-40s. Earlier in the week Luke Atkinson and Holly Pye won the Foil Drive downwinder. These are the results so far: a second downwind runs on Saturday and the prone contest is at the quarter-finals.
The downwind
More than 80 riders started from the beach at Veryac'h and raced towards the Pointe de Pen-Hir in a two-metre Atlantic swell. Kai Thompson won in 47:34.5, 12.3 seconds ahead of Alexander Tibbits, with Axel Pham third. Raiarii Fadier finished sixth and Toaura Haumani, 19, eighth. Marnie Bertram won the women's race in 1:06:41.9, and Philippe Axmann the men's over-40s in 57:51.2.
That is the gear we sell: the red boards in these pictures are AXIS + Frank downwind boards, and the gold mast is the Kaiwi, AXIS's ultra high modulus mast.
The Foil Drive race
On 13 October the Foil Drive fleet started at sunrise under the cliffs of Cap de la Chèvre and raced about five kilometres to Morgat. Luke Atkinson won by 1.4 seconds, and Holly Pye won the women's race. If you want to try foil assist yourself, we have Foil Drive in the shop, and demo units in Sausalito.
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Photos Loïc Olivier. Results from the organisers' timing on Webscorer and the Crozon Foil Festival.