After five races of the Portugal Trophy Cascais, the first regatta of the 2010 Audi MedCup Circuit, the Ben Ainslie-led crew of TeamOrigin 1851 lead overall by two points ahead of defending champions Emirates Team New Zealand.

As befits a crew with seven Olympic medals and two America’s Cup wins between their afterguard, TeamOrigin’s starting was sharp today and they were then able to profit from the windshifts to gain places on both of today’s contests.

“ It was a good day, a solid day with no big mistakes which in a 50 race series is what it is all about so we are happy," said tactician Iain Percy.“ There's so many good people, if you make any mistake you are going to be punished hard so we have to try and avoid mistakes. We've already made them like everyone on the first year but we have to try to eliminate them as much as we can.”

James Boyd. More on the Daily Sail
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Results:

Pos Boat Helm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Tot
1 TEAMORIGIN 1851 Ben Ainslie 4 9 2 4 2 21
2 EMIRATES TEAM NEW ZEALAND Dean Barker 6 11 1 1 4 23
3 SYNERGY Karol Jablonski 8 1 6 3 5 23
4 QUANTUM RACING Terry Hutchinson 1 5 8 2 10 26
5 AUDI A1 POWERED BY ALL4ONE Jochen Schuemann 9 7 4 6 1 27
6 CRISTABELLA Tim Powell 2 8 3 5 9 27
7 ARTEMIS Paul Cayard 3 6 7 8 3 27
8 MATADOR Guillermo Parada 7 2 5 9 8 31
9 LUNA ROSSA Robert Scheidt 5 3 9 10 6 33
10 BIGAMIST 7 Afonso Domingos 11 4 11 7 11 44
11 BRIBON Gonzalo Araujo 10 10 10 12 7 49