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Originally Posted by Ciao
Cinzano 558 winning at Cowes.
Markus deserved something after RB 2008, perhaps a race win or two, but a Cowes Torquay Cowes victory in his first season of Marathon Racing?
If you have followed this sport for a while, the 2009 winners at Cowes did have the "Roy of the Rovers" end.
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Sorry, was so overcome with gratitude (that the race happened at all!) that I went slightly off-thread there...
Talking to those deserving and really nice guys, Markus, Tim and Eric after the race, they would be the first to admit to mixed feelings about stealing the win from under Mike Deacon's nose... but what do you do?!
You can't really slow-down to let the other guy win... that would be a false result. You can't turn-down an historic Cowes - Torquay - Cowes win...ever!
Watching the post-race interviews with Mike, he just took it all in his stride, took it like the gentleman that he is and put it down to fate.
I suppose the Gardner brothers had to do the same in '68, after they'd watched their main rival sink, throttled-back and cruised home to find Telstar in the winner's berth.
Must n't forget the other end of the fleet... Nick and Jon's epic trek back from Torquay, on a day that would normally have suited them just fine...