The 2025 edition of the World Cup was closed by completing its ten-test program, won by seven different teams in a new sample of the very high level of equality between the 52 Super Series fleet

The Rolex TP52 World Championship Cascais 2025 was literally decided in the last meters of the tenth and final test of the event. The TP52 World Cup fired two rounds in the most complicated conditions of the week, in which the two candidates for the title continued to alternate at the head of the provisional. Despite the efforts to the very goal line of a committed Paprec, American Magic Quantum Racing did enough to raise its eighth world crown and consolidate its position at the head of the fleet.

After the Cascais race, the circuit is now moved to Palma Bay, where the fourth Circuit, Puerto Portals, will be held from August 18 to 23.

2025-07-05: Rolex TP42 Cascais: American Magic is looking for its eighth World Cup

Winds above 20 knots allowed to meet the three-test program with idyllic navigation conditions that allowed to define the exit grill for the great end of Sunday

The penultimate day of competition of the Rolex TP52 World Championship Cascais 2025 contributed three partial to the locker of the eleven teams in a pure Cascais condition. Sled was the best of a long and demanding day, but American Magic Quantum Racing did enough to face the last day as the leader of the fourth event of the 52 Super Series 2025 and dream of what would be his eighth world crown of TP52. Paprec (five points) and Sled (nine points) are their ultimate rivals.

2025-07-04: Rolex TP42 Cascais: the new French leader Paprec, after a day with a sleeve

After two days of hard wind conditions, Cascais dawned on Friday in the fog and with a light breeze that was to be a record change in the battle for the Rolex TP52 World Championship Cascais 2025. A single test allowed South African Phoenix to score its first partial victory of the season and French Paprec to ascend to the first position of the provisional

The departure of the fifth punctuable test for the Rolex TP52 World Championship Cascais 2025 would take place after four in the afternoon, after a three-hour wait on the initial program and with just eight knots of west component wind. On this occasion, the fleet was deployed all over the line, surprising the position of Paprec very unhung from its rivals by the left end. The team armed by Jean-Luc Petithuenin began the test by sailing alone and managed to lead a first step by buoy in slow motion, followed closely by Phoenix and Alkedo. At that point, the fleet was again divided, with Paprec opting for the left as Phoenix decided to continue for the right, overcoming the French before reaching the equator of the tour.

American Magic Quantum Racing received a painful penalty in the passage through the barlovent door for an incident with Paprec while Phoenix was taking to its first partial victory of the season. By the boat of Tina and Hasso Plattner, who for the first time sailed with the tactic of Nic Asher, Paprec and Alkedo fought for the second position at opposite ends of the last stretch and with a
Very unstable wind. After an interesting duel, the French team achieved a second meritorious since it raised it to the front of the provisional thanks to the sixth signed by American Magic Quantum Racing.

2025-07-03: Rolex TP42 Cascais: American Magic takes over

A solid victory and a third was enough for the American Magic Quantum Racing to take away the provisional leadership of his compatriot Sled in the battle for the world crown of TP52, which is disputed in the Portuguese town of Cascais until next Sunday (Photo Nico Rodríguez)

The second day of competition was again favored by the reliable wind of Cascais, which propelled the eleven TP52 with intensities around the 20 knots. This time, with a little less wave than in the previous day, but enough to provide a double show session of the best high-prize monocasque in the Rolex TP52 World Championship Cascais 2025.

After two days and four disputed tests, American Magic Quantum Racing is the new leader... some 3 + 2 + 1 + 3 partials place American team at the front of the provisional with three points of advantage over the French Paprec, which is performing an exceptional tandem with the timonel Cedric Chateau and the tactical Loïck Peyron (5 + 2 today). In third position, and 12 points from the first, is now Sled. Takashi Okura's team, the best of the first day, failed to replicate the pace with which he started the championship, signing a ninth and an eighth that sent him from the first to the third place in the classification.

2025-07-02: Rolex TP42 Cascais: an impressive Sled already leads the fleet

The Rolex TP52 World Championship Cascais 2025 took time to start, but when it did, it was to confirm the success in choosing the headquarters and the visual beauty of the TP52 sailing in hard wind. The first of the World Cup's five days of competition needed a ground deferral, two general calls and a delay for the major sailing change of Protenzza before the start of a double session that left the most impressive images in the season

The battle for the Rolex TP52 World Championship Cascais 2025 began with an extraordinary day of race in unpublished conditions this season. Winds above 20 knots and three-metre waves tested the ability of the eleven crews and the development of their machines in two magnificent tests that allowed the American Sled to become the first leader of the TP52 2025 World Cup.

Together with the two results of this inaugural day, Sled is the first leader of the Rolex TP52 World Championship Cascais 2025. The American ship, world champion of TP52 in 2021, competes in Portuguese waters with Adam Beassel as a timonel, Francesco Bruni as a tactical and Murray Jones as a strategist. With a first and a third, he returned to the Cascais Naval Clube with four points on his score, one ahead of the tie starring Paprec and American Magic Quantum Racing.