BlackMarch Racing win the Monsoon Cup in straight races.

8:42 AM Sun 6 Dec 2009 GMT

'Monsoon Cup Final between Ben Ainslie (TeamOrigin) and Adam Minoprio (BlackMatch) pre-start Match 1 in the 2009 Monsoon Cup Final.' Sail-World.com /AUS &copy Click Here to view large photo

Adam Minoprio (24) skippered BlackMatch Racing (NZL) to a 3-0 win over TeamOrigin's Ben Ainslie (GBR) in the Final of the Monsoon Cup, sailed in Malaysia.

A day earlier Blackmatch won the World Matchracing title by virtue of making the Semi-Finals, and today's win extended the margin over Torvar Mirsky (AUS).

The win earned the Blackmatch crew USD105,000 prizemoney.

After a controversial start to the first match which saw the British crew fly a red protest flag, disputing a starting official's call, when both competitors were signalled as being premature starters.

Minoprio returned and started cleanly, while Ainslie also scored a penalty for pre-start contact. Minoprio never reallylost control of the match, although margins ebbed and flowed as the competitors stepped between chasing increased wind pressure, or hitting the strongest current flowing up both sides of the course.

Race 2 was the closest of the best of five event. But again Minoprio got control soon after the start and led around each mark of the three lap course,

The third and what proved to be the final race was a slow action replay of the first two, with Ainslie's bad day being capped off with the ignominy of a spinnaker halyard failure on the last leg.

At the conclusion of that race, Ainslie withdrew his protest and Blackmatch racing had win the final and most lucrative regatta on the World Match Racing Tour with a winners purse of USD105,000.

At the prizegiving ceremony the Prime Minister of Malaysia presented both the Monsoon Cup and the World Match racing Championship to the New Zealand crew of Adam Minoprio, David Swete, Tom Powrie and Nick Blackman.

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