Barcelona World Race - 541 mile lead

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7:52 PM Tue 15 Feb 2011 GMT

'Lo?ck Peyron and Jean-Pierre Dick - Barcelona World Race' Jean-Pierre Dick/Virbac-Paprec 3

Barcelona World Race and the most dramatic stage of the course is fast approaching for BWR leaders Virbac-Paprec 3, as Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron (FRA) approach the northerly tip of New Zealand?s South Island and prepares to cross the Cook Strait. Leading the Barcelona World Race by over 540 miles, the short passage through the Cook Strait ? which separate the North and South Islands by just twenty miles at their narrowest point ? will be something of a victorious homecoming for Virbac-Paprec 3. The latest generation IMOCA 60 was built in New Zealand at the Cookson yard in ...

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