Barcelona World Race - Team Foncia leads the way



7:48 PM Fri 21 Jan 2011 GMT
'Barcelona World Race - Team Foncia' ? MMuina/FNOB Click Here to view large photo
Barcelona World Race. On 15 January, Michel Desjoyeaux and Fran?ois Gabart left the Brazilian port of Recife after an 18 hour pit stop to repair the sacrificial bow on their monohull. When they took up where they left off in the competition, their deficit in relation to the new leaders of the Barcelona World Race, Spaniards Alex Pella and Pepe Ribes, had risen to a little over 300 miles. However, their decision to stay to the West and go right around the outside of a rather disorganised Saint Helena High reshuffled the cards. Hurtling along downwind two or three times ...


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