Barcelona World Race - A game of roulette for the leaders

8:25 PM Thu 10 Mar 2011 GMT

'We Are Water leaving Wellington - Barcelona World Race' Mike Clare / DPPI / Barcelona World Race Click Here to view large photo

Barcelona World Race update. The long stretch north, into the trades, was logically expected by both the co-skippers of Virbac-Paprec 3 and by Mapfre. The long time leaders Loick-Peyron and Jean-Pierre Dick had some confidence that they would escape first from the south Atlantic high pressure system which had snared them for more than 48 hours. With their more westerly course, closer to the centre of the anticyclone and so in lighter winds, Spanish Olympic medallists Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez were hopeful that they could still get sufficiently close to their rivals to reach the exit of the high ...

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