Barcelona World Race duo refuse to concede victory



9:46 PM Mon 14 Mar 2011 GMT
'Mapfre - Barcelona World Race' Barcelona World Race ?
Barcelona World Race skippers Iker Mart?nez and Xabi Fern?ndez on board Mapfre are 368-miles behind Virbac-Paprec 3 (Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron). The determined Spanish pair refuse to concede victory to the French leaders. 'In terms of the leaders, at least they haven't got away,' commented Xabi Fern?ndez (ESP) today. 'More than worry about catching up with them, the first step is not to let them get too far away, so we are constantly on their case. Four hundred miles are recoverable with the North Atlantic still to go and above all the Gibraltar Strait, as we all know what ...


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