La Solitaire du Figaro - The stage is set in the Bay of Seine



4:03 PM Tue 27 Jul 2010 GMT
'La Solitaire du Figaro 2010 start' Courcoux-Marmara/Le Figaro Click Here to view large photo
La Solitaire du Figaro saw 45 sailors get off today at 14:00 under overcast skies in the bay of Le Havre with eight to nine knots of breeze from varying north-westerly direction. Bar the two individual recalls given to overeager rookies, Francisco Lobato (ROFF/TEMPO/TEAM) and Louis Maurice Tannyeres (St. Ericsson) the race got off to a clean start. Eric Peron (Massif 2009) warded off some stiff competition to reach the offset mark some thirty minutes into racing in the lead and continued to ward off attempts by Frederic Duthil (BBox) and Adrien Hardy (AGIR) to grab the coveted Radio France ...


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