French challengers Groupama needed the particular Volvo Ocean Race overall direct within the first time associated with Friday, lastly wresting the actual advantage through Spain's Telefonica, exactly who had headed that fleet considering November.
With not one but two hip and legs to go, only 21 tips will certainly separate that four primary charter boats with every stage valued at 30 items for the winner, the actual species is actually because open up from this overdue stage while it has become with it has the 39-year history.
The greatest festivities over a balmy Lisbon night belonged that will Abu Dhabi in addition to British skipper Ian Walker, who battled through a couple suspensions caused by cruiser breakages to adopt his first leg wining within two models of offshore crusing s toughest specialized test.
"I've sailed about 70,000 a long way world wide along with I ve in no way won a calf 70,000 kilometers is a lot regarding effort," Walker said. "To win a lower calf has been one of my own aims with this kind also it thinks great. So much effort goes straight into all these tasks plus it azines most of to get times for instance this."
The crew received the 3,500-nautical kilometer trans-Atlantic stage from Miami into the Portuguese money having only several minutes and also 27 minutes in order to resign from Franck Cammas' Groupama after 11 a short time of sailing.
"We ended up very in close proximity for you to Abu Dhabi and it came into that wire," explained Cammas, major France vertisements very first concern within the contest seeing that 1994. "We have a nice leg, along with ups and downs in addition to many of us surface on a high. We are usually seriously happy."
The outcome departs Groupama ahead by just a few factors about Telefonica, who seem to took a beginning stranglehold within the kind following succeeding the primary a few hip and legs but have got struggled for tempo within the most current two stages.
The next race lower leg will take your fleet in order to Lorient in France before lastly completing around Galway, Ireland, after nine a few months and many more compared to 39,000 nautical kilometers sailed.
Overall standings: 1. Groupama (France) 183 pts, 2. Telefonica (Spain) 180, 3. Puma (USA) 171, 4. Camper (New Zealand/Spain) 162, 5. Abu Dhabi 104, 6. Team Sanya (China) 32.
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