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[singlepic=1017,250,170,,left]Vendée Globe – Oceano Atlantico – Resiste Sebastien Josse al comando della Vendée Globe, ma il fortino sta per essere espugnato da Yann Eliés. Lo skipper di BT, infatti, ha visto l’avversario avvicinarsi miglio dopo miglio e ora se lo trova lì, a poco più di due miglia. Vicini, tra i due gate, al punto di potersi vedere a occhio nudo.
Generali, s’è capito, sta camminando di più e al passo dimostrato nelle passate ore, potrebbe superare Josse nel giro di un solo rilevamento.
Terza posizione per un redivivo Loick Peyron. Ma la notizia del giorno sono i 30.44 nodi toccati da Michel Desojeaux sotto pilota automatico (vedi foto).
Intanto, nelle retrovie, Bernard Stamm ha stabilito il nuovo record di percorrenza nelle ventiquattro ore di questa edizione. Lo skipper di Cheminées Poujoulat, quindicesimo a oltre seicentosettanta miglia dal primo, sfruttando i venti tesi che per tutta la giornata hanno soffiato da nord-nordest, ha coperto la bellezza di trecentonovanta miglia.
Day 25, 20.00 GMT, ranking
1 – Sebastien Josse (BT) at 17872.0 nm to finish
2 – Eliés Yann (Generali) +2.5 nm
3 – Loïck Peyron (Gitana Eighty) +27.5 nm
4 – Roland Jourdain (Veolia Environnement) +46.1 nm
5 – Jean Le Cam (VM Materiaux) +48.2 nm
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Video courtesy Vendée Globe.
GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR MITCH
[singlepic=1016,250,170,,left][Vendée Globe Press Release] Might we see a lead change? Seb Josse (BT), racing neck and neck with Yann Elies (Generali) retains just a little sliver of an advantage, only 2.5 miles on tonight’s ranking, and Generali has been quicker between the last two polls, and 1.5 knots quicker over the last hour as the fastest of the top 10 on the 1hour ‘speed gun’ pol.
In some respects it is academic, tonight is as much about preservation as it is about pressing hard to gain a few fractions of a knot. But it will be a fascinating night.
Michel Desjoyeaux has just informed his media team that he was surfing at 30.44 knots on Foncia with the pilot doing its job nicely (see photo).
Jean Pierre Dick has shed miles and two places to plunge south on what, for a time, looked like a solo mission. He is more than 180 miles south of the track taken by third placed Loïck Peyron on Gitana Eighty.
Mike Golding on Ecover 3 has passed Vincent Riou and is up to seventh, and gybed south at about 18.00 GMT.
Only 3.7 miles separates fourth from sixth with those smiling duelling adversaries Le Cam and Bilou on the ’04 Lombard sister-ships need a crow bar to separate them, still locked together only 2.1 miles adrift in terms of DTF.
Not to be outdone, between seventh and ninth – southbound Ecover to BritAir’s much more northern track – there is only 9.2 miles.
Day 25, 20.00 GMT, ranking
1 – Sebastien Josse (BT) at 17872.0 nm to finish
2 – Eliés Yann (Generali) +2.5 nm
3 – Loïck Peyron (Gitana Eighty) +27.5 nm
4 – Roland Jourdain (Veolia Environnement) +46.1 nm
5 – Jean Le Cam (VM Materiaux) +48.2 nm
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