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Three
in a row for Ericsson 4 in a thrilling leg eight finish
Leg 8 Day 6 - 06:27 GMT Thursday, June 11, 2009. |
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| Ericsson 4 has done it again. In a thrilling finish to leg eight of the Volvo Ocean Race from Galway to Marstrand, Sweden, Ericsson 4 pulled out all the stops to take a third leg win in a row. PUMA finished second and, after a heroic effort from the crew, Green Dragon clung on to third place, to complete the same order of finish as for leg seven. |
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Ericsson 4, skippered by Torben
Grael (BRA) finish first on leg 8 from Galway to
Marstrand, crossing the line at 02:57:19 GMT, June
11, 2009.
Photo © Rick Tomlinson / Volvo Ocean Race.
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| Although Ericsson 4’s overall lead now seems unassailable (102 points overall), with just two legs to go until the finish of the race in St Petersburg later this month, the battle for second place has intensified. Bouwe Bekking’s fourth place on this leg has caused the Telefónica Blue team to lose their second place overall to PUMA (87 points overall) and they now trail by one point. |
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Ericsson 4, skippered by Torben
Grael (BRA) finish first on leg 8 from Galway to
Marstrand, crossing the line at 02:57:19 GMT, June
11, 2009.
Photo © Dave Kneale / Volvo Ocean Race.
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| However, at the head of the field and after five days of relentless racing, Ericsson 4 made her way to the front on day four, arriving at the Rotterdam Gate in first place. Positions swapped regularly as the fleet toughed out typical North Sea conditions and it was by no means certain that Ericsson 4’s lead was a given thing. |
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Ericsson 4, skippered by Torben
Grael (BRA) finish first on leg 8 from Galway to
Marstrand, crossing the line at 02:57:19 GMT, June
11, 2009.
Photo © Rick Tomlinson / Volvo Ocean Race.
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On arrival in Marstrand this morning, Brazilian skipper Torben Grael was very matter of fact about his team’s victory and prospects of an overall win.
"It was a very important result, a very close race. Green Dragon was sailing really well and they had an excellent leg. They went to the front and just stayed there," said Grael.
"We wanted to have a good result. This is a nice step towards the main goal. I have to thank this wonderful group because it was a tough leg, a difficult race and even though it was hard, people were in a good mood on board. We’re very close to winning the race, but we’re not there yet," he concluded. |
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Chasing PUMA is Green Dragon, skippered
by Ian Walker (GBR), who finished third on leg 8
from Galway to Marstrand, crossing the line at 03:05:40
GMT, June 11, 2009.
Photo © Rick Tomlinson / Volvo Ocean Race.
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| Piling on the pressure right from the start in Galway when they led the fleet round the Fastnet Rock off the southwestern tip of Ireland, Ian Walker and his crew on Green Dragon sailed a fantastic leg. Fighting off Telefónica Black by daring to go through the notorious Alderney Race, their final relegation to third position in the closing stages of this leg was, perhaps, undeserved. |
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PUMA Ocean Racing, skippered by Ken
Read (USA) finish second on leg 8 from Galway to
Marstrand, crossing the line at 03:04:46 GMT, June
11, 2009.
Photo © Rick Tomlinson / Volvo Ocean Race.
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| Skipper Ian Walker said, "We sailed pretty much a perfect leg, so there’s no point in being upset. They [PUMA] just did one perfect sched where they did something like 36 miles dead upwind. I don’t know how they did it to be honest. Until then, they were down and out. We were torn between going over to cover them and trying to sail our own race. If it was going to be a reach to the finish, they’re about 10 per cent quicker so we figured we’d need about seven miles. We got back about five miles ahead of them, and it wasn’t quite enough." |
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Green Dragon, skippered by Ian Walker
(GBR) finish third on leg 8 from Galway to Marstrand,
crossing the line at 03:05:40 GMT, June 11, 2009.
Photo © Dave Kneale / Volvo Ocean Race.
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The crew of PUMA, after wrecking their biggest spinnaker, had a difficult time to keep the morale onboard positive. With their best sail in pieces, the crew had no choice but to cross the low pressure by sailing northwest for a while. A move that certainly paid off when the team came steaming in like an express train from the north and snatched second place from the claws of the Dragon.
"My hat is off for PUMA’s brave move, which was very close to making them win this race," said Telefónica Black’s navigator Roger Nilson, who after leading for a while finished in sixth place and witnessed PUMA blowing out their sail earlier in the leg. |
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Telefonica Blue, skippered by Bouwe
Bekking (NED) finish fourth on leg 8 from Galway
to Marstrand, crossing the line at 03:24:21 GMT,
June 11, 2009.
Photo © Rick Tomlinson / Volvo Ocean Race.
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In his last email from the boat before crossing the finish, PUMA’s skipper, Kenny Read said, "We were wondering how we got into the mess we were in, and we had to split from the fleet, certainly not something we wished to do. But, we had a plan B and were going to execute it come hell or high water. Next came the gale. Forty knots upwind again, while reading the reports of the fleet having a lovely sail to Sweden. This was the price we had to pay to get to the northerlies that would eventually catapult us back into the game."
On reaching the dock in Marstrand, Read was ecstatic: "The ‘no-quit’ in this team is beyond imagination. We had every reason to quit and I think we’re kind of stunned to be honest. Twenty-four hours ago, we were sailing with a triple reef and a number four upwind in a gale, while the other guys were running down the coast. I give Andrew Cape a lot of credit. We got ourselves in a tough spot and he got us out of it. He could have said ‘let’s just follow them in’ and he didn’t. He deserves a ton of credit." |
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Delta Lloyd, skippered by Roberto
Bermudez (ESP) finish fifth on leg 8 from Galway
to Marstrand, crossing the line at 03:38:12 GMT,
and Telefonica Black, skippered by Fernando Echavarri
(ESP) finish sixth, crossing the line at 03:38:31
GMT, June 11, 2009.
Photo © Rick Tomlinson / Volvo Ocean Race.
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"I almost feel bad for Green Dragon. They sailed a great race. That’s their best effort yet. We had a little pace on them in reaching conditions and we just pipped them," Read added.
The Volvo fleet is now safely moored in Marstrand. Finishing further down the order were Telefónica Blue (4th), who now slips to third place overall; Delta Lloyd who stole points on the finish line for fifth place from one-time leg leader Telefónica Black; and Ericsson 3 who finished in seventh.
The stop in Marstrand is brief and as a ‘pit-stop’, any repairs that need to be carried out to the boats will have to be done by the already exhausted crews themselves as shore crew assistance in a pit-stop is against the rules. The fleet leaves Marstrand for Stockholm on Sunday June 14. |
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PUMA Ocean Racing, skippered by Ken
Read (USA) finish second on leg 8 from Galway to
Marstrand at 03:04:46 GMT. Chasing PUMA is Green
Dragon, skippered by Ian Walker (GBR), who finish
third at 03:05:40 GMT, June 11, 2009.
Photo © Rick Tomlinson / Volvo Ocean Race.
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Leg 8 Finishing Order, Marstrand.
1. Ericsson 4
2. PUMA
3. Green Dragon
4. Telefónica Blue
5. Delta Lloyd
6. Telefónica Black
7. Ericsson 3
For elapsed times, please go to the Data Centre on the official Volvo Ocean Race website: www.volvooceanrace.org/rdc/ and navigate to the
Data Tables. You will find the elapsed times are under Position Data.
Overall Leaderboard.
1. Ericsson 4 (Torben Grael / BRA): 102 points
2. PUMA (Ken Read / USA): 87.0 points
3. Telefónica Blue (Bouwe Bekking / NED): 86.0 points
4. Ericsson 3 (Magnus Olsson / SWE): 64.5 points
5. Green Dragon (Ian Walker / GBR): 59.0 points
6. Telefónica Black (Fernando Echávarri / ESP): 42.0
7. Delta Lloyd (Roberto Bermúdez / ESP): 35.0 points
8. Team Russia (Andreas Hanakamp / AUT): 10.5 points |
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Ericsson 3, skippered by Magnus
Olsson (SWE) finish seventh on leg 8 from Galway
to Marstrand, crossing the line at 04:16:52 GMT,
June 11, 2009.
Photo © Rick Tomlinson / Volvo Ocean Race.
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Rotterdam Gate Race.
1. Ericsson 3: in 12 mins 40 secs
2. PUMA: in 14 mins 03 secs
3. Telefónica Black: in 14 mins 55 secs
4. Telefónica Blue: in 14 mins 56 secs
5. Green Dragon: in 14 mins 58 secs
6. Delta Lloyd: in 15 mins 03 secs
7. Ericsson 4: in 15 mins 11 secs
Dover Strait Exit Order June 8, 2009.
(as the fleet crossed the latitude of Broadstairs, Kent)
1. Green Dragon
2. Telefónica Black
3. PUMA
4. Delta Lloyd
5. Ericsson 3
6. Telefónica Blue
7. Ericsson 4
Dover Strait Entry Order June 7, 2009.
1. Telefónica Black
2. Green Dragon
3. Ericsson 3
4. Ericsson 4
5. PUMA
6. Delta Lloyd
7. Telefónica Blue
Fastnet Rock Rounding Order June 6, 2009.
1. Green Dragon 22:46:34 GMT
2. PUMA 22:51:51 GMT
3. Telefónica Blue 22:53:15 GMT
4. Ericsson 4 22:55:20 GMT
5. Ericsson 3 22:56:23 GMT
6. Delta Lloyd 23:14:15 GMT
7. Telefónica Black 23:23:50 GMT
Visit www.volvooceanrace.org for all the latest news! |
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| All
Galway and Leg 8 Articles. |
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| Sleepless and shattered - Leg 8 Day 5 - 14:36 GMT Wednesday, June 10, 2009. |
| Downwind dash to Marstrand - Leg 8 Day 4 - 14:36 GMT Tuesday, June 9, 2009. |
| English
Channel challenges fleet - Leg 8 Day 3 - 14:40 GMT Monday,
June 8, 2009. |
| High winds, high speeds, high drama - Leg 8 Day 2 - 14:42 GMT Sunday, June 7, 2009. |
| Green
Dragon blazes out of Galway in leg 8 start - 16:22 GMT
Saturday, June 6, 2009. |
| Fleet ready for the sprint to Sweden - 14:08 GMT Friday, June 5, 2009. |
| First win for Puma in Galway In-Port Race - 17:24 GMT Saturday, May 30, 2009. |
| In-Port Race on Galway Bay promises to be spectacular - 14:04 GMT Friday, May 29, 2009. |
| Volvo Ocean Race crew list Galway In-Port Race - 10:05 GMT Friday, May 29, 2009. |
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| Team Russia
suspends operations in Singapore |
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| As Team Russia
has suspending its operations after arriving in Singapore,
it hasn’t ruled out returning to the race at a later
date should sponsorship be found. The team remains unique
in the eight boat fleet in not having any naming or title
sponsorship. For anyone interested in helping out Team
Russia with sponsorship so they can continue to race, more
information can be found on their website at: http://www.teamrussia.org/en/partners/view/become_a_team_sponsor/ |
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