The IMOCA general is waiting for the International Jury to attend to a claim from the ’11th Hour Racing Team’
MADRID, 27 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
‘Team Malizia’ won the seventh stage of The Ocean Race on Tuesday in the IMOCA class, held from The Hague (Netherlands) to Genoa (Italy), thanks to a good strategy in the final moments, but leaving the fleet at the waiting for the World Sailing International Jury to attend a claim from the ’11th Hour Racing Team’ for a collision with the ‘GUYOT environment-Team Europe’.
On arrival in the waters of the port of Genoa, skipper Boris Herrmann and his crew from ‘Team Malizia’ took the lead in extremely light and variable conditions at 06:00 UTC, thanks to the fact that they came close to land and caught a light breeze Along the coast. This allowed them to easily overtake ‘Team Holcim-PRB’, who had led most of the stage, as well as ‘Biotherm’.
After the arrival of ‘Malizia’, which thus won its second leg, the wind dropped almost completely and caused a slow duel between Paul Meilhat’s ‘Biotherm’ and Benjamin Schwartz’s ‘Holcim-PRB’. In this way, ‘Biotherm’ was the one who achieved second place, leaving the ‘Holcim-PRB’ team in an unfortunate third place.
Meanwhile, the ’11th Hour Racing Team’ and the ‘GUYOT environment-Team Europe’ were forced to retire shortly after the start, after colliding. Therefore, the general classification of the IMOCA fleet remains provisional, pending the redress request submitted by the ’11th Hour Racing Team’ after the other boat struck him and acknowledged responsibility for the incident.
“The World Sailing International Jury will hear the request for reparation on Thursday,” reported the organization of this round-the-world sailing with stopovers. With current results, Charlie Enright’s ’11th Hour Racing Team’ is just one point behind the leader ‘Holcim-PRB’, so any offset of one point or more would give him overall victory.
‘TEAM JAJO’ CERTIFIES ITS SECOND PLACE IN THE VO65 CLASS
The first boat to finish its participation in Genoa this Tuesday for the VO65 class, just a few minutes ahead of ‘Malizia’, was ‘Team JAJO’. He did it with skipper Jelmer van Beek, crossing the finish line just over 24 hours after the ‘WindWhisper Racing Team’ won the Sprint Cup title.
That second place in Genoese waters secured ‘Team JAJO’ second place in the general classification of the VO65 fleet. The ‘Viva México’ then had its best result with a third place that took a long time to arrive, thanks to a dying wind prolonging its stage.
Behind these boats, the light wind conditions also affected the ‘Mirpuri/Trifork Racing Team’ and the ‘Austrian Ocean Racing powered by Team Genova’, both teams sailing very slowly towards the Genoese finish line.