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Volvo Ocean Race - VOR 2005/2006 - Leg 5
www.volvooceanrace.org - Übersicht Leg 5

18.04.2006
Baltimore’s full house

After the three podium places for leg five were taken earlier today by ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson), movistar (Bouwe Bekking) and Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard), the final three boats finished in quick succession.

Brasil 1 (Torben Grael) held off Ericsson Racing Team (John Kostecki) to take fourth place by whisker, finishing 12 minutes ahead of the Swedish boat, while ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) brought up the rear in sixth position, finishing just under an hour later.
“The last 24 hours were terrible,” said skipper of Brasil 1, Torben Grael. “Everyone is really exhausted. We were all working on deck for the whole day and didn’t have a minute to rest, always checking where the other boats were. This result is good for the team’s morale. We fought for so long for this fourth place and winning it is a confidence boost for the next legs,” he said.

Leg five has seen a shake up on the overall leaderboard. Although ABN AMRO ONE has an advantage of 22 points as the team stretched their lead to 62.5, movistar now moves up from fourth place overall to second, with 40.5 points, and ABN AMRO TWO drops down a place to third. Pirates of the Caribbean exchanges third overall for fourth but the bottom of the leaderboard is unaffected and Brasil 1 and Ericsson maintain their fifth and sixth places.

Although ABN AMRO ONE has a strong advantage in the top spot, the race for second place is very open and there is everything to play for in the next in-port race scheduled to be held in Baltimore on April 29.

Jubelnder Empfang der Boote
Fotos: Oskar Kihlborg

Begrüßung zu Lande, zu Wasser und in der Luft

Ericsson als Vorletze
Foto: David Branigan

VOLVO OCEAN RACE SCOREBOARD LEG FIVE
LEG FINISH POSITION YACHT SCORING GATE POINTS LEG POINTS TOTAL LEG POINTS FINISH TIME ELAPSED TIME POINTS OVERALL POSITION OVERALL
1 ABN1 3 7.0 10.0 17/04/06 18:57:52 015d 02h 47m 52s 62.5 1
2 MOVI 3.5 6.0 9.5 18/04/06 00:14:15 015d 08h 04m 15s 40.5 2
3 POTC 2.5 5.0 7.5 18/04/06 11:22:48 015d 19h 12m 48s 39.0 4
4 BRA1 1.5 4.0 5.5 18/04/06 13:21:25 015d 21h 11m 25s 34.0 5
5 ERIC 2 3.0 5.0 18/04/06 13:33:24 015d 21h 23m 24s 28.5 6
6 ABN2 1 2.0 3.0 18/04/06 14:41:59 015d 22h 31m 59s 39.5 3
ABN1 ABN AMRO ONE ABN2 ABN AMRO TWO BRA1 Brasil 1 ERIC Ericsson Racing Team MOVI movistar POTC Pirates of the Caribbean
DTF: distance to finish, SMG: Speed made good, DTL: distance to leader, DTLC: distance to leader change; the difference between the distance from the boat to the leader taken at the time of the last six hour poll, and the distance from the boat to the leader at the previous poll SGPTS: points scored at scoring gates on this leg to date PLPTS: projected leg points PTLPTS: projected total leg points including actual points from scoring gates POP: projected overall points including actual points from scoring gates OVERALL: projected position in race overall if yacht maintains current position

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