Volvo Ocean Race 2001/2002 zurück zur Übersicht Tagesberichte Vorab-Pressemitteilung der illbruck Challenge zum Zieleinlauf der 3. Etappe des Volvo Ocean Race „Assa Abloy“ gewinnt / „illbruck“ kämpft um Platz drei Zieleinlauf des deutschen Boots gegen 22 Uhr deutscher Zeit erwartet. Auckland – Die schwedische Hochseeyacht „Assa Abloy“ unter Skipper Neil McDonald hat die dritte Etappe des Volvo Ocean Race Round the World 2001-2002 gewonnen. Um 6.20 Uhr und 42 Sekunden Ortszeit (18.20 Uhr deutscher Zeit) kreuzte sie die Ziellinie in Auckland/Neuseeland. Die Leverkusener „illbruck“ lag 42 Seemeilen zurück auf Rang drei und dürfte das Ziel gegen 22 Uhr erreichen. Allerdings waren die Verfolger „News Corp “ (Australien) und „Tyco“ (Bermuda) gleichauf nur eine Seemeile zurück. Nachdem die „Amer Sports One“ (Finnland/Italien) sicher Zweiter werden sollte, dürfte es ein dramatisches Finish um den dritten Platz auf dem Podium geben. Der Himmel öffnete seine Pforten, und es regnete in Strömen, als die blau-bronzene „Assa Abloy“ in die Hobson Wharf von Auckland einlief. Dennoch hatten sich einige hundert segelverrückte Neuseeländer am Hafen eingefunden, um mit dem schwedischen Team zu jubeln. Kaum am Dock und beglückwünscht musste Skipper Neil McDonald auch schon ein unfreiwilliges Bad im Hafenbecken machen. Seine Crew warf ihn schlicht über Bord. „Assa Abloy“ war als Mitfavorit in die härteste Segelregatta gestartet, allerdings in den ersten beiden Etappen, die von der „illbruck“ gewonnen wurden, deutlich hinter den eigenen Erwartungen zurückgeblieben. In der Gesamtwertung wird illbruck Challenge in jedem Fall die Gesamtführung vor „Amer Sports One“ und „News Corp“ verteidigen. Weitere Informationen: Andreas Kling Tel: 0064/21/184-7474 (0172/2578817) akling@illbruck-Challenge.com http://media.illbruck-Challenge.de http://www.illbruck.com Southampton, England, January 3, 2001 2115 GMT Djuice In The Land Of Hope Finish time: djuice: 23:16:49 GMT djuice finished on the disappointing sixth place, not having the chance to improve their performance from the last two legs. From the beginning on they were stricken with bad luck as their bow section started to fill with water shortly after the start. In their latest email while racing, skipper Knut Frostad admitted speed problems, but that they are fully motivated to use the long stopover in Auckland to take a hand on that. Erle Williams was taken off the boat at the finishing line and taken to Hospital as he was suffering from suspected intestinal problems. Tests are being carried out now and djuice will issue a report later today. Knut Frostad was pretty down when hitting the dock. His first words were: "We are disappointed. It was a hard leg for us. We had a speed problem jib reaching and so we got left behind all the time and that was frustrating. We have already decided we are going to start training on Sunday morning with the two boats. We have proven before that we can be fast. We were fast all the way to Hobart. We just went the wrong way and that happens.” Elapsed time for leg 3 in the Volvo Ocean Race ASSA ABLOY: 008d 11h 50m 42s Amer Sports One: 008d 13h 39m 06s Tyco: 008d 14h 48m 39s Illbruck: 008d 14h 52m 41s News Corp: 008d 14h 54m 54s Djuice: 008d 17h 46m 49s Southampton, England, January 3, 2002 2200 GMT Land of Hope In Reach For djuice Djuice is screaming with planning speed toward the finish. Amer Sports Too is advancing with similar speed towards Cape Reinga just over 200 miles away. Southampton, England, January 3, 2001 2115 GMT Dramatic Finale For Tyco, illbruck and News Corp Finish time: Tyco: 20:18:39 GMT Illbruck: 20:22:41 GMT News Corp: 20:24:54 GMT In an extremely close finish the three yachts Tyco, illbruck and News Corp fought for places three to five. Tyco decided for a more easterly route ten miles from the finish and split. illbruck faced the dilemma to decide whether to stick with index rival News Corp or to go and cover Tyco. They let Tyco loose and had to accept losing third place to her. Finishing third in his hometown was a great satisfaction for Kevin Shoebridge and his crew. Shortly later Jez Fanstone and the News Corp crew started to attack illbruck and managed to draw even with the green German yacht. Kostecki pulled out his Americas Cup match race skills and finally managed to secure fourth position when News Corp got stuck in less wind. Over the morning the harbour has filled with several thousand spectators and a fleet of boats welcomed the three yachts that have delivered them on of the closest finishes in the history of round the world racing. Elapsed time for leg 3 in the Volvo Ocean Race ASSA ABLOY: 008d 11h 50m 42s Amer Sports One: 008d 13h 39m 06s Tyco: 008d 14h 48m 39s Illbruck: 008d 14h 52m 41s News Corp: 008d 14h 54m 54s Southampton, England, January 3, 2002 Day 9 ASSA ABLOY First into Auckland! What a fantastic day for the kiwis on ASSA ABLOY, to win Leg 3 of the Volvo Ocean Race into Auckland. New Zealanders, Richard Mason and Stu Wilson were heroes along with the rest of the crew of ASSA ABLOY, to the early morning cheering crowd, as they entered Viaduct Basin, after they had crossed the finish line. It is even more remarkable, considering that Neal McDonald’s crew have been sailing most of this leg with at least one crew-member sick or injured. Jason Carrington and Guillermo Altadill, both developed suspected internal infections and Magnus Olsson took a bad fall not long after leaving Sydney, and injured his back. For Magnus, in spite of his injury, there was a double celebration on this great victory, his children were holding a banner at the dock saying, “Happy Birthday Daddy.” A further injury occurred to skipper Neal McDonald as they arrived at the dock, when fellow crew mate Mike Joubert opened a bottle of champagne and the cork caught Neal in the face! At the dock, Mark Rudiger said about their win, “We finally got a podium place, which was great. The best part was coming round the North Cape and still not seeing [Grant] Dalton [Amer Sports One] – that was our biggest worry, that he would catch us up.” Roger Nilson on Amer Sports One was resigned to their second place earlier, and felt that ASSA ABLOY deserved their first position, “Even if we cut down the lead on ASSA ABLOY to 16 miles we feel, she will be more or less impossible to pass, as a front from the west is coming tonight with strong northwesterlies. They should benefit ASSA ABLOY first and she deserves her win after a perfectly sailed leg.” For McDonald and crew, however, this has been a great leg, having also led the fleet into Hobart for the pit stop. On leaving Tasmania they took a more northerly route across the Tasman Sea and only lost the lead once, when they had a problem with their spinnaker. Their afterguard had to really work hard yesterday, to keep the boat moving through the patches of light air into the next band of breeze, as the Volvo Ocean Race fleet came within sight of Cape Reinga, the most northern tip of New Zealand. ASSA ABLOY was the first boat to make a landfall and once again took the most northerly route around the top of North Island, whereas the second boat Amer Sports One had an agonisingly hard time, tacking backwards and forwards at Cape Reinga against 3.5 knots of tide. From Cape Reinga, both ASSA ABLOY and Amer Sports One could only watch the fleet close up on them from behind at speed. Mark Christensen from illbruck predicted the change to lighter weather yesterday, “Not looking forward to a drift off down the New Zealand coast but it will happen, so positions may change yet.” Roger Nilson wrote from Amer Sports One, “… we lost the nice northwesterly wind almost totally, four miles southwest from Cape Reinga and decided to go close to the corner, as there seemed to be more wind there then offshore. Had the bad luck to hit foul tide at its worst moment, full moon and max setting 3,5 kts against us. With only six knots of wind straight on the nose from northeast it looked bad. Hardly made any progress over ground, in spite of sailing as close as we dared, right into the infamous rocks just northwest of Reinga.” After Amer Sports One turned south towards Auckland at the next point, he continued, “As we hoist the spinnaker right now at North Cape, the northeast corner of New Zealand, we cannot see ASSA ABLOY ahead or illbruck behind at Cape Reinga. Hopefully illbruck, News Corp and Tyco also will have to pay their duty getting around that tricky corner [Reinga].” Illbruck, News Corp and Tyco closed on the fleet as they headed in towards North Island. Having passed North Cape, Kevin Shoebridge reported that they were still enjoying very close racing with illbruck and News Corp and was well aware that the winner of this battle would get a good result, the loser would end up with fewer points. This left the overall points standings, crucially dependent on the outcome, “A fantastic last night as we slide down the North Island coast just passing the Cavalli Islands on our starboard side. It’s been a pretty exciting day here on the Tyco; we have made steady gains on illbruck and News Corp all day. The lighter conditions obviously more to our liking. I am looking at both of them on the radar screen; news is 0.7 of a mile ahead, and illbruck 1.7 miles, not a lot after nearly 2000 miles of racing.” “Plenty to play for here tonight, there is only 1.7 miles between a good result and a not very pleasing result. Tight racing, that’s for sure…… let’s hope there are some passing opportunities.” Steve Hayles from Tyco reported not long after, “It has been a long battle getting into these guys and the three boats could now definitely finish in any order, and with only 50 miles reindexing, this is shaping up to be one of the closest multiple boat finishes in the history of this race. Every move counts now and the boat that makes the fewest mistakes will probably come out on top.” “We are doing all that we can but there are 24 other sailors doing the same. It will be a nerve wracking few hours to the finish.” The three boats are still locked in a close duel with each other as they approach the finish, and are using every last ounce of effort. Any one of the three could still achieve third or fifth place. The next few hours will tell. Southampton, England, January 3, 2001 1745 GMT Perfect Victory For ASSA ABLOY Finish time: 17:20:42 GMT Three ill crewmembers could not stop ASSA ABLOY from taking the victory in the third leg of the Volvo Ocean Race in a convincing manner. After taking the Sydney - Hobart Race with line honours, the yacht continued on how they had finished, sped up and never looked back. The day before they reached New Zealand’s north coast, worrying news was sent back from the yacht. Three guys were reported ill and injured, with bowman Jason Carrington in his bunk under heavy medication. It seemed this just pushed the determination of the reindexing nine to win this leg. They all pulled together and stormed along to a tremendous victory. When crossing the finish line, a weather front went through and not long after Skipper Neal McDonald was thrown into the water by his team-mates, surrounded by a bunch of spectator boats. Even though it was raining heavily several hundred spectators welcomed ASSA ABLOY into Viaduct Basin. For Magnus Olsson the victory was sweetened further by his kids holding a banner, saying “Happy Birthday Daddy”. On arrival at the dock, skipper McDonald told the assembled media: “The most important part of it was the psychological advantage of being first into Hobart. It was a great team effort.” Elapsed time for leg 2 in the Volvo Ocean Race Boat name: 008d 11h 50m 42s January 3, 2002 1600 GMT AUCKLAND HERE WE COME! WHAT A PERFECT PLACE TO FINISH WELL. Barring a major upset, we should cross the finish line around 0700 Auckland time winners of leg three. This will be a big boost for us and I'm sure for all our sponsors and supporters. You have all stuck with us through thick and thin, and it feels really good to return with a result; two results counting Hobart. We have so much to be thankful for in the New Year and to look forward to. For this leg, we owe a special thanks to the shore crew for preparing ASSA ABLOY in perfect order. Without the perfect machine, one could never win this race. Our weather team headed up by George and Ken of Commanders Weather were spot on for the Hobart Race and how we should continue out of Hobart and our approach to New Zealand. All the support leading up to our departure from the ASSA ABLOY Sydney Team was a huge boost and we'll miss you all. I'm pretty tired so I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention some people, like Johad Barne from Semcon, Stephan Brandt our Team medical therapist, and others. So please know we all acknowledge your support and hope you share in the success. We haven't really changed our sailing style very much, we just didn't have any bad breaks, and were able to realize our potential that has always been there. We'll take this and build on it with the expectation of continuing up the ladder. Back on deck for the final gybes in. Hope we see some of you in the City of Sails. Cheers, Rudi Rudiger Team ASSA ABLOY Southampton, England, January 3, 2002 1600 GMT ASSA ABLOY Leads into the Hauraki Gulf Neal McDonald’s ASSA ABLOY led the Volvo Ocean Race fleet into the Hauraki Gulf and is now a very short distance away from the finishing line, currently in good breeze. With three sick and injured crew members on board, this performance has been remarkable, given some of the conditions that the boats have had to withstand on leg 3. Most important for the two New Zealanders on the boat, is to lead into Auckland, so Richard Mason and Stu Wilson will be anticipating the exciting moment when they cross the finish line on ASSA ABLOY. The nail-biting race between illbruck, News Corp and Tyco continues as they sail past Bream head, with illbruck marginally ahead of the duel going on between News Corp and Tyco. Amer Sports One is just entering the Hauraki Gulf. All the boats are currently sailing in the same gradient breeze of between 15 and 20 knots. djuice is just to the south of Cape Brett and Amer Sports Too is now less than 300 miles from Cape Reinga in 25 knots of wind. Southampton, England, January 3, 2002 1000 GMT Final Countdown for ASSA ABLOY ASSA ABLOY has passed Poor Knights Island and the Hauraki Golf is opening in front of them. As the breeze is blowing with steady 12 knots parallel to the New Zealand coast, they have to gybe downwind to achieve the fastest sailing angles. Amer Sports One is holding the distance to ASSA ABLOY as well as to her next rivals, the trio of illbruck, News Corp and Tyco. They are all trying hard to use the cover of darkness to find a way into third position as all three desperately want to avoid biting the fifth place lemon into Auckland. Meanwhile djuice has passed the two capes as well and is on her way across the Great Exhibition Bay in sixth position. In a recent email, they express their hopes of still finding a way to improve their position until finishing. Amer Sports Too is currently 380 miles from Cape Reinga, advancing with up to 20 knots in a strong westerly breeze. Southampton, England, January 3, 2002 0400 GMT Bay of Islands On Starboard Shortly after midnight the first five yachts have rounded North Cape, the second of New Zealand’s great landmarks. ASSA ABLOY, still holding a comfortable 20-mile lead has just passed Cavalli Island with the Bay of Islands coming into view. After their struggle with light wind at Cape Reinga, Grant Dalton’s Amer Sports One has recovered and leads the trio made up of illbruck, News Corp and Tyco with comfortable 31 miles along New Zealand’s coast. For djuice, Cape Reinga is rising above the horizon and Amer Sports Too is enjoying smooth sailing with the wind from their starboard quarter as the yacht sails along with steady 12 knots under the big spinnaker. Jason Carrington’s condition on ASSA ABLOY is vastly improved, the fever is gone and he eats and drinks properly again. Volvo Ocean Race Position Report, Day 9, 0358 GMT PS Yacht Latitude Longitude DTF CMG SMG TFHR DTL DTL-C ETA PO 1 AART 34 54.48S 173 58.12E 00128 132 09.3 187 0 +0 03 JAN 02 16:-- 15 2 AONE 34 41.56S 173 37.32E 00148 123 10.4 213 20 -8 03 JAN 02 19:-- 18 3 ILBK 34 26.36S 173 07.52E 00179 086 08.5 251 51 +0 03 JAN 02 22:-- 22 4 NEWS 34 25.88S 173 06.24E 00180 080 08.3 253 52 -2 03 JAN 02 22:-- 17 5 TYCO 34 25.36S 173 05.48E 00181 081 09.2 256 53 -2 03 JAN 02 23:-- 10 6 DJCE 34 33.96S 172 19.44E 00222 051 09.7 267 94 -1 04 JAN 02 04:-- 10 7 ATOO 36 38.12S 163 39.52E 00662 075 11.6 266 534 -8 07 JAN 02 06:-- 5 8 TSEB 34 24.20S 172 24.92E Retired - - - - - - 11 Copyright © 1996-2016 - SEGEL.DE