Barcelona World Race 2007 www.barcelonaworldrace.com - Übersicht Friday 7th December 2007 HUGO BOSS (GBR) breaks 24 hour record in Barcelona World Race One year ago, Alex Thomson was being rescued from his sinking boat in the Southern Ocean. 12 months on, he has set a new 24 hour distance world record... British sailor Alex Thomson and his co-skipper Andrew Cape have broken the 24 hour distance record for a 60 foot monohull yacht. Competing in the Barcelona World Race aboard HUGO BOSS, the pair covered 499.22 miles nautical miles (nm) between 11.15 and 11.15 GMT from 6th-7th December, at an average speed of 20.8 knots. Thomson already holds the 24 hour distance record for a single-handed sailor, having covered 468.72 nautical miles in a day on his previous yacht, which he lost in the Southern Ocean last year. Foto: www.alexthomsonracing.com/ "It's a great feeling to have set a new world record," commented an elated Alex Thomson this morning. "When I broke the record on my last boat in 2003, the average wind speed was 35 knots, compared to just 23 knots which we have experienced over the past 24 hours. The new HUGO BOSS is a beast - there is no doubt about it! Four days ago we were 400 miles behind the leader and now we are just over 100 miles behind, so we are slowly reeling them in." HUGO BOSS is still going strong as she heads further south in the Southern Ocean and so the record may well be broken again in the coming hours. Thomson will soon reach the point where his previous boat suffered extreme structural keel failure during the Velux 5 Oceans race last November and he was forced to abandon ship. His situation could not be more different today. "It is very ironic to think that this time last year I had just arrived in Cape Town having been rescued by Mike Golding, and here I am a year later having set a new world record," said Thomson. "We have slowed the boat down now to take the pressure off a little. This is about winning a race and not about breaking records. We have a long way to go and we must keep the boat together if we are to be competitive." 26 days into the Barcelona World Race, HUGO BOSS is in fourth place, 125 nm behind leader PRB (FRA), 115 nm behind Paprec Virbac 2 (FRA), and just 9 nm behind Veolia Environnement (FRA). The fleet will spend the next two weeks in the Southern Ocean before passing through the Cook Straits between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The boats will then head south-east to Cape Horn and finally north up the Atlantic to the finish in Barcelona. The 25,000 mile course should take three months to complete, finishing in February 2008. - End - About Alex Thomson * Alex Thomson set a new 24hr solo monohull World Speed Record in December 2003 covering 468.7nm at an average speed of 19.5 knots during the Défi Atlantique, in which he finished 3rd. * At 25, Alex Thomson became the youngest skipper ever to win a round the world race - the Clipper Race 1998/99. * In October 2005 Alex Thomson stepped forward as the only skipper to confirm that he will be racing "3 in 3": 3 grueling round the worlds in as many years: the solo VELUX 5 Oceans in 2006, the inaugural two-handed Barcelona World Race 2007 and the blue riband Vendée Globe 2008. Unfortunately Alex's yacht HUGO BOSS suffered keel failure during the VELUX 5 Oceans, forcing him to abandon ship in the Southern Ocean and retire from the race. Alex has one dream: to be the first Briton to win the Vendée Globe. www.alexthomsonracing.com About HUGO BOSS Sailing complements the sponsorship portfolio of HUGO BOSS which already includes Formula 1 (Team McLaren Mercedes), IRL (Penske Racing), Tennis (Davis Cup), Golf, Boxing (Vladmir Klitschko) and Soccer. In sailing, HUGO BOSS gets another platform to demonstrate its fashion competence both on the boat with BOSS GREEN and shore-side with BOSS BLACK. BOSS GREEN provides Alex and the crew with highly functional and technical outfits for all possible weather conditions around the globe while BOSS BLACK will dress the crew for every celebration function in the smartest possible way. www.hugoboss-sailing.com Barcelona World Race - Two crew, non-stop Start: 11 November 2007, Barcelona Finish: February 2008, Barcelona A new two-handed non-stop round the world yacht race starting and finishing in Barcelona. For the first time this race, the brainchild of Dame Ellen MacArthur's Offshore Challenges Group, will see the world's best professional sailors from both solo and fully crewed disciplines competing against each other in teams of two. Racing over 25,000 miles over 3 months across the planet's most hostile and challenging oceans in high performance IMOCA Open 60 monohulls. Never before has a two-handed, non-stop round the world race been staged and there has never been a crewed non-stop round the world race in monohulls. This concept opens up a whole new world of possibilities in the sport of extreme offshore sailing. www.barcelonaworldrace.com E: info@barcelonaworldrace.com Vendée Globe - Around the world, single-handed, non-stop, without assistance Start: November 2008, Les Sables d'Olonne, France Finish: February 2009, Les Sables d'Olonne, France The blue riband event that launched Dame Ellen MacArthur to fame. 3 months around the world's oceanic wildernesses, alone, non-stop and without any outside assistance. Official supplier of legends since 1989 and run every 4 years since, this epic race has yet to be won by a non-Francophone. www.vendeeglobe.org Copyright © 1996-2016 - SEGEL.DE