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TUESDAY, APRIL 12TH, 2011 - 17H00
Banque Populaire sets its sailing programme until 2012
Ship-owner of the Maxi Banque Populaire V, of a Figaro Bénéteau, Official Partner of the French Sailing Federation, the French Sailing Olympic Team, of the Eric Tabarly Association and of the CNOSF (National Committee of French Sports and Olympics), Banque Populaire heads for 2012 with new projects. She will notably be present with an IMOCA monohull starting from the next Vendée Globe. Armel Le Cléac'h will be the skipper.
An historic partner in sailing for 22 years
Major player in offshore racing for 22 years, sport with which it shares the values ?of bravery and freedom, the Banque Populaire has developed 5 offshore multihulls with its Team and has always been among the leaders in this class. With the Maxi Banque Populaire V launched in 2008, it now owns the largest ocean racing trimaran ever built in the world (record holder of the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean and of the distance covered in 24h). Its involvement in the competition has been further affirmed in 2004 by entering the Figaro circuit with Jeanne Gregoire, a leading woman in its class, 5th in the French Offshore Racing Championship single-handed in 2010 .
It is with the same spirit of performance enhancement that it supports, since 2000, the French Sailing Federation and the French Sailing Olympic Team. In 2010, it has invested more broadly alongside the National Committee of French Sports and Olympics, the entire French Team for London 2012 Olympic Games and Annecy’s candidacy for the organization of the Olympic Winter Games of 2018.
Through all these initiatives, it shows its commitment to achievement and self-transcendence values through sports competition. Its involvement in sport has even grown since 2003 with a heritage side in participating, alongside the Eric Tabarly Association, in the restoration of the Pen Duick fleet and sharing it with the public.
A new project in the Team Banque Populaire
Banque Populaire today reaffirms its commitment in sport and sailing by presenting this next two years program.
As of next winter, the Maxi Banque Populaire V and her crew, led by a new skipper, will attempt the Jules Verne Trophy record, round the world race non-stop and unassisted. On the same route, but single-handed, Banque Populaire, which acquired the 60-foot Foncia monohull, will be present on the IMOCA circuit and will participate in the next Vendée Globe. For this challenge, Banque Populaire has chosen one of the best sailors in the category, second in the last edition and eager to succeed his second round the world solo, nonstop and unassisted: Armel Le Cléac'h. By then, his program will include the Transat Jacques Vabre 2011 and several other competitions. The responsibility of the new racing team made ?of the Maxi Trimaran Banque Populaire V, the 60-foot monohull and of the Figaro Banque Populaire, is entrusted to Ronan Lucas, appointed Director of the Team Banque Populaire.
Always more action with the French Sailing Federation
Throughout France, Banque Populaire is involved with the French Sailing Federation to allow everyone, beginners or experts, from initiation to competition, to live and share its passion. In 2011-2012, as it has been the case for 11 years, it will thus co-finance the equipment needed by clubs, departmental committees and sailing leagues. It will accompany 9 France Championships, the French Olympic Week and broadly all the Federation activities. This dynamic is multiplied in regions thanks to the involvement of 20 regional Banque Populaire which accompany 22 leagues, 12 departmental committees and many regional or local initiatives for the last 10 years.
Banque Popualire has also decided to contribute to the development of new practices of this sport, responding to strong demand from young people, by embarking along the French Sailing Federation in its project of creating a French team of Fun Board. Antoine Albeau, sailor of the year 2010, will be the ambassador.
2012: An Olympic year for Banque Populaire
Involved in the Olympics alongside the whole French Sailing Team, Banque Populaire wished to particularly support two new ambassadors, in dinghies 4.70: Nicolas Charbonnier, Bronze Medal at the Beijing Olympics Game in 2008, 2nd in the senior World Championship in 2010 in Holland and his team-mate Jeremie Mion, Junior World Champion and European Champion (under 22) in 2009 and 2010.
They embody, as did the windsurfer Faustine Merret at the Olympics Games in Beijing, Banque Populaire’s support to the Team that will defend France in Weymouth during the London Olympics.
Beyond sailing, Banque Populaire will support every French athletes participating in the London Olympic Games. Under its agreements with the CNOSF, it will develop, during next winter, an operation so that every French people can express its support to French athletes in the spirit of sharing which it is especially attached to.
Programme of the projects
Monohull 60 'Banque Populaire:
- 2011
Late April: delivery of the boat in Lorient
Late June: Delivery of the new mast
June-July: training
. Artemis Challenge from August 6th to 13th
. Fastnet starting Sunday, August 14th
. Transat Jacques Vabre starting Sunday, October 30th
- 2012
. Transat in May
. Vendee Globe starting Sunday, November 11th
Maxi trimaran Banque Populaire V:
- 2011
. SNSM record from 17th to 21st June
. Rolex Fastnet Race starting Sunday, August 14th
. Jules Verne Trophy stand by period starting early November
Figaro Banque Populaire:
- 2011
. Solo Massif Marine. from March 17th to 29th
. Transat Bénodet-Martinique starting Sunday, April 10th
. SNSM record from 17th to 21st June
. Solitaire du Figaro starting July 31st
Excerpts from interviews
Chantal Petrachi,
Banque Populaire Communication Director
New challenges
"The Vendee Globe was the only major ocean race in which Banque Popualire had never participated. It was thus natural to enter this new challenge which carries human values to which Banque Populaire has always been committed: bravery, transcendence, the conquest spirit and adventure. For this new project we have chosen Armel Le Cléac'h, whose talent is recognized by all benefiting of an extensive experience on this type of boat. Second in the previous Vendee Globe, and in the Route du Rhum, his career is exemplary and shows its determination.
Our involvement in sailing at the top level also means a strengthened commitment with the Olympic Sailing Team and the future French Funboard Team and its formidable sailors. "
Armel Le Cléac'h,
skipper of the monohull 60 'People's Bank VI
A happy man
"I'm very happy, it's a nice surprise to integrate the Team Banque Populaire. This is one of the major sponsors in sailing. I just finished with a sponsor who supported with me for five years and I am very proud of having been selected. With all the skills carried by the Team around this incredible fleet, I arrive in ideal conditions."
My objectives : to win the Vendee Globe
"My objectives are clear: to participate in a comprehensive program with the ultimate goal of the Vendée Globe 2012-2013. For the 2011 season, I will sail training from
the beginning of June, then I will be attending the Artemis Challenge in August and the Fastnet. In November I'll be at the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre, for which I have not yet selected my team mate, even if I have a small idea on the question. We are waiting to see if there the race will return, which would be e real "test bed" a year before the next Vendee Globe. In May 2012, I will do the Transat, the last major race before the Vendee Globe. "
The boat : one of the best
"I've never sailed on this particular monohull, but it was built by Michel Desjoyeaux, and by saying this, it already means everything. I attended the launch, and this is the latest IMOCA launched. It's a great boat to be on at the start of the Vendée Globe, we cannot expect better. "
The Vendee Globe: The Holy Grail
"This will be my second participation and I hope to do even better than in 2008, that is to say 1st! It is a very ambitious sporting project and two intense years are ahead, I'm in the same calendar as with my previous sponsor and that suits me fine. "
Ronan Lucas
Director of the Team Banque Populaire
Playing synergies
"We will play the synergies and put the team expertise, including electronic aspects, composite, computer, logistical and administrative projects, to the benefit of all the boat of the Banque Populaire’s fleet, from the Figaro to the Maxi, including of course our future 60 ' monohull. The goal is to position the various teams and their skippers in the best conditions to achieve their sporting objectives. The boats’ gains and developments can be useful to the entire fleet. "
Women and men serving in the fleet
"In response to the fleet development and performance objectives, I am surrounded by the Team in place for 7 years that continues and has expanded this winter with a new technical director and referring during the Trophée Jules Verne, Pierre-Emmanuel Hérissé. "PE", as we all call him, in charge of the technical coordination between the different projects, will also have an eye on the 60 ' monohull as it has a long experience of these boats. The Team’s added value lies in its experience over many years in the development and construction of high performance boats such as the trimaran 60 feet Banque Populaire IV and the Maxi Banque Populaire V. So today, we put our knowledge at the service of all our projects. Including that of our Research Department headed by Kevin Escoffier, who is currently working on the ballasts’s redistribution of the Monohull 60 'Banque Populaire, while ensuring the follow up on the Maxi’s repairs with Pierre-Yves Moreau, , « boat captain », for her next attempt on the Jules Verne Trophy. "
Description of Armel Le Cléac'h
Skipper of the monohull 60 'Banque Populaire
Borned : May 11, 1977 in Saint-Pol-de-Léon (Finistère)
Married, two children - Lives in La Forêt Fouesnant
"Fell in as Obelix in the magic potion," Armel Le Cléac'h been has immersed from childhood, like many of Morlaix, in the Bay currents, except that he quickly became very passionate of this sport, to the point og getting into competition, in Optimist, at 9 years old. Then, everything goes quickly and Armel integrates the Finistere Team, starts to be recognized and evolves to 420. He became a professional skipper in 1999, after winning the Challenge Espoir Crédit Agricole. For his early years in the Figaro circuit (there will be 7),which is known to reveal the great talents of offshore racing, Armel, nicknamed by his peers "The Jackal" for his incredible tenacity, shines pretty quickly with a 2nd place in 2000. Between two Figaro seasons, he won the Tour de France Sailing Race in 2001. In 2003,in Saint-Nazaire, he won a historic victory, 13 seconds before a certain Alain Gautier who then decided to entrust the helm of his 60-foot multihull Foncia. The same year he was crowned with a title of French Champion of Offshore Racing. In 2004, with his friend Nicolas Troussel, he won the 7th edition of the Lorient-St Barth.
After a capsize in the Transat Jacques Vabre 2005, Armel decided to leave the ORMA championship and announced his participation on the IMOCA circuit with a new partner, Brit Air, which will be giving him confidence for five years. In 2008, , he finished 2nd in the Vendee Globe, for his first appearance, behind Michel Desjoyeaux.
In 2010, he won the Transat AG2R and, with five legs already won on the Solitaire du Figaro in his achievement list, he accessed the much closed circle of double winners of the event. A few months later, he ascended the second step of the podium on the Route du Rhum.
It is not by chance if everything goes well for the skipper for the past few years. Tenacious, combative, competitor, this fan of sports devotes all his time to his passion, which has become his profession.
Extract from his achievement list :
2010
- Transat AG2R: 1st, double-handed with Fabien Delahaye
- Solitaire du Figaro: 1st overall, and winner of 3 out of 4 legs
- Route du Rhum: 2nd on the IMOCA Brit Air
2009 IMOCA Brit Air
- Vendée Globe: 2nd
2008 IMOCA Brit Air
- IMOCA World Champion
- Artemis Transat: 2nd
2007 IMOCA Brit Air
- Transat Jacques Vabre: 7th
2006 IMOCA Brit Air
- Route du Rhum: 4th
- Solitaire du Figaro: 4th
- Transat AG2R: 5th with Nicolas Troussel
2005
- Grand Prix ORMA: 4th of the Grand Prix de Lorient, 2nd of the Grand Prix de Fecamp
2nd in the Giraglia Rolex Cup, 4th of the IB Group Challenge
2004
- Transat AG2R: Winner double-handed with Nicolas Troussel on SCE Group - The Telegram
2003
- Solitaire Afflelou Le Figaro: 1st
- Winner of the France Solitaire Championship racing in 2003
2000
- Solitaire du Figaro: second overall and first rookie
Description of Ronan Lucas
Director of the Team Banque Populaire
Borned : 28th March 1972 in Gourin –
Married, two children - Lives in La Forêt Fouesnant
Ronan Lucas holds a key position within the Team Banque Populaire. Technical director since 2004, he is the manager of a team of twenty people. Breton pure strain, it is the age of seven, off the coast of Concarneau, that Ronan tasted the raw pleasure of sailing aboard an Optimist, and very quickly sailing becomes more than a passion for the young boy. A few years later, he gets his first sail in a regatta on a J24 and the question arises for him to incorporate a section of Sports Studies at Brest. "Get your baccalaureate first! " will say his parents who, however, let him go sailing to leisure. Located just off La Forêt Fouesnant Ronan is being offered some very good boarding which allow him enhancing its maritime skills. In 1993, he ran the famous selection Challenge Espoir Crédit Agricole. Ronan is not selected as the Figaro Bénéteau skipper but will make a decisive encounter in the person of Franck Cammas. The latter will then integrate him to his crew as number 1. They will sail together for ten consecutive years. At the same time, Ronan has the opportunity to live two Louis Vuitton Cup in New Zealand, first aboard 6th Sense and then Areva, to win the World Match Racing Tour with Bertrand Pacé and the sailing Tour de France with Jean-Pierre Dick. In the meanwhile, Ronan Lucas has not forgotten to complete that with a solid academic background in getting a Master of Private Law, a Master of Maritime Law and a few years later, a Master of Law and Sports Economics which he completed in 2002.
With his legal knowledge and an excellent reputation in the world of top-flight sailors, he joined the Team Banque Populaire in 2004. With the arrival of Pascal Bidégorry, Ronan takes advancement in overseeing the change of ex-trimaran "Bayer CropScience", and then by forming a solid and performing team, the Team Banque Populaire. Upon his arrival on the project, Ronan took part in every Grand Prix and was part of the crew on a few offshore races in which Banque Populaire IV participated. Technical director of the team, nothing has slipped out Ronan Lucas in the development and construction of the Maxi trimaran Banque Populaire V.
Extract from his achievements list:
2010
- Record Holder of the Mediterranean Crossing in 2010 on Banque Populaire V
2009
- World Champion of Offshore Records 2009
- Record Holder of the North Atlantic on Banque Populaire V
- Record Holder of the distance covered in 24 hours on Banque Populaire V
Other
- Winner of the Match Racing World Tour with Bertrand Pacé
- Winner of the Sailing Tour de France with Jean-Pierre Dick
- 2 participations in the America's Cup
- 3 ORMA World Champion titles (Class 60 'multihulls)
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