April, 3rd, 2006
London - Nice, Trapani, Marseille, Portimao, Fécamp
As announced on December 9th , 2005 and January 31st, 2006, the starting line of the Multi Cup 60¹ 2006 will be based in London, May 8th. The first event of this new championship is an open sea crew-race from London to Nice on a new course. The first competitors are expected to reach Nice, Alpes Maritimes, around may 15th.
5 boats have subscribed to the 2006 championship :
Banque Populaire (Pascal Bidegorry)
Géant (Michel Desjoyeaux)
Gitana 11 (Frédéric Le Peutrec)
Gitana 12 (Thierry Duprey du Vorsent)
Groupama (Franck Cammas)
The instructions of the first transoceanic race will be given on Friday April 7th 2006.
The Multi Cup 60¹ will be organized by the company Multi Cup SAS, specificly founded for this new event. Its CEO should be named in the next few days.
The name of the companies in charge of the electronic field and image production will be released to the media before April 21st.
Finally, the announcement of the index sponsors, that will support the Multi Cup 60¹, will occur very soon.
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