B00B00 310 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 No Camper cant be beaten for 2nd place overall now. 6 points clear and the inport race is worth 6 points and even last or DNF is still worth 1 point. EPIC....... Link to post Share on other sites
Adrianp 120 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Wahoo Awesome result for Camper given she's clearly not the fastest boat in the fleet. Well done to Marshy and the Groupama team! Link to post Share on other sites
Marshy 30 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 No Camper cant be beaten for 2nd place overall now. 6 points clear and the inport race is worth 6 points and even last or DNF is still worth 1 point. EPIC....... DSQ is worth None... Maybe we will see Ken's match racing style Link to post Share on other sites
Mothership 6 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Wahoo Awesome result for Camper given she's clearly not the fastest boat in the fleet. Well done to Marshy and the Groupama team! ^^ Link to post Share on other sites
floatsome 0 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Great job Camper! Congrats to G4!! They really nailed the vistory on the leg here to Auckland I think. Hard doing work today and following VOR, which was fustrating at times. What to do now, coverage has been excellent the last 9(?) months. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Great job Camper! Congrats to G4!! They really nailed the vistory on the leg here to Auckland I think.Hard doing work today and following VOR, which was fustrating at times. What to do now, coverage has been excellent the last 9(?) months. Mod 70s start Saturday night/Sunday morning with an Atlantic crossing. Link to post Share on other sites
Clipper 343 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 DSQ is worth None... Maybe we will see Ken's match racing style My style? Camper has a pretty good match racer on board I believe........ Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 GROUPAMA COMPLETE VICTORY IN CLOSEST EVER VOLVO OCEAN RACE AFTER EPIC EIGHT-MONTH JOURNEY Groupama crossed the finish line in the pitch black Galway night to secure a remarkable overall victory in their debut Volvo Ocean Race campaign and finally settle the closest contest in the event’s 39-year history. While CAMPER were celebrating victory in the ninth and final leg, Groupama skipper Franck Cammas led his team home in second place to take an unassailable 24-point lead with just one in-port race to go. Cammas, the 39-year-old Frenchman, threw his arms up and pumped his fists in the air while tens of thousands of fans gathered on the dock of Galway Bay to roar home the team -- including Irishman Damian Foxall -- to a remarkable victory in their first appearance in the race. For CAMPER, notching up their first leg win of the race was a longed-for achievement and it all but guarantees they will finish second overall. PUMA, in third place on the night, will finish behind them in third overall unless CAMPER somehow fail to complete Saturday’s In-Port Race and PUMA go on to win it. But the night belonged to Groupama as they reaped the benefits of exhaustive preparation and more than eight months of the most extreme ocean racing. Not since Lionel Péan skippered L’Esprit d’Equipe to victory in 1985-86 has a French team tasted glory in sailing’s toughest challenge. "This is an incredible moment for me," Cammas said. "It was always my dream just to participate in this race. The first book I ever read was about the Whitbread. It has been an incredible day for me and it hasn't sunk in yet. "Without any doubt this is the best (thing I've done). This is the longest and the hardest event to win. It started badly but every one of us raised our level." The team overcame a stream of challenges during the epic race including a testing first leg, disappointing results in the early in-port races and the loss of their mast in Leg 5. Despite the setbacks, Cammas and his crew continued to improve, pulling back from a 28-point deficit after the Sanya Haitang Bay In-Port Race to take their first offshore win in Leg 4, arriving into Auckland first despite the discovery of a serious crack in the hull within 100 miles of the line. They finally usurped long-term race leaders Telefónica from the top of the standings at the end of Leg 7. Subsequent wins in the Oeiras In-Port Race in Lisbon, Leg 8 from Lisbon to Lorient and the Bretagne In-Port Race only served to cement their position at the top of the leaderboard and bolster the team’s confidence heading into the final two scoring opportunities. Despite going into the final 550 nautical mile leg from Lorient to Lisbon with a 25-point margin over second-placed PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG, overall victory was far from guaranteed as the six boats set sail from Groupama’s home port of Lorient bound for Galway. With early race leaders Telefónica looking to recover the form that saw them win the first three offshore legs, PUMA wanting to better their second-place overall finish in the 2008-09 race and CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand itching to score their first offshore win, the pressure was on the frontrunners from the off. But with breezy reaching forecast for the sprint out of the Bay of Biscay and across the Celtic Sea, conditions in which the team’s Volvo Open 70 Groupama 4 excels, they were always going to be a force to be reckoned with. Groupama only needed to finish fourth to secure overall victory but they went two better, seeing off challenges through wild conditions in the English Channel and around the iconic Fastnet Rock, to finish second across the line at 00:49:11 UTC, seven minutes behind CAMPER, and seal their place in the history books as race winners. "Even before we sarted this last leg I knew we were going to win it," CAMPER skipper Chris Nicholson said. " It's been a privilege and I'm proud to have been part of this team. I look at what everyone does day in day out and I think this is the sailing team’s way of saying thank you." PUMA finished in third at 00:55:01 UTC ahead of Team Telefónica, who finished at 00:59:33 UTC. At 0200 UTC Sanya were around 10 miles from the line, with a narrow lead over Abu Dhabi. Six points will be up for grabs for first place, five for second, four for third and so on when the final in-port race of the epic 39,000 nautical mile ocean race takes place on July 7. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 And just look at how well the Farr boats did in this leg. I can't wait for the next race. that will be epic entertainment like watching grass grow Link to post Share on other sites
B00B00 310 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 And just look at how well the Farr boats did in this leg. I can't wait for the next race. that will be epic entertainment like watching grass grow There is always one..... Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 booboo, you're new avatar is crazy sh*t! How long does it run before it repeats? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 And just look at how well the Farr boats did in this leg. I can't wait for the next race. that will be epic entertainment like watching grass grow According to the Volvo site Azzam might have some sort of keel problem. Don't forget Azzam and Camper have the same number of leg wins! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 OK humble pie time. I've been underwhelmed by Campers performance (bummed out is probably a better description) and at different times been rude about the boat and, I sadly confess, the Aussie factor. Anyhoooooo...after today all is forgiven at my end. You are all champion blokes who never gave up fighting and I'm extra super impressed how hard you kept pushing despite all the issues faced to get to second overall. In some respects getting second despite all the challenges is probably more commendable / admirable than what you might have acheived with a faster boat that didn't break. I can't wait until the next race and you are such fine fellows that I bequeath my daughter to the first born son of one of you (no they can't share her)....even you good barstard Aussies! Yipeeeeeeee! Link to post Share on other sites
Mothership 6 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 And just look at how well the Farr boats did in this leg. I can't wait for the next race. that will be epic entertainment like watching grass grow There is always one..... This is crew.org. There's way more than one, sadly. Camper have all but finished 2nd, so they beat four other boats. Their boat is slow? Surely that makes it even more of an achievement. Haven't seen anyone here do better. Well done, guys. Ocean racing is usually brutal, and doing months of it even more so. Link to post Share on other sites
Grinna 2 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I've been terribly disappointed watching the race tracker and seeing time and again Camper being overhauled on a reach after placing the boat in a good position but not having the raw speed that some of the other boats seem to have. The guys on Camper have worked really hard to go the right way and to push the boat as hard as they could but apparently some of the other boats just have a speed edge on them. To finish the race in 2nd is no mean feat and they have been there or thereabouts on just about every leg. To have the longest 24 hour run is a huge achievement, especially considering the apparent weakness on the reaching legs. I'm thrilled they've finally won a leg, they've had some tough breaks and they deserve to have a result that reflects the effort they've put in. Link to post Share on other sites
B00B00 310 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 booboo, you're new avatar is crazy sh*t! How long does it run before it repeats? I don't really know, it gives me a headache if I look at it that long! I got tired of getting stabbed in the eye....... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I was impressed at how they turned around in Sth America and kept racing even though they were toast in that leg. In the end it paid off, as those points were valuable. Link to post Share on other sites
Atom Ant 0 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Gotta say the Camper boys have a shitload of stickability. So when you think about it, the two boats that had majors but kept going came first & second. How it should be really. I would have been really fucked off if a boat that did a leg on a ship had won. There's a lesson in it for us somewhere... Link to post Share on other sites
ScottiE 174 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 They currently also lead the inport race on countback and they still need to beat Puma to secure it. Everyone's a winner! Link to post Share on other sites
rigger 47 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 keep hearing Camper is slow, but: go to http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/iwc24hsrun/rdc.html In 4 of 8 legs listed when I looked they had the fastest 24hr runs, and on 2 more legs they had the second fastest 24hr runs. Pretty good going Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.