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Photo : C.Borlenghi / Sea&See.itVOLVO OCEAN RACE / Baltimore
News Corp Wins Leg Six
illbruck only fourth
jeudi 18 avril 2002 –
The sweetest imaginable birthday present was handed this morning to News Corp’s campaign director and former co-skipper Ross Field : Victory in leg six of the Volvo Ocean Race from Miami to Baltimore. After managing the early split from the second group, News Corp together with Amer Sports One, ASSA ABLOY and illbruck took over the lead from illbruck two days ago and stayed on top until the finish. In the Chesapeake Bay they had to defend themselves from several attacks, mainly from Amer Sports One who, after the disappointing results on the last two legs were keen to add victory to their second places from the earlier legs. Another second place on this leg will please skipper Grant Dalton.
Illbruck has to accept fourth place for the second time after leg three into Auckland. Still their performance is formidable with One-One-Four-One-Two-Four the benchmark for all the other boats. ASSA ABLOY has shown consistency over the last legs and has kept their overall second position in the fleet with the third place in this leg. The fight for overall second and third will intensify as three yachts are separated by just three points.
Volvo Ocean Race Position Report, Day 5, 0710 GMT
PS Yacht Latitude Longitude DTF CMG SMG TFHR DTL DTL-C ETA PO
5 TSEB 38 51.44N 076 24.24W 28 3 6.9 184 28 -34 18/04/02 10:58 21
6 TYCO 38 19.32N 076 18.16W 61 339 6 174 61 -33 18/04/02 15:42 27
7 ATOO 38 18.36N 076 18.20W 62 337 5.4 189 62 -32 18/04/02 15:49 10
8 DJCE 38 18.12N 076 17.68W 62 338 6.2 191 62 -33 18/04/02 15:52 20
Overall position after five legs pending protests
PS Yacht Leg 3 points Arrival Time Elapsed Time Combined Time PO Overall Pos.
1 NEWS 8 18 APR 02 06:12:32 003d 13h 12m 32s 110d 03h 43m 50s 31 4
2 AONE 7 18 APR 02 06:38:48 003d 13h 38m 48s 107d 19h 07m 37s 32 3
3 AART 6 18 APR 02 06:58:44 003d 13h 58m 44s 110d 22h 14m 48s 34 2
4 ILBK 5 18 APR 02 07:01:44 003d 14h 01m 44s 106d 20h 57m 14s 41 1
Leaderboard
PS Yacht Points
1 illbruck 41
2 ASSA ABLOY 34
3 Amer Sports One 32
4 News Corp 31
5 Tyco 27
6 SEB 21
7 DJCE 20
8 Amer Sports Too 10
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The Volvo Ocean Race fleet at the restart from Miami
©Richard Langdon/Ocean Images
