Barcelona World Race - Mapfre chasing down the leader

9:56 AM Fri 25 Feb 2011 GMT

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Barcelona World Race update . They have become increasingly tight over the past 24 hours but it was only today that Virbac-Paprec 3?s French co-skipper Lo?ck Peyron acknowledged that the speed race between the long time race leaders and their Spanish Olympic medal winning adversaries Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez would be an even one over coming days. MAPFRE have closed down nearly 150 miles on Virbac-Paprec 3 since the French duo restarted out of Wellington last Friday, but Peyron has pointed to an inherent advantage granted to the MAPFRE speedsters who, as the chasing boat, have had stronger wind ...

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