Barcelona World Race - What's cooking for the Straits?

7:13 PM Tue 8 Feb 2011 GMT

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Barcelona World Race - As Virbrac Paprec 3 crossed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin this morning at around 1010hrs UTC, the leading French pair were moving at more modest speeds seeing their record lead ebbing again as the chasing trio catch up steady miles. For Jean-Pierre Dick and Lo?ck Peyron they are simply at the mercy of the more benign conditions as they transit the second Australian safety barrier, but the leading team have shed one hundred miles to the pursuing trinity,MAPFRE, Estrella Damm and Groupe Bel since yesterday. But 100 miles may be an unavoidable daily expenditure in these ...

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