Barcelona World Race fleet facing brutal conditions

6:38 PM Thu 7 Apr 2011 GMT

'To?o Piris and Pachi Rivero, Renault Z.E.' Patrick Thierry / Barcelona World Race

Barcelona World Race day 102. Renault Z.E and are expected to break the finish line off Barcelona between 0700hrs and 1000hrs local time Friday. At the time of publication, they had less than 100 miles of Mediterranean between them, the finish line and third place. Childhood friends who met at the age of seven or eight in Santander, the duo have been enduring a final slow sub-five knots drift northwards since the Balearics in only light breezes, covering only 20 miles this afternoon. It is a startling contrast to the brutal conditions which were encountered by Estrella Damm in the ...

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