Barcelona World Race leaders distancing themselves

8:19 AM Mon 21 Mar 2011 GMT

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Barcelona World Race leader Virbac-Paprec 3 have put another 20 miles between themselves and Mapfre over nine hours last night. Next to cross the Equator, Renault Z.E. in third have around 500 miles of southern hemisphere sailing left. Around 215 miles behind them, Estrella Damm and Neutrogena remain separated by just 18 miles. This morning Neutrogena had the speed edge, at 11.4 knots compared to 8.1 at 0500hrs (UTC), but overnight the Spanish team of Alex Pella and Pepe Ribes maintained higher averages over the compromised Neutrogena. The only boat to have covered over 300 miles in the past 24 ...

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