Charlie Dalin and Pascal Bidegorry on board their brand new IMOCA MACIF Santé Prévoyance crossed the finish line of the 50th Rolex Fastnet Race at 20:31:26 BST this evening. In doing so she:
- Won the highly competitive IMOCA class by 4 minutes and 6 seconds ahead of Paprec Arkéa sailed by Yoann Richomme and Yann Elies. She was first in a field of 29 starters
- Won monohull line honours, ahead of race favourite Bryon Ehrhart’s 88ft Lucky
- Set a new monohull race record of 2 days 7 hours 16 minutes and 26 seconds for the new course to Cherbourg beating Skorpios’ 2021 time of 2 days 8 hours 33 minutes and 55 seconds, an improvement 1 hour 17 minutes 29 seconds
Impossibly close Ocean Fifty victory for Berry and Joubert
Earlier this evening Anglo-Frenchman Luke Berry and Antoine Joubert on Le Rire Medecin Lamotte crossed the Cherbourg finish at 19:59:04 to claim the title in the Ocean Fifty trimaran class. They had been locked in a match race with Viabilis, sailed by Pierre Quiroga and Justin Baradat since Saturday afternoon when the boats departed Cowes, winning the class by just 1 minute 26 seconds.
They arrived on the heels on Erik Maris’ MOD70 Zoulou, which crossed the line at 18:03:15 with a crew including multihull legend Loick Peyron and America’s Cup winner Thierry Fouchier.
