LAST NEWS
Xabi: “We always have to think about how to improve, how to give more and how to try do everything better than our opponent”
He has a good overall picture of the whole MAPFRE campaign. Supported by each and every one of his team, we speak with the skipper, the boss, the leader (though he does not like to be called like that).
Xabi is back!
Following his participation in the America’s Cup our skipper is back and fully into the daily team routine
So how did you discover the Volvo Ocean Race?
Latin and anglo-saxon, twenty, thirty, forty and fifty somethings, they are an extremely diverse mix; joined together for one passion: the Volvo Ocean Race.
The Under-30 vision
We spoke to Willy Altadill, one of MAPFRE’s Under-30s.
MAPFRE begins their second offshore training session to Sanxenxo
Just two days after getting back on the water following the breakage of their mast (on 30th March), the VO65 MAPFRE begins their second offshore training session from Lisbon, heading out to the Atlantic Ocean and onto Sanxenxo
MAPFRE’s VO65 back on the water in Lisbon
After 15 intense days’ work at the Volvo Ocean Race Boatyard in Lisbon, following their dismasting in Galicia on 31st March, a new mast has been fitted and is ready for all-weather testing