“You are all wonderful, and there is still a lot of racing to be done”
The President of MAPFRE, Antonio Huertas, sends a message on behalf of himself and all the employees of MAPFRE worldwide.
UPDATE: MAPFRE resumes racing
After an awesome job of coordination and repairs, MAPFRE has resumed racing at 0710 UTC today Friday. Thanks to all for your messages of support. We are all down there. We will update this info as soon as practicable. See more photos of this stop at the section...
MAPFRE suspends racing to undertake repairs close to Cape Horn
At 16:32:20 UTC today the Spanish boat informed the Volvo Ocean Race’s Race Control, that they had taken the decision to suspend racing six miles west of Cape Horn, to make repairs to the mast track, as well as to the main sail.
“Here we are again, day 2 of leg 7!”
Since the very start, the fight started again and I could see in the faces of everyone on board that it will be a tough leg, physically, mentally…
MAPFRE lead a spectacular start from Auckland
At 14:00 h local time in the City of Sails (02:00 am in Spain) MAPFRE began leg seven of the Volvo Ocean Race.
