Fabrice Amedeo has decided to abandon the Vendée Globe on December 12, 2020. -

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What suspense!

The gaps are being greatly reduced at the top of the Vendée Globe.

Charlie Dalin is still the leader but Thomas Rettant and Yannick Bestaven are back in his retro.

Behind the trio, the indestructible Jean Le Cam is back in the top 5. The head of the fleet, which has found a little wind, is heading towards Cape Leeuwin (the southern tip of Australia), second of the three mythical capes around the world, which should be crossed on Monday.

The classification at 9:00 a.m.

1. Charlie Dalin (Apivia) 13,823 miles from the finish

2. Thomas Rettant (LinkedOut) 73 miles behind the leader

3. Yannick Bestaven (Maître Coq IV) 82 miles behind the leader

4. Damien Seguin (Groupe Apicil) 215 miles behind the leader

5. Jean Le Cam (Yes we Cam!) 217 ​​miles behind the leader

Dalin eats his black bread

The leader is fed up!

Mired in the calm, he has seen all his pursuers eat him land in recent hours.

“I am not of a nature to complain but between the gust of wind that I am the only one to have caught myself and now the calm that I am the only one to take from myself, it begins to weigh on me a little.

That's enough !

Hope this is the last episode, he told radio Saturday morning.

Of course, yesterday, when I saw the others going at 19 knots and me at 3 knots… That means you're losing 16 miles per hour… And that's a bit hard to swallow.

But the road is long, the wheel will eventually turn.

He can console himself by telling himself that it is still he who leads the race, despite everything.

It's a crazy story.

@YannickBestaven returns to the height of the duo @ApiviaVoile / @ThomasRouillard, while others are in ambush a hundred miles.


After 40% of the course, is this # VG2020 experiencing a new start?

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- Vendée Globe (@VendeeGlobe) December 12, 2020

End of the trip for Amadeo

Vendée finished for Fabrice Amedeo.

The skipper of Newrest - Art & Fenêtres announced his retirement on Friday, on the 33rd day of the race, after the failure of his second on-board computer which deprived him of weather information.

“Following a new computer problem, I can no longer download the weather files, calculate the optimal trajectory, the fastest possible but also sometimes the wisest possible.

It is possible to continue the old way, without information and thus cross the South Seas.

But our foil boats are devilish in strong winds, ”he explained.

Amedeo is expected to arrive in South Africa during the day.

The question of the week

Speaking of Amadeo… This week we're wondering why we saw serial autopilot failures in this Vendée… This is where it happens.

Beyou is motivated as best he can

This is good for morale.

Jérémie Beyou, former big favorite of the race who was forced to return to Les Sables at the start of the race, finally glued back to the tail of the fleet when passing the Cape of Good Hope, on the night from Friday to Saturday.

“I had a good day yesterday, I finally managed to get back to the peloton.

It feels good to see people around.

I just had Sébastien Destremau on the VHF, it was nice to talk to someone face to face too, he said at the 5:00 am radio session.

This is the goal I set myself before the start.

Before Bonne-Espérance, I wanted to link up with the front group.

First objective fulfilled.

It was important to me.

These are small victories, we must take advantage of them… ”

The next goal is to leave the small group behind and pick up the next one, the gateway to the top 20 of the ranking.

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