{"id":66364,"date":"2018-04-10T18:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T22:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=66364"},"modified":"2023-05-30T05:19:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T09:19:36","slug":"volvo-ocean-race-leg-7-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/racing\/volvo-ocean-race-leg-7-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo Ocean Race Leg 7 Concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Following damage to its mast track and then luff-to-leech tear in its mainsail, Mapfre persevered to finish Leg 7, collecting every point possible.<\/span>\n Pedro Martinez\/Volvo Ocean Race<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

The Spanish team Mapfre<\/a> crossed the finish line for Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race<\/a> in Itaja\u00ed, Brazil on Sunday morning, securing a fifth-place finish and collecting six points. The result hands the overall lead in the race to Dongfeng Race Team, who leapfrog over Mapfre with a one-point advantage on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a disappointing turn of events for skipper Xabi Fern\u00e1ndez and his team who had led the race since winning Leg 2. \u201cIt\u2019s been difficult for all of us,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cWe were expecting much better, but it\u2019s not the end of the world, it\u2019s not so bad. We were compromised this leg with technical problems, but it\u2019s nothing to do with the crew work or the trust we have in each other. We\u2019ve been going very well up to this moment and I\u2019m pretty sure we\u2019ll keep going well in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Mapfre was able to hang on to the leaders through the gales and hard miles of the Southern Ocean despite a damaged mast track, a torn mainsail at Cape Horn subsequently forced a 13-hour stop for repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That allowed the leading group to push ahead of a high-pressure ridge, which would eventually all but block Mapfre\u2019s progress north towards the finish and turn that 13-hour pit-stop into nearly a five-day deficit at the finish line. Mapfre crossed the finish line at 07:59 UTC, for an elapsed time for the leg of 21 days, 06:59:09.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five boats finished Leg 7, with Team Brunel taking the win and scoring maximum points, followed by Dongfeng Race Team and team AkzoNobel. On Saturday, Turn the Tide on Plastic finished fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two teams retired from the leg: Team SHK\/Scallywag following the loss of John Fisher overboard<\/a>; and Vestas 11th Hour Racing following a dismasting south of the Falkland Islands. Both teams are now delivering their boats to Itaja\u00ed, Brazil, with a view to being on the start line for Leg 8 on Sunday, 22 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Spanish team Mapfre crossed the finish line for Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race in Itaja\u00ed, Brazil on Sunday morning, securing a fifth-place finish and collecting six points. The result hands the overall lead in the race to Dongfeng Race Team, who leapfrog over Mapfre with a one-point advantage on the leaderboard. It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Volvo Ocean Race Media","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"20180410","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"159","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"The determination to preserve all points possible by finishing Leg 7 keeps Mapfre in the hunt. The race is on for crews recover for the April 22 start for Leg 8 to Newport, R.I.","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Volvo Ocean Race Leg 7 Concludes %%sep%% %%sitename%%","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"63HRCVV4OSS5M4TIBX4FEDPWSU","arc_website_url":"volvo-ocean-race-leg-7-concludes\/","custom_permalink":"","arc_subtype":"right-sidebar","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","ad_targeting":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"sponsored_url":"","social_share":true},"categories":[159],"tags":[949,178,304],"class_list":["post-66364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-mapfre","tag-sailboat-racing","tag-volvo-ocean-race"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}