The Race (yachting race)

The Race was a round-the-world sailing race starting in Barcelona, Spain on December 31, 2000. It was the first ever non-stop, no-rules, no-limits, round-the-world sailing event, with a $2 million US prize. It was organized by Bruno Peyron.

The stated objectives of this race were:

• to unite the different maritime cultures of the world
• to gather together the world's premiere yachtsmen and women in a common event
• to promote creativity in ocean sailing
• to ally high technology and the environment
• to create the most spectacular and most prestigious fleet of offshore racers that sailing has ever seen

A second race was planned for 2004, but was cancelled amid controversy that Tracy Edwards had organized a competing event called Oryx Quest.

Results[edit]

The 2000–01 race was won by Club Med, skippered by Grant Dalton in 62d 6h 56' 33".

Pos	Boat	Crew	Country	Time
1	Club Med	Dalton, Grant Grant Dalton	New Zealand	62d 6h 56m 33s
2	Innovation Explorer	Peyron, Loick Loick Peyron & Skip Novak	France	64d 22h 32m 38s
3	Team Adventure	Lewis, Cam Cam Lewis	United States	82d 20h 21m 02s
4	Warta Polpharma	Paszke, Roman Roman Paszke	Poland	99d 12h 31m
5	Team Legato	Bullimore, Tony Tony Bullimore	Great Britain	104d 20h 52m
-	PlayStation	Fossett, Steve Steve Fossett	United States	DNF[a]
-	Team Philips	Goss, Pete Pete Goss	Great Britain	DNS

Legend: DNF – Did not finish; DNS – Did not start;