The Spanish team won an excellent second place in Lisbon

The "Vestas 11th Hour Racing" has become the first leader of the Volvo Ocean Race after imposing itself on the goal located in the Tagus lisboeta and thus complete Stage 1, of 1,650 nautical miles that started from Alicante. The classification of the stage, as well as the general one, are as follows:

Stage 1 - Results - Stage Alicante - Lisbon
1. Vestas 11th Hour Racing - 14: 08.45 UTC
2. MAPHRE - 16: 42.30 UTC
3. Dongfeng Race Team - 16: 57: 48 UTC
4. team AkzoNobel - 18: 11: 56 UTC
5. Sun Hung Kai / Scallywag - 18: 57: 44 UTC
6. Team Brunel - 20: 29: 00 UTC
7. Turn the Tide on Plastic - 20: 36: 52 UTC

Volvo Ocean Race - General Classification
1. Vestas 11th Hour Racing - 8 points
2. MAPHRE - 6 points
3. Dongfeng Race Team - 5 points
4. team AkzoNobel - 4 points
5. Sun Hung Kai / Scallywag - 3 points
6. Team Brunel - 2 points
7. Turn the Tide on Plastic - 1 point

28 / 10 / 2017: "Vestas" winner of the Alicante- Lisbon of the Volvo

"Vestas" across the line of arrival

It was sung, the "Vestas" has won the Alicante- Lisbon in the Volvo Ocean Race. For the moment it is the only ship that has crossed the line of arrival... second it must enter into good logic "Mapfre" that has made a great stage and the bronze will be for "Dongfeng."

28 / 10 / 2017: At 13.55 "Vestas" is already 11 miles from Lisbon... "Mapfre" over 30 miles

AkzoNobel loses third place in favor of the Dongfeng

ULTIMA HORA: At 1.55 Spanish time the "Vestas" has Lisbon only 11.5 miles and sails at a speed of 10 knots. After him more than 20 miles "Mapfre" and third the "Dongfeng" to almost 35. In less than an hour the American ship must have crossed the line of arrival.

The "Vestas" domain continues in the Alicante- Lisbon of the Volvo Ocean Race... for its part "Mapfre" holds in the second square but already far from the Americans. The third position is now for the Dongfeng Race Team... this is over because the fleet is only 60 miles away.

1st Vestas 11th Hour Racing (United States) 58.80 miles from Lisbon (14.3 knots)
2nd Mapfre (Spain) at 93.80 miles (11.8 knots)
3rd Dongfeng Race Team (China) at 113.80 miles (11.2 knots)
4th Team AkzoNobel (Netherlands) 116.40 miles (11.0 knots)
5th Team Sun Hung Kai (Hong Kong) at 132.00 miles (9.4 knots)
6th Team Brunel (Netherlands) at 148,60.40 miles (10.2 knots)
7th Tum The Tide on Plastic (United Kingdom) at 149.10 miles (10.3 knots)

27 / 10 / 2017: "Vestas" more and more outstanding already very close to Lisbon in the Volvo

The Americans have almost heard the fades of the high Lisbon... 170 miles away!

The distances continue to increase into the head and tail of the Volvo in its sailing to the Portuguese capital: they already separate 66 miles to "Vestas" from "Tum The Tide on Plastic" which is the new red lighthouse. "Mapfre" continues to fight, but his goal now at this stage is to keep the second square... except miracle "Vestas" must win. That's how it is at 10: 00.

1st Vestas 11th Hour Racing (United States) 171.20 miles from Lisbon (10.7 knots)
2nd Mapfre (Spain) to 199.10 miles (10.5 knots)
3rd Team AkzoNobel (Netherlands) at 214.90 miles (10.2 knots)
4th Dongfeng Race Team (China) at 215.20 miles (10.2 knots)
5th Team Sun Hung Kai (Hong Kong) 228.40 miles (10.1 knots)
6th Team Brunel (Netherlands) at 236.40 miles (10.3 knots)
7th Tum The Tide on Plastic (United Kingdom) at 237.00 miles (10.6 knots)

26 / 10 / 2017: The Volvo with "Vestas" of leader is only 231 miles from Lisbon

If nothing strange happens the "Vestas" will take the Alicante- Lisbon

The fleet is already very close to Lisbon with "Vestas" leader 231 miles from the line of arrival... the last is "Tum The Tide on Plastic" to just over 291. The speed of the ships between the slowest at this time, the "Vestas" at 9.5 knots and the "Dongfeng" at 13.9. The ships will probably be in Portugal today, or at worst in the morning.

1st Vestas 11th Hour Racing (United States) 231.20 miles from Lisbon (9.5 knots)
2nd Mapfre (Spain) at 252.90 miles (12.5 knots)
3rd Team AkzoNobel (Netherlands) at 271.90 miles (13.5 knots)
4th Dongfeng Race Team (China) at 272.20 miles (14.2 knots)
5th Team Sun Hung Kai (Hong Kong) at 279.60 miles (12.9 knots)
6th Tum The Tide on Plastic (United Kingdom) at 291.40 miles (14.6 knots)
7th Team Brunel (Netherlands) at 291.40 miles (13.7 knots)

26 / 10 / 2017: "Vestas" increases its advantage and is already 450 miles from Lisbon on the Volvo

The race head is already 450 miles from Lisbon

At 11: 00 p.m., "Mapfre" has recovered the second position and is just over 17 miles from the "Vestas..." the wind has increased and the fleet has stretched as the "Team Brunel" that marches last is more than 43 miles from the leader. This is the current situation:

1st Vestas 11th Hour Racing (United States) 515.20 miles from Lisbon (15.6 knots)
2nd Mapfre (Spain) at 468,60.20 miles (10.29knots)
3rd Team AkzoNobel (Netherlands) at 470.70 miles (12.6 knots)
4th Dongfeng Race Team (China) at 481.90 miles (12.3 knots)
5th Team Sun Hung Kai (Hong Kong) at 482.80 miles (7.5 knots)
6th Tum The Tide on Plastic (United Kingdom) at 492.20 miles (11.4 knots)
7th Team Brunel (Netherlands) at 494.80 miles (10.5 knots)

26 / 10 / 2017: 515 miles from Lisbon "Team AkzoNobel" advances the "Mapfre" in the Volvo

Again the wind favors the tail of the race and the regrouping is served in the middle of the afternoon

The main novelty at the edge of the five o'clock Thursday afternoon is that the Spanish ship is now in third position, following the unbeatable "Vestas" and the Dutch "Team AkzoNobel." Between the first and second 9 nautical miles... while "Mapfre" is 13.6 from the leader and 528.80 miles from the arrival in Lisbon. The fleet that is motivated to receive more wind intensity in the tail is regrouping... it is worth the data that from first to last there are now 25 miles, just over three that this morning. The fastest the last two: "Team Sun Hung Kaui" and "Team Brunel" to 20.7 knots of vileness, just over five than "Vestas."

1st Vestas 11th Hour Racing (United States) 451.20 miles from Lisbon (15.6 knots)
2nd Mapfre (Spain) at 524.20 miles (15.2 knots)
3rd Team AkzoNobel (Netherlands) 528.80 miles (19.9 knots)
4th Dongfeng Race Team (China) at 533.60 miles (19.3 knots)
5th Team Sun Hung Kai (Hong Kong) at 539.90 miles (20.1 knots)
6th Team Brunel (Netherlands) at 540.30 miles (20.7 knots)
7th Tum The Tide on Plastic (United Kingdom) at 542.40 miles (20.7 knots)

26 / 10 / 2017: The Volvo reaches Porto Santo maintaining the positions of the fleet

The Chinese with 20.9 are the fastest

The only variation in the first ocean race of the Volvo Ocean Race, the Alicante- Lisbon, is that the fleet is sailing more quickly and that it has stretched for it something... but nothing decisive or much less. On the other hand, the positions are held on a steady basis, with "Vestas" in the head and "Mapfre" somewhat later: 13.4 miles. The Spanish ship has the Dutch of the "Team Akzo Nobel" stuck to its stern... only 1.8 miles! This is the classification of this stage first thing today when the Americans are about 600 miles from the Portuguese capital.

1st Vestas 11th Hour Racing (United States) 615.30 miles from Lisbon (18.8 knots)
2nd Mapfre (Spain) at 628.70 miles (19.5 knots)
3rd Team AkzoNobel (Netherlands) at 630.40 miles (18.1 knots)
4th Dongfeng Race Team (China) at 642.00 miles (20.9 knots)
5th Team Sun Hung Kai (Hong Kong) at 647.80 miles (19.2 knots)
6th Team Brunel (Netherlands) at 650.30 miles (17.2 knots)
7th Tum The Tide on Plastic (United Kingdom) at 653.30 miles (15.1 knots)

25 / 10 / 2017: "Vestas" is already 850 miles from Lisbon... and only 30 miles separate from the last in the Volvo

In the absence of more than 850 miles, from the first to the last less than 30 miles...

The wind has risen from the last control, but being far from optimal, the ships sail around the 10 knots, being the fastest at the moment the "Team Sun Hung Jai" with 11 knots, and the slowest the Spanish "Mapfre" with a speed of 9.8 knots. "Vestas" keeps the lead, but with "Mapfre" very close, even though the Americans have managed to relegate them to 6.3 miles, but we talk about limited distances when they still have between 850 and 880 miles to the fleet to reach the line of arrival in Lisbon. That's how it is right now:

1st Vestas 11th Hour Racing (United States) 850,90 miles from Lisbon (9.9 knots)
2nd Mapfre (Spain) at 857.10 miles (9.8 knots)
3rd Team AkzoNobel (Netherlands) at 865.90 miles (10.4 knots)
4th Dongfeng Race Team (China) at 878.20 miles (10.8 knots)
5th Team Sun Hung Kai (Hong Kong) at 879.00 miles (11.0 knots)
6th Team Brunel (Netherlands) at 879.60 miles (10.7 knots)
7th Tum The Tide on Plastic (United Kingdom) at 880.20 miles (10.8 knots)

24 / 10 / 2017: "Vestas" is calm and "Mapfre" is already very close in the Volvo

Mapfre is the fastest and in half an hour will reach the leader

The first ocean stage of the Volvo Ocean Race continues with a similar distribution of positions... but now Mapfre is the fastest when sailing at 6.8 knots and is about to reach the leader, to the "Vestas 11th Hour Racing" to which it has less than four nautical miles: 3.7. In the third place it holds the "Team AkzoNobel" which is also almost stopped sailing at 3.2 knots and which is 12.9 miles from the head. The rest of the positions are as follows: "Team Sun Hung Kai" (2.3 and 26.8 miles), "Dongfeng Race Team" (1.6 and 29.2), "Tum The Tide on Plastic" (3.1 and 29.3) and finally the "Team Brunel" that sails only 1.8 knots and is 30.7 miles from the "Vestas."

24 / 10 / 2017: More wind for the tail and in San Vicente the fleet of the Volvo is grouped

He continues to command "Vestas" but with "Mapfre" on his heels on Tuesday morning

The wind has fallen in intensity in the first hour of Tuesday, and while the lead is still for "Vestas 11th Hour Racing" that currently sails to 13.4 knots, the fact is that the fleet marches grouped and the chasing group, headed by "Mapfre" that sails to 15.9 knots is being put on it. There are only 19.2 miles between them.The third in discord remains "Team AkzoNobel" with a speed similar to the Spanish boat: 15.8 knots and behind "the reds" 5.5 miles only. Below are "Team Sun Hung Kai" (sails at 16.3 knots and is 29.4 miles from the leader), "Donfeng Race Team" (16.2 and 31.4 miles), "Team Brunel" (16.8 and 32.8 miles) and closes the fleet the "Turn The Tide on Plastic" which is the fastest as it sails at almost 18 knots and is only 33.8 miles already from the "Vestas." So he fights titanic in the fleet... that have a visual presence of his rivals.

23 / 10 / 2017: "Vestas" enters the Gulf of Cadiz at 7: 00 leading the Volvo fleet

This is the situation at 19.06 Spanish time, with the fleet exceeding the waters of the Strait

"Vestas 11th Hour Racing" is located about 900 miles from the line of arrival in Lisbon at the edge of the seven of the afternoon Spanish hour and has already entered the waters of the Gulf of Cadiz, having passed an hour ago the way of Punta Europa, at its stern continue by this order "Team AzkoNobel," that while until noon it was only 6 miles away, it has doubled this disadvantage, being the third in discord the "Mafre" to some 21 miles, being the fourth square for the "Sun Hung Kai," as it is on the way to the Spanish ship (very close to these three miles). The last three ships of the fleet, by this order are currently "Turn the Tide on Plastic," "Team Brunel" and "Dongfeng Race Team," the latter about 29 miles from the head.