Saturday's Guangzhou's In-Port race brought Victory for Mapfre in a convincing manner. They crossed the Start among the first correct starting boats, build an advantage on the first leg and never looked back, sailing a perfect race.
Two teams, too eager to have a flashing start, were called back, Dongfeng and SunHungKai. Dongfeng, in stead making a good restart, got herself entangled in the mooring line of the startline marker and lost too much time to be any better than last.
SunHungKai, however managed to sail a proper race and ended fourth.
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| fierce battle in midfield Guangzhou In-Port race |
The show was stolen however by Brunel and AkzoNobel, the 2 Dutch teams. They sailed close together on 2 and 3rd place for most of the race. Changing positions several times, by sailing a little different from each other. In the end however, it was Brunel that made the decisive move and got the runner-up place with AkzoNobel the last Podium place.
Now the Boats will sail on their own back to Hong Kong for the Start of Leg 6 on Wednesday 7 February at 500 UTC.
