60ft tris start their engines

The Daily Sail spoke to designers Nigel Irens and Vincent Lauriot Prevost about mast breakages and structural failures

Fecamps

Back to Fecamps this week and all but three of the new 60ft tris will be taking part:

Fujifilm (Loïck Peyron)
Bonduelle (Jean Le Cam)
Groupama (Franck Cammas)
Banque Covefi (Bertrand de Broc)
Belgacom (Jean-Luc Nélias)
Biscuits La Trinitaine-Ethypharm (Marc Guillemot)
Sopra Group (Philippe Monnet)
Bayer CropScience (Fred Le Peutrec)
Gitana X (Lionel Lemonchois)
Sergio Tacchini (Karine Fauconnier)
Sodebo (Thomas Coville) (possibly)

Foncia and Geant are still sorting out their new masts while Banque Populaire is still having major structural repairs made to her beams and is expected to be relaunched onn 16 September. Giovanni Soldini's Fila is still in the Mediterranean and not taking part in the Grand Prix.

Current overall results after three 9 Telecom ORMA Grand Prix this year:

1- Fujifilm (Loïck Peyron) 6+30+10 = 46 points
2- Bonduelle (Jean Le Cam) 3+18+0,2 = 21,2 points
3- Groupama (Franck Cammas) 10+0,3+6 = 16,3 points
4- Banque Covefi (Bertrand de Broc) 0,2+12+0,2 = 12,4 points
5ex- Belgacom (Jean-Luc Nélias) 0+0,3+4 = 4,3 points
5ex- Foncia (Alain Gautier) 1+0,3+3 = 4,3 points
5ex- Biscuits La Trinitaine-Ethypharm (Marc Guillemot) 4+0,3+0 = 4,3 points
8- Sopra Group (Philippe Monnet) 0,2+0,3+2 = 2,5 points
9- Banque Populaire (Lalou Roucayrol) 2+0+0 = 2 points
10- Bayer CropScience (Fred Le Peutrec) 0,2+0,3+0 = 0,5 point
11ex- Gitana X (Lionel Lemonchois)
11ex- Sodébo (Thomas Coville)
11ex- Géant (Michel Desjoyeaux)
NC - Sergio Tacchini (Karine Fauconnier)