AUDIO: From The Transat

Alain Gautier and Karine Fauconnier describe their races

Results so far:

Pos	Boat	Skipper	Time	Av speed	TTL
1	Geant	Michel Desjoyeaux	8d 8h 29m 56s	13.62
2	Sodebo	Thomas Coville	8d 10h 38m 0s	13.47	0d 2h 8m 5s
3	Groupama	Franck Cammas	8d 14h 16m 02s	13.24	0d 5h 46m 7s
4	Foncia	Alain Gautier	9d 7h 5m 10s	12.24	0d 22h 35m 15s
5	Sergio Tacchini	Karine Fauconnier	9d 12h 36m 47s	10.5	1d 4h 6m 51s
6	Banque Populaire	Lalou Roucayrol	9d 14h 5m 27s	10.43	1d 5h 35m 31s

The finish between Karine Fauconnier's Sergio Tacchini and Lalou Roucayrol's Banque Populaire for fifth place in The Transat was a spectacular one. At the 1500GMT position report Fauconnier was 10 miles astern of Roucayrol, but in the end she was able to slip past him to arrive 30 minutes ahead. Banque Populaire has been sailing for the last half of the race with a split in her mainsail which Roucayrol says he repaired using two battens. "It is like running a four cylinder engine on three cylinders," he says.

Listen to the audio from Karine Fauconnier and fourth placed Alain Gautier.