The Race (yachting race)

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The Race (La Course du Millénaire) 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.

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

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

[edit] Results

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

Entrant	Skipper	Rank	Time	Notes
Club Med	Grant Dalton	1	62d 6h 56' 33"
Innovation Explorer	Loick Peyron and Skip Novak	2	64d 22h 32' 38"
Team Adventure	Cam Lewis	3	82d 20h 21' 02"
Warta Polpharma	Roman Paszke	4	99d 12h 31'
Team Legato	Tony Bullimore	5	104d 20h 52'
PlayStation	Steve Fossett	6	DNF	Damaged and forced to withdraw on day 16 [1]
Team Philips	Pete Goss	-	-	Withdrew before the start of the race