There is a complex race course to the Grand Finale in Genova. The start will take the teams into a North Sea crowded with shipping, wind farms and challenging currents, before the Bay of Biscay and race to Gibraltar offers a more traditional ‘offshore’ style of racing.

But then comes the Mediterranean and the final third of the leg racing through early summer conditions on a body of water that can throw any and all kinds of weather at the fleet.

With all this, it’s shaping up to be a fantastic push to the Grand Finale in Genova, Italy, with the results open in both the VO65 and IMOCA fleet.

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