{"id":838,"date":"2015-06-27T18:15:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2015-07-27T07:45:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T07:45:21","slug":"838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"Team Brunel win absorbing Gothenburg in-port battle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=Every_sailrace\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-840\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/m42583_vor-150627-asanchez-9566.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-840 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/m42583_vor-150627-asanchez-9566-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"June 27, 2015. The final day of the 2014-15 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. The fleet during the Inmarsat In-Port Race in Gothenburg.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/m42583_vor-150627-asanchez-9566-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/m42583_vor-150627-asanchez-9566-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/m42583_vor-150627-asanchez-9566.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">June 27, 2015. The final day of the 2014-15 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. The fleet during the Inmarsat In-Port Race in Gothenburg. Photo: Ainhoa Sanchez \/ Volvo Ocean Race<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>GOTHENBURG, Sweden, June 27 \u2013 Team Brunel (Bouwe Bekking\/NED) emerged victorious in the final act of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 today in the Inmarsat In-Port Race Gothenburg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Behind him there was major drama in a race for connoisseurs of in-shore racing as MAPFRE (Iker Mart\u00ednez\/ESP) outwitted Team Alvimedica (Charlie Enright\/USA) in the final few moments of an intriguing race.<\/p>\n<p>By pushing the Turkish\/American boat wide to allow Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier\/FRA) to slip in ahead of them (see panel above), MAPFRE ensured that they broke the tie for fourth place on countback overall, which they were sharing with Team Alvimedica after nine months&#8217; gruelling racing.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (Ian Walker\/GBR) earned the six points they needed to win the overall In-Port Race series by edging out last-placed Team Vestas Wind (Chris Nicholson\/AUS), who have suffered in the shorter races after re-joining the event in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>They finished just one point clear of Team Brunel in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Ian Walker\u2019s crew had claimed the overall offshore trophy \u2013 the main event \u2013 with five points to spare, also from the Dutch crew.<\/p>\n<p>Team SCA (Sam Davies\/GBR) sailed a canny race today to claim second place in the Inmarsat In-Port Race Gothenburg, and with it the third place on the podium for the in-port series, behind Ian Walker\u2019s crew and Team Brunel.<\/p>\n<p>Two royals had front row seats. His Majesty King Juan Carlos of Spain was on MAPFRE, and Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, joined Team SCA.<\/p>\n<p>Both would have appreciated more than most, the intricacies of such a tactical tussle in near windless conditions<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=Every_sailrace\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOTHENBURG, Sweden, June 27 \u2013 Team Brunel (Bouwe Bekking\/NED) emerged victorious in the final act of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 today in the Inmarsat In-Port Race Gothenburg. Behind him there was major drama in a race for connoisseurs of in-shore racing as MAPFRE (Iker Mart\u00ednez\/ESP) outwitted Team Alvimedica (Charlie Enright\/USA) in the final few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}