Thompson lo tiene muy claro: todavía hay oportunidades en el Golfo de Vizcaya.
Although the pair still have around 2,000 miles to go before they reach Les Sables, Thomson admitted Le Cléac'h is now odds-on favourite to win. But he vowed to push his arch rival right the way to the end of the solo non-stop round the world race in his pursuit of the title. “There’s a ridge and I could catch up with Armel - it depends who gets across the ridge first,” Thomson said. “If there are no dramas, he should cross the ridge before me and then he’ll win the race. It’s getting more and more difficult to make a move, but I remain pragmatic and optimistic. Maybe something’s going to happen. I certainly see us closing up. According to the computer I’ll finish five hours behind him but we’ll have to wait and see - you never know.” Thomson said he expected two days of fairly light winds, then two days of fast sailing before hitting the ridge. “After this light patch I need to be within fifty miles of him,” he said. “In a few days I could make up the fifty miles. If I don’t get within fifty miles by the end of this light stuff, my chances of beating him are quite slim.”
Va a haber una cuña anticiclonica en el Golfo de Vizcaya impidiendo la circulación de las borrascas del norte, ellos van a subir con el viento del anticiclón que estará situado al W de Galicia pero ese anticiclón se quedará en simple cuña y está previsto que esa cuña impida el paso de las borrascas, pero esa situación creo que es incierta a unos días vista. Si se mantiene la cuña, cruzarla va a ser difícil, y Thomson tendrá su posibilidad, débil, puesto que se supone que tiene un bordo perjudicado, pero es lo que hay...
Tensión hasta la misma línea de meta, en cualquier caso, cualquiera de los dos sería un merecido vencedor...
