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

The 2000 race was won by Club Med, skippered by Grant Dalton in 62 days.

The other competitors were:

• Team Philips skipper: Pete Goss - withdrew before the start of the race
• PlayStation skipper: Steve Fossett - damaged and forced to withdraw
• Team Legato skipper: Tony Bullimore
• Polpharma-Warta skipper: Roman Paszke
• Innovation Explorer skipper: Loick Peyron - placed second
• Team Adventure skipper: Cam Lewis - placed third

External links

The Race official web site (broken as of 18:42, 13 March 2006 (UTC) - technical maintenance)

Yachting races

The Race