Cammas arrived late (to the team) to recover the advance Souben and team Dunkerque had over Groupama, specially after a leg cancelled due to bad weather. Several victories were not enough.
But the great achievement from Daniel Souvent risk to lose importance face to the big news: Next year the Tour de France will be raced on multihulls.
It seems that the guys don't find the M34 fast enough :-). It will be raced on this baby:
It is going to be fast, very wet and very physical,specially on the long legs. For sure it will provide some amazing movies. I cannot wait ;-)
Is this not simply giving Franck Cammas an even bigger advantage? Not many are better in multihulls than he. Perhaps the sponsors want to attract AC45 and Extreme Series teams. That would be very interesting, considering those circuits don't have any offshore racing. But I am a bit concerned about how race officials will handle the inevitable capsize and inversion of these boats. It's one thing to flip your ORMA or MOD 70 multihull, where you can live inside the upside down hull for days quite comfortably. That won't be an option for these boats. Still, I give them credit for creating some buzz.
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