Route Du Rhum: a Race for Sponsors More Contested than Ever

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In mid-September in Brittany, the Imoca de Maxime Sorel, wearing an imposing dragon on its hull, slowly pulls edges, a few hundred meters from the coast, in the bay of its home port of Concarneau (Finistère). This year, almost no exit on the high seas for the tenth of the Vendée Globe 2020/2021. In the absence of a budget, its preparation for the Route du Rhum, transatlantic in solitary that starts Sunday from Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine), was v…