Aarhus - Finish - 11th Hour Racing Team win Leg 5, with Team Holcim-PRB in second

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0935 local time / 0735 UTC: Here are the race timings:

2 - Holcim - PRB
Arrival : 29/05/2023 07:22:03 UTC
Race time : 7d 13h 07min 03s
Gap to first : 04h 25min 14s
Gap to previous : 04h 25min 14s
Over ortho : 3 433.83 nm / 18.96 kts
Over ground : 3 893.32 nm / 21.50 kts

3 - Team Malizia
Arrival : 29/05/2023 07:27:50 UTC
Race time : 7d 13h 12min 50s
Gap to first : 04h 31min 01s
Gap to previous : 05min 47s
Over ortho : 3 433.83 nm / 18.95 kts
Over ground : 3 868.99 nm / 21.35 kts

0930 local time / 0730 UTC: And just five minutes back it is Team Malizia in third place, collecting 6 points for their efforts. 

0925 local time / 0725 UTC: Team Holcim-PRB has held on for second place, a great result and recovery after their dismasting in leg 4. The 8 points they've secured mean they will sit just one point back of 11th Hour Racing Team on the overall leaderboard.

0830 local time / 0630 UTC: It's a final tack to the north for Team Holcim-PRB who are looking more and more secure for a second place finish, with Team Malizia 1.5 miles back but with only 5 miles left to the finishing line.

0800 local time / 0600 UTC: As the victorious 11th Hour Racing Team crew stepped ashore we caught up with navigator Simon "SiFi" Fisher:

“It was a tricky leg! It was one of those legs where we spent a lot of time looking at the weather before the start and it looked like it was going to be either a quick trip or it was going to be quite a complicated trip and luckily it turned out to be the quicker trip.

"We went into this leg knowing that we needed to be aggressive and we knew we needed to have a good result in this leg to stand a chance in the race. So we tried to sail aggressively and we sailed our own race.
I am very happy to say it worked it nicely - everybody did a tremendous job.

"We got some pretty gnarly conditions as well on the top of Scotland and just to keep the pace on through those conditions when it gets pretty difficult and tricky in these boats, it was impressive, everybody did an amazing job!

"These boats are incredible in conditions with big winds and flat water. We got used to going 30 knots so during the last few days when we slowed down to 18 it felt that we were parked!"

0700 local time / 0500 UTC:  It's coming down to the wire for Team Holcim-PRB trying to hold off a hard-charging Team Malizia. At stake is second place on the double-points scoring leg 5. 

16 miles from the finish and it's about a 2 mile advantage to Kevin Escoffier and his Holcim PRB crew. But there is an upwind section remaining on the final push to the finish and perhaps a last chance to roll the dice for Team Maliza - stay tuned.

0500 local time / 0300 UTC: They've done it!! 11th Hour Racing Team win leg 5 of The Ocean Race. The 10 points they will earn for this leg will put them in first place on the overall leaderboard. By how much will depend on the battle taking place some 50 miles behind between Team Holcim PRB and Team Malizia. 

11th Hour Racing Team
Finish : 29/05/2023 02:56:49 UTC
Race time: 7d 08h 41min 49s
Over ortho : 3 433.83 nm / 19.43 kts
Over ground : 3 873.84 nm / 21.92 kts

0438 local time / 0238 UTC: It won't be long now - just over 3 miles to go and 11th Hour Racing Team is racing at about 11 knots, almost pointing at the finish. 

0415 local time / 0215 UTC: Maybe just a couple more tacks for 11th Hour Racing team, now less than 7 miles from the finish line, which is still upwind.  

This would be a momentous win for the team and as leg 5 is a double-points scoring leg, a victory here would vault them over Team Holcim-PRB and into the overall race lead for the first time. The fight behind is still very close - Team Malizia is closing the gap with Holcim-PRB....

0340 local time / 0140 UTC: Charlie Enright's 11th Hour Racing Team is slowing down a little bit as they make the turn to the west, pointing towards the finish. It will be an upwind beat for the final miles, pushing the ETA back slightly.

0300 local time / 0100 UTC: As 11th Hour Racing Team makes the turn for the final 15 miles, the fight for second, some 60 miles behind is getting fierce. Team Holcim-PRB is trying to hold off Team Malizia, just 4 miles back.

0225 local time / 0025 UTC: This was the report off the 11th Hour Racing Team boat earlier today. "Hi, it's Charlie Enright - filling in as your on board reporter... We just did our first gybe off the Norwegian archipelago... It’s pretty windy. We're about 25 miles ahead of Team Holcim-PRB and 40 miles ahead of Malizia. … we have about 4 hours of big wind and this big push and then it’s down to Denmark and the finish."

0205 local time / 0005 UTC: 11th Hour Racing Team continues its torrid pace towards the finishing line just off Aarhus, with an ETA expected after 0400 local time. The team will need to navigate some unpredictable offshore breezes near the coast before a final, upwind push. But with Team Holcim-PRB and Team Malizia both 50 miles behind, victory in leg 5 is certainly within reach.