News Updates
News: The Black & White Boat’s Next Adventure 16.02.12
After the fantastic result in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race in December, the Black & White boat has been in Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia for the past few weeks, where her crew have been getting her in shape ……
News: ALL IS REVEALED – KEEL WALK TAKE 2! 01.02.12
For about a week now we have been hinting at something pretty exciting that we’ve been working on at Alex Thomson Racing. As the temperature in the UK drops below freezing, we are casting our minds back to warmer days ……
News: All systems go! 19.01.12
The race boat was lifted out of the water earlier this week and is now in refit! There’s plenty to be done and the technical team will soon be relocating to the yard so they can start full-time work on ……
News: Happy New Year 03.01.12
Happy New Year from all at the Alex Thomson Racing team. 2012 is a big year for the team, after the busy finish to 2011 with three races back-to-back and three great results. The start of this year will see the ……
News: New photos from Australia 27.12.11
Photos from the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race Start now in the Image Gallery!
News: THOMSON & CREW SET TO REPRESENT UK IN SYDNEY HOBART 20.12.11
THOMSON SET TO COMPLETE OFFSHORE TREBLE AS HUGO BOSS CREW PREPARE TO REPRESENT UK SAILING DOWN UNDER IMOCA skipper to round off a dramatic 2011 in style Of the 89 yachts on the starting line of this year’s Rolex Sydney ……
News: CATERHAM COMPOSITES AND FIVEº WEST ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP 19.12.11
Sports marketing firm Fiveº West today formally announced their performance partnership with Caterham Composites. The partnership will see Caterham Composites, a division of the Caterham Group, working with Fiveº West ‘s grand prix yacht racing campaigns. Caterham Composites is the ……
News: Alex Thomson Awarded Fourth Place Following Redress 19.12.11
On Friday evening, 16 December, the Transat B2B race committee granted HUGO BOSS redress following the installation of the weather gate along the race course from St. Barts to Lorient. Alex submitted the request for redress after his passage was ……
News: Alex Thomson Successfully Completes Transat B2B in Sixth Place 16.12.11
At 15h43 today (15 December) Alex Thomson crossed the finish line in sixth position, and successfully completed the Transat B2B, single handed race across the Atlantic from St.Barts to a waypoint off the North-Western tip of Spain. The 3,000 mile race, which has ……
News: The plot thickens… 14.12.11
This morning see’s Alex sailing in gusts of 50 knots and 10 metre seas. He described the conditions as horrific and said he was thrown off his bunk and into the a bulkhead a number of times during the night. ……