Stage 2 ... Race Re-Start

Now waiting for the race re-start. Here's what I can figure out (no Fleur, unfortunately I'm not in Portugal). Team had the option of getting the bonus CP credit at the start of the prologue. From a hidden link to the results that I found it appeared that 25 out of the 59 teams completed this section. The strategy in this decision was that teams still needed to finish the stage within the time limit including getting all subsequent mandatory CP's.

The results are now posted and as you can see - leaderboard - a number of teams had to miss mandatory CP/s later in the stage to make it back in time. Big mistake, and we can see the impact of the decision making with the bonus CP's.

Only 18 teams in the end got the bonus and completed the stage with Blackheart sitting pretty in 16th place. It's probably a bit hard to know what this means as far as how well they're going, but it's always good mot to make big early mistakes in a 100+ hour race. Team Nike appear to be the only big name team not to have got it right on Day 1.

The start of Stage 2 and non-stop racing is supposed to have started ... and it may well have, not that you'd know from the coverage. Sleepmonsters website appears to have a man on the ground who is reporting for the site. Anyone find anything else let everyone know. I'm happy for anyone to call Rob's mum who is support crewing for the team - if you need the number let Kathryn or I know.