{"id":8957,"date":"2025-06-02T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/aina-bauza-y-axelle-pillain-arrancan-la-temporada-con-un-podio-en-la-armen-race\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:52:24","slug":"aina-bauza-y-axelle-pillain-arrancan-la-temporada-con-un-podio-en-la-armen-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/aina-bauza-y-axelle-pillain-arrancan-la-temporada-con-un-podio-en-la-armen-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick Off the Season with a Podium Finish at the ArMen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1920\" data-end=\"2379\">Mallorcan sailor Aina Bauza and French skipper Axelle Pillain have kicked off the <strong>Class 40 season with strength, achieving a commendable third place in the prestigious ArMen Race<\/strong> \u2014 a coastal regatta of approximately 300 nautical miles that circles the Ar Men lighthouse, passing Belle-\u00cele and \u00cele d\u2019Yeu. This year\u2019s edition already forecasted difficulties for the sailors, with light winds from the start, which forced the course to be shortened to 205 miles.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2381\" data-end=\"2555\">The duo crossed the finish line after <strong>1 day, 18 hours, and 53 minutes of racing, finishing less than two minutes behind the second-place team<\/strong> in a tight and thrilling finish.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2557\" data-end=\"2893\">Bauza and Pillain led the fleet in the early stages of the race, but a calm just four hours after the start regrouped the boats and allowed five teams to overtake them. \u201cIt was a tough moment. The calms are always the hardest: you have to stay focused, keep your spirits up, and above all, never give up,\u201d they explained after the race.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2895\" data-end=\"3036\">Far from giving up, the team steadily regained positions, one boat at a time, climbing back to the podium thanks to consistency and teamwork.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3038\" data-end=\"3213\">In this edition of the ArMen Race, Bauza and Pillain had onboard support from<strong> Estelle Greek<\/strong> and British sailor <strong>David Paul<\/strong>, who flew in specially from England to join the team.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3215\" data-end=\"3374\">This result marks the start of a racing season focused on the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transatcafelor.org\/en\/edition-2025\"><b>Transat Caf\u00e9 L\u2019Or<\/b><\/a>, a double-handed transatlantic race departing from Le Havre on October 26.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3376\" data-end=\"3577\">With strong results and active communication, the team <strong>is now looking for a main sponsor to continue competing at the highest level.<\/strong> It\u2019s the perfect time to join <strong>a thriving and results-driven project.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mallorcan sailor Aina Bauza and French skipper Axelle Pillain have  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ainabauza.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}