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Who would want to sit on the Ericsson 4 substitutes’ bench?

The team lists are in and once again Torben Grael’s crew is unchanged, meaning they have now kept the same 11 men onboard for the entire race.

‘Why would we want to change?’ the Brazilian asked. ‘It is always good to have as few changes as possible. We tried to do the same with Brasil 1 in the last race, but we knew we would change for Knut (Frostad, the current race CEO) for the Southern Ocean legs because we had no experience there. We also changed the navigator for technical reasons…  Details 

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