With less than one month to go before the opening of the Alicante Race Village, preparations are continuing apace.
© Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race
On Friday afternoon, at a press conference to reveal details of the Race Village plans to the local media, Vicent Soler, the Minister of Finance of the Generalitat Valenciana, called the Volvo Ocean Race an exceptional event for the city and region.
“The race puts the Valencia region (Comunidad Valenciana) on the world map,” he said. “The Race Village is a showcase for Alicante and the Valencia region… (with) an economic impact in previous editions estimated at more than 60-million euros.”
The heart of the race is the teams and sailors and team bases have pride of place in the heart of the Race Village, with the Volvo Ocean 65 boats moored in line along the main pier, offering prime viewing opportunities for the public.
© Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race
This week, the team bases started to take shape. For the current edition of the race, the bases are identical structures forming a kind of pit lane experience. The public have access to the ground floor of each base, where they can learn about the sailors, the teams, and their partners and pick up an autographed poster of each team.
On the pontoons in front of the bases the Volvo Ocean 65 race boats will be moored. The public can get up close and personal with the boats, and learn about these offshore race machines , that the best sailors in the world will push to the limit.
© Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race
Check in next week for more updates as the Alicante Race Village build-out continues.
