You may not like it but it is the truth.

Who are driving the mini650, vendee globe, ORMA and round the world racing cirquits ?

Who has won the most of these cirquits. Who are BY FAR the most innovative with boat design ?

Who are the winners of the last "The Race" ? And who designed and build both the winners and the top 3 boats of THE RACE ? Who even thought up the race to begin with.

Who have gether most distance race records as a nation.

Who started F18 racing ?

And so on ...

Sorry guys but the answer in not the Brits or Americans.

The answer is still the French, Australians and New Zealanders. Sorry. Mike Golding and Ellen Mac. don't do more than close the gap a little bit. Fosset and Ogletree are exceptions to the rule. I have never seen a UK or US crew in the top 5 of F18 or A-cat class for example, both ISAF classes mind you ! And even in the H16 class the French and Australians won more than their fair share. Population of Aus = 18 million, New Zealand = 6 million or so; France about 50 million. Compare that to 230 million of the USA ?

Sorry guys: US isn't a biggy and the UK is a has been.

Don't shoot the messenger !

Wouter