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Publi\u00e9 ce jour l’avis de course de la 17\u00e8me CIC NORMANDY CHANNEL RACE propose aux \u00e9quipages en double de Class40 une nouvelle \u00e9dition du 27 mai au 7 juin 2026 avec un d\u00e9part le dimanche 31 mai \u00e0 14.00. Les \u00e9l\u00e9ments fondamentaux de la course, son parcours, ses principales r\u00e8gles, sont stables mais l’on sait que les circonstances en particulier m\u00e9t\u00e9orologiques modifient souvent les sch\u00e9mas initiaux. Cette nouvelle \u00e9dition marque \u00e9galement le renouvellement pour une nouvelle p\u00e9riode de 3 ans de l’engagement des collectivit\u00e9s normandes ( Ville de Caen \/ Communaut\u00e9 Urbaine Caen la mer \/ D\u00e9partement du Calvados \/ R\u00e9gion Normandie) qui en ont \u00e9t\u00e9 les fondatrices avec l’appui de la CCI Caen Normandie et aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de Sirius Evenements. Apr\u00e9s une \u00e9dition de tous les records en 2025 ( participations, \u00e9v\u00e9nement exclusif Class40, retour m\u00e9dias) et forte en \u00e9motions sur le plan sportif la CIC NORMANDY CHANNEL RACE se place dans la continuit\u00e9 de son histoire comme \u00e9v\u00e9nement central du circuit Class40. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Une \u00e9dition marquante en 2025 qui s’est inscrite dans l’histoire de l’\u00e9preuve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Record de participation de l’\u00e9preuve avec 32 concurrents et record d’un \u00e9v\u00e9nement exclusif Class40 depuis la cr\u00e9ation de la s\u00e9rie, on se souviendra aussi de l’\u00e9dition 2025 comme celle d’une ann\u00e9e particuli\u00e8rement exigeante sur le plan sportif avec seulement la moiti\u00e9 des partants \u00e0 l’arriv\u00e9e. L’\u00e9preuve s’inscrit dans la lign\u00e9e des grands \u00e9v\u00e9nements qui tous connaissent des ann\u00e9es “rep\u00e9res” particuli\u00e8rement marquantes. Les \u00e9volutions climatiques sont un d\u00e9fi croissant pour la course au large comme on le voit encore r\u00e9cemment avec le report de la GLOBE40 de 4 jours pour son d\u00e9part de Lorient en plein \u00e9t\u00e9 ou l’annulation de la 1\u00e8re \u00e9tape de La Boulang\u00e8re Mini Transat en septembre. 2025 a vu aussi pour la premi\u00e8re fois depuis 15 ans un accident en mer avec la collision d’un concurrent et d’un batiment marchand, heureusement au final sans d\u00e9g\u00e2ts humains graves. Et apr\u00e8s toutes ces \u00e9preuves c’est ESPRIT LARGE ( n\u00b0209) de Corentin Douguet et Axel Trehin qui le premier a franchi l’ensemble de ces difficult\u00e9s pour s’assurer sa victoire et mettre son nom sur un Troph\u00e9e ou beaucoup des grands skippers de l’\u00e9poque figurent. <\/em><\/p>\n

Une Class40 toujours plus au centre de la course au large<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Si le nombre de mises \u00e0 l’eau annuelles s’est r\u00e9duit par rapport aux ann\u00e9es 2021 et 2022 la classe a n\u00e9anmoins accueilli cette ann\u00e9e \u00e0 ce jour sa 213 \u00e8me unit\u00e9, un plan Musa italien , SALANO, pour le skipper Robin Follin ; soit 55 Class40 type “scow” ( nez-rond ) mis \u00e0 l’eau en 6 ans depuis le fameux n\u00b0 158, premier scow de son genre. Pr\u00e9sente en force dans les transatlantiques avec une quarantaine d’unit\u00e9s \u00e0 chaque fois – Transat Caf\u00e9 L’or en 2025 et Route du Rhum en 2026 – , les Class40 ont aussi leur Tour du Monde avec le d\u00e9part en ao\u00fbt dernier de la 2\u00e8me \u00e9dition de la GLOBE40. Et une nouvelle \u00e9preuve s’est cr\u00e9e en M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e en 2025 dans la lign\u00e9e de la grande soeur normande avec la CIC MED CHANNEL RACE. Beau dynamisme donc \u00e0 un moment ou des perspectives \u00e9conomiques incertaines mettent l’accent sur des engagements financiers raisonnables permettant d’acc\u00e9der \u00e0 toutes les grandes \u00e9preuves, et \u00e0 une classe qui est de loin la plus peformante en termes de d\u00e9veloppement durable. Rien n’emp\u00eache donc de penser que la Class40 va encore dans les prochaines ann\u00e9es \u00eatre un des acteurs principaux de la course au large, qu’on la rejoigne apr\u00e9s par exemple un parcours en mini 6.50 , qu’on y reste de nombreuses ann\u00e9es pour s’y \u00e9panouir, ou qu’on la quitte pour d’autres s\u00e9ries d’excellence sportive apr\u00e8s un parcours r\u00e9ussi en r\u00e9sultat sportif et en image. <\/em><\/p>\n

Pr\u00e9s de 3,5 millions de t\u00e9l\u00e9spectateurs sur la chaine L’EQUIPE.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

L’\u00e9dition 2025 aura \u00e9t\u00e9 marqu\u00e9e aussi par une “pouss\u00e9e” m\u00e9dias exceptionnelle : pour la 3\u00e8me ann\u00e9e cons\u00e9cutive grace \u00e0 l’appui du CIC un dispositif puissant a \u00e9t\u00e9 mis en place avec la chaine l’EQUIPE: direct d’une heure au d\u00e9part avec des moyens techniques importants, sujet quotidien multi-diffus\u00e9 sur 9 jours et 33 passages au total : au bilan 3.473.000 spectateurs, un record quotidien \u00e0 456.000 ; une implication des \u00e9missions de la chaine tr\u00e8s suivies comme dans l’Equipe de Choc ou l’Equipe de Greg qui chaque jour ont \u00e9voqu\u00e9 la course. Et 1,82 millions de vues sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux de la chaine \u00e0 cumuler avec les 1,67 millions de vues sur les r\u00e9seaux de l’\u00e9v\u00e9nement, soit au total 3,5 millions de vues en une semaine. <\/em><\/p>\n

Et ce d\u00e9veloppement se cumule avec les partenaires medias traditionnels de la course qui nous accompagnent depuis 16 ans : direct d\u00e9part sur FR3 Normandie et pastille quotidienne sur 12 jours en Normandie et Hauts de France. ICI en Normandie et OUEST-FRANCE couvrent \u00e9galement l’\u00e9preuve avec beaucoup d’intensit\u00e9. <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>L\u2019Avis de Course 2026 est publi\u00e9 ce jour les inscriptions ouvertes : www.normandy-race.com<\/a> – espace coureurs<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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