Latest Volvo Ocean Race news

Gothenburg will be the final stop on the route for the 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race in 2014-15 and will also feature in the 13th edition of the race.

Today it was announced that the first leg in Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 will be from Alicante, Spain, to Recife, Brazil. It was also revealed that Brazil will enter a team.

The Volvo Ocean Race has unveiled details of the high-performance new boat that will be used for the next two editions of the Race.

The next Volvo Ocean Race stopover takes place in Miami, USA. In the end of this week, there will be extensive business programs for Volvo Group´s guests. You can follow the race on our blog, live TV and on the internet.

The fifth Volvo Ocean Race Stopover took place in Auckland the past week. There were several successful customer events arranged by Volvo Group. Read more in the newsletter Stopover Stories Auckland!

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The Volvo Ocean Race is an extreme sailing race. The demands put on boats and equipment are enormous. So the maintenance after every leg and the preparation before each start have to be meticulous. Now, Volvo Penta opens up the pit lane with the blog “Engines and Sails”.

The 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race will take place in 2014-15 after Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Group today reaffirmed their long-term commitment to the world’s premier offshore sailing event.

From October 2011-July 2012, IT-related challenges will be issued on Facebook from the Volvo IT crew at each of the ten cities where the Volvo Ocean Race stops. Volvo IT is using a specially developed application for inviting Facebook users to participate in the IT delivery to the race from wherever they are in the world.

Millions of people from all over the world will be watching the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race, yet very few of them will realise how reliant they are on Volvo IT. At each of the ten ports, an official race village is set up, where Volvo IT use the latest state of the art technique for the set-up.