A few hours from the finish of the Vendée Globe, four skippers can still claim victory and five skippers could be on the podium. Four of them have competed in Class40.
Yannick Bestaven
- Winner of the 2015 Transat Jacques Vabre
- Winner of the 2011 Transat Jacques Vabre
- Winner of 2015 Les Sables Horta
- Second of Sables Les Sables Horta 2011
- Second of the Normandy Channel Race 2015
Boris Herrmann
- Winner of the 2008-2009 Global Ocean race
- Second of the 2008 Artemis Transat
- Third of the 2009 Rolex Fastnet Race
- Seventh of the 2013 Normandy Channele Race
Louis Burton
- Second of the 2018 RORC Caribbean
- Twentieth of the 2010 Route du Rhum
- Builder of Tizh 40
Thomas Ruyant
- Winner of the 2010 Route du Rhum
- Winner of the 2010 Normandy Channel race
- Winner of the 2010 Record SNSM
- Third of the 2014 Normandy Channel race
- Fifth of the 2012 Mondial Class40
The only certainty at this time is that Class40 is very proud of its former members and wishes the skippers a great end to the race. To its many other representatives: Damien Seguin, Giancarlo Pedote, Maxime Sorel, Armel Tripon, Arnaud Boissières, Alan Roura, Stéphane Le Diraison, Pip Hare, Manuel Cousin, Miranda Merron and Alexia Barrier.