“
It's a Solitaire on a small cloud.
I'm not getting over it yet.
It will stay in my heart for a long time,
”said Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) after his victory in the 52nd edition of the Solitaire du Figaro, Thursday evening in Saint-Nazaire.
"
I sailed as I like, I believed in the option further offshore, it was not the right one. It was hot. There is so much going on in my head. For me, this is a historic victory, it will stay in my heart for a long time. It comes to the end of a fourth stage full of suspense. I had forbidden myself to look at the arrival time of Xavier (Macaire) and to start a stopwatch. I just wanted to arrive as quickly as possible. It is also the end of a magnificent story with the Skipper Macif project, and farewell to my beautiful Figaro Bénéteau 3 n ° 37. It is inevitably a lot of emotions that intertwine, with an immense joy that will become more and more palpable in the hours and days to come. I still find it hard to tell myself that I
won the Solitaire, it's amazing! ", he added.