The stage is set for tense finish in the last hours of leg four with an overnight park-up predicted, and more of the same tomorrow. In the last few hours, local heroes, Brasil 1 (Torben Grael) have overtaken ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) and although the Dutch team did everything they could to stay ahead of them, it seems the Brazilian boat is slightly quicker than the white Dutch boat on this angle. The fleet has reasonable breeze tonight, but from tomorrow until the finish in Rio de Janeiro, the weather will be light and the chance of a park-up will increase.

Leading the fleet, ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson) has a 76 mile buffer on Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard), but this could so easily diminish if the breeze dies. In the last six hours, the chasing pack, with the exception of movistar who is in a completely different weather pattern, has all lost miles to ABN AMRO ONE. But they are just waiting for the opportunity to pounce and the final line-up in Rio de Janeiro could still be quite different from the leaderboard order shown tonight.

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