My mantra before this Vendee Globe race started was… nothing will be the same. And it was a good thing to keep in my mind.

With just a week to go until Pip's book, In My Element, is published we're sharing an exclusive excerpt.

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Finishing in 9th position in one of the most competitive top tens the IMOCA class has ever seen was the validation our team was looking for after three years of monumentally hard graft.

So, you can perhaps see, the pressure is on, time is short, we have a lot to accomplish in a short amount of time and the whole team, operations and technical could not be working harder.

We have reached the point in our three-and-a-half-year campaign where we can make no more huge leaps forward, our options have been set out and decided, we must now double down and work on perfecting what we have, to ensure we, as a team, have every chance of realising the potential we have worked so hard to create over our first full time campaign.