Why we need VMG and VMC on The Ocean Race Europe Tracker

Why we need VMG and VMC on The Ocean Race Europe Tracker © Anne Beaugé / The Ocean Race

The Ocean Race Europe Tracker has just had an update thanks to PredictWind, and now looks at routing for the boats, but it doesn't yet have VMG or VMC.

Here's a little video as to what these acronyms are, and why I think it's important that they're shown on the tracker.

As promised in the video, here is the link to The Ocean Race Europe Tracker:
www.theoceanrace.com/en/racing/tracker

And here is the link to the excellent Wikipedia page about VMG and VMC:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_made_good