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33rd America's Cup - Race One highlights

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Watch Race One highlights from the 33rd America's Cup as the wingsailed trimaran of the challenger, BMW ORACLE Racing, takes on the powerful catamaran of Alinghi, the Defender.

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  • amazing boats.

  • There was no way on earth that Alinghi was going to win this race. I wish the AC would go back to monohaul boats and have them all of the same make/manufacture so that teams can customize sails and crew only

  • i was there in Valencia ;-) i became really happy when Oracle beated Alinghi!!! Bertarelli you got what you deserved!!!

  • @IchiCrack This is a little brash - one of the primary advantages this boat enjoyed was through the design of the rigid wing sail, through work with Scaled-Composites (in which many of the engineers from the 1988 America's cup wing sail had worked on). Beyond that, it's a trimeran - big deal. Yes it's beautiful and technologically incredible, but with computers I don't think "we needed the French" to win this race; they simply decided to have an experienced multihull firm (VPLP) draw it up.

  • @oceanplanet602 I understand your frustration, but you've gotta look at it from a different perspective. If you're putting a team together that is going to represent your pride in your home country - and you know you'll have everyone counting on you.. when it comes time to sink millions into R&D and construction of your boat, are you going to ditch the best design for something "elegant and classic" knowing full well you'll get smoked on international TV; going down in recordbooks as a loser?

  • @SuperLouis555  WTF are you talking about

  • Somehow I think we are all going to get through this. Boats again will feel like they came from our own backyards. Things can only go forward from this point. I am not worried. The technology in these boats came from everywhere. I think of football, which is I believe has gone through this same dilema. And look at the superbowls of recent and I see a surviving sport.

  • BMWO was going to win races with or without WingSail. The Swiss are just lucky the wind wasn't stronger, then it would have been a lot worse. We will never truely know what those boats could have done. these light wind races are cool but not enough.

  • @IchiCrack you are correct! and as an American, I kinda feel like we didn't win it either!

  • This is hardly a win for the Americans. USA-17 is French designed and the crew seems to be Aussie/Kiwi, am I right?

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