Naples offered a new challenge to the nine crews competing in the America’s Cup World Series on Friday as light, shifty offshore winds battled an onshore swell, resulting in a race course where gains and losses were often measured in the hundreds of yards.
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At an ORACLE Racing press conference last week, CEO Russell Coutts described how the team’s first AC72 catamaran is in an advanced state of construction at three locations around the Pacific Rim.
Continue Reading ...08/2010 – This week in Cowes (UK), two of sailing’s youngest, most talented skippers – Jimmy Spithill and Ben Ainslie – square off in The 1851 Cup, a one-off match racing regatta between America’s Cup winner BMW ORACLE Racing and TEAMORIGIN of the U.K. Australian Jimmy Spithill, aged 30 last February, became the youngest skipper […]
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A win in the match race quarterfinals, followed by first and second-place results in fleet racing, completed a successful day of racing for ORACLE TEAM USA at the America’s Cup World Series in Naples.
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ORACLE TEAM USA SPITHILL showed the resiliency today at America’s Cup World Series San Francisco that is the mark of a great team.
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ORACLE TEAM USA beat Groupama Team France for the second time in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup Qualifiers, to retain its position at the top of the leaderboard.
Continue Reading ...08/2010 – BMW ORACLE Racing may have won the war in a race around the Isle of Wight, but it dropped a battle on the Solent. BMW ORACLE Racing awoke yesterday trailing the match race regatta against TEAMORIGIN 4-1. But with wins worth 3 points, the American yacht quickly tied the series by winning the […]
Continue Reading ...09/2009 – Tim Jeffery joins BMW ORACLE Racing as Director, Communications. The 33rd America’s Cup will be his ninth. He has reported on the America’s Cup, as well as five Olympics and many of the world’s major sailing events as The Daily Telegraph’s (London) longstanding sailing correspondent. His work has been appeared in many of […]
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ORACLE TEAM USA opened the first day of racing in Naples, Italy, with split results in the first two fleet races of the America’s Cup World Series 2012-13 finale.
Continue Reading ...11/2008 – Russell Coutts, CEO and Skipper of BMW ORACLE Racing, today announced that BOR 90, the syndicate’s state-of-the-art trimaran, has successfully completed Phase I of its sea trials in San Diego. The 90 foot high-tech trimaran now will undergo further modifications to improve performance based on the team’s experiences with the trimaran on the […]
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