Ineos dominates but is stopped by wind, Luna Rossa thanks: nothing done in Barcelona

There is a wait for wind on the Barcelona race course for matches 3 and 4 of the Louis Vuitton Cup final between Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and Ineos Britannia. Race Director Ian Murray, however, believes in it and eventually shortly after 4 p.m. conditions seem to stabilize, although the 6.5 knot limit seems very shaky.
The result is an unpredictable race, which the Brits dominate for a long time, but which they are unable to bring home due to a drop in wind on the finish.
Having passed the time limit to complete the course, Ian Murray sends everyone ashore.
It resumes tomorrow. However, we talk about it on the Cup Process at 6:30 p.m. Luca Sordelli and Mauro Giuffrè’s guests will be Giovanni Ceccarelli, luca Bassani, Federico Albano, and Ida Castiglioni.

Luna Rossa vs. Britannia – The Cancelled Match

Britannia enters tacking to port, Luna tacking to starboard, in marginal foiling conditions that promise to be quite complex.
Britannia burns time by tacking and gybing around the starboard mark, intending to keep at the top of the pre-start box, an intention that seems similar for Luna Rossa.
Both boats approach the start from off the line to arrive fast. Luna Rossa starts faster to port, Britannia to starboard, with good separation.
Despite the good exit speed at the first crossing it passes Ineos and veers into cover.
The right side of the field seems much favored judging by how far Ineos was able to cross in front of the first cross.
Ben Ainslie tacking and counter tacking on the sails of the Italian boat trying to contain the gap.
However, it is 19 seconds behind Luna Rossa at the first gate. Disastrous is Britannia’s first gybe, which quickly loses all the lead it had, with Luna Rossa taking advantage of the separation at the Gate and even immediately overtaking the British at the first cross.
The race, however, is wide open and played out on gusts, with the boats gybing at the same time in the stern. At the end of the first stern, the British put their noses back ahead by exploiting a gust. The match, however, hangs in the balance and is played out on degrees of wind rotation and every little gust.
The battle of the first stern is won by the British, with a 15-second lead, but Luna Rossa manages to take a right for the second windward mark.
It does not pay much for the choice, however, and Ineos gains and manages to get back in control.
Surprising is Britannia’s agility in little wind, quite the opposite of what had been seen during the Round Robins.
Ben Ainslie digs out an important lead, 1 minute 28 even at the second windward gate, although very light wind conditions can always create surprises.
Little change, however, in the British lead during the second run upwind.
From the right, however, Luna Rossa in the last windward leg manages to come in and sharply shorten the gap, with the British struggling to cross an area with little wind.
In the same zone, Luna Rossa tacked, but fell off the foils, and at this point the race seemed to turn bad for ours.
There is no time to despair too much, however, because the British also fall from the foils. Both boats in displacement mode in this final part of the last upwind leg.
There is no break in the stern, with the race heading towards the time limit.
Luna Rossa thanks fate this time, and the final stays at 1-1. Mauro Giuffrè