Team New Zealand with one hand on the America’s Cup and 5 match points at hand

Not shaking Team New Zealand, the ghosts of San Francisco for the new Kiwi generation do not exist, and Peter Burling and co. badly scrambled Britannia to take a 6-2 lead in this America’s Cup final in Barcelona. The wind is blowing from shore, the wave is back low and short as it was in the early days, and Ben Ainslie after Wednesday’s lion’s share can never stay in the race. An object impacted by Britannia’s rudder also seems to have gotten in the way, which would have impaired her performance during the second race, but the substance of the result changes little. The Kiwis trimmed over a kilometer gap to the Brits per race, an enormity, an advantage that was the result of the boat’s newfound speed in conditions more congenial to her, as well as a newfound concentration on the wind shifts by the New Zealand dream team.

Team New Zealand doesn’t give Britannia a chance

The wind blows from shore for races number 7 and 8 of the America’s Cup in Barcelona, with major wind shifts. The Kiwis start on the right in the first, on the left in the second, but the result is the same: at the first crossing in both cases they are already ahead, and from there there there is no history. Impressive is Rehutai’s change of pace as the wave conditions change: struggling in heavy seas and little wind, sidereal instead in cooler winds and moderate seas. Team New Zealand has one hand on the America’s Cup and as many as 5 match points at its disposal, tomorrow the first chance to close contention. It would be the first time in modern America’s Cup history that a team has managed to win it three times in a row. Since Australia II in 1983 broke the American hegemony, it has never happened. We talk about it at 6:30 p.m. at Process of the Cup, with a special guest: Caterina Banti, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the Nacra 17, will drop by, then there will be the Deputy Editor of Il Giornale della Vela, Eugenio Ruocco, with Federico Albano, Luca Bassani, Giovanni Ceccarelli, Ida Castiglioni, Simone Malagugini. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jDS1RUVHbE