Americas Cup
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@voodoo said in Americas Cup:
@Snowy said in Americas Cup:
@voodoo said in Americas Cup:
What I don't love is when 1 boat is just ridiculously more advanced than the rest and its no longer F1, its like putting a Mercedes F1 car in a Saturday morning cart race.
Whilst I appreciate and really like having a significant design element to competing, I do want to some level of sailing skill retained.Which makes it eactly like F1. There is nearly always one team that is faster than the others, it's more like Mercedes versing Haas. Driver skills have to be there, but as they say with the yachting, the fastest boat will win and you still need good sailors, but the boat wins just like the car in F1. If the crew / driver make an error that screws it up but they both have many races to counter that.
I dunno. If you go back to the Oracle debacle, watching us lose 8 straight and just being totally powerless to even defend a lead if we won the start was pretty shitty. Pretty hard to flick a switch like that in F1 and watch your car suddenly become light years ahead of the 2nd best. I'm sure there was plenty of skill required to sail that boat, but it bloody looked like you amd me could have done it whike consuming a few beers and some lobster along the way !
The worst decision, IIRC, was Dalton letting them have a day off, which gave them an extra day to make their modifications. Coupled with that race that was abandoned with the line in sight due to TV scheduling, and we lost. It was dodgy that you are not meant to have any sort of mechanical devices in the boat, but they seemed to have one that kept them up on the foils for longer....
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@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:
so when
is the team nameddoes the racing start?December 17th? Pre-Xmas regatta. The boats were out practicing head to head today in preparation. Peter Lester was on TV1, reckons TNZ look good
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Really looking forward to it as well and stoked that they have been able to get that course B or C as able to be used as those two are just awesome from a spectator perspective. I expect North Head and Mt Vic to be humming when the racing is on. They will be great viewing points.
Course A is also just straight off taka beach so can pretty much watch that one from home. Will definitely check out the pre xmas regatta and then the second half of the prada cup as we will be away all of Jan.
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@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:
so when
is the team nameddoes the racing start?It is the 17th Dec as mentioned above - you will be pleased to know that is a Thursday (next Thursday in fact).
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@Bovidae said in Americas Cup:
@voodoo Yes.
This link has more info:
https://www.americascup.com/race-format-and-racing-rulesThanks
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I read somewhere we will probably be keeping our powder dry during these races. Good tactic, it never fails.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Americas Cup:
I read somewhere we will probably be keeping our powder dry during these races. Good tactic, it never fails.
spot on, that's why we've got the RWC2019 in the shed
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@nzzp said in Americas Cup:
@Crazy-Horse said in Americas Cup:
I read somewhere we will probably be keeping our powder dry during these races. Good tactic, it never fails.
spot on, that's why we've got the RWC2019 in the shed
Yep. I wasnt aware that Steve Hansen had been brought on board as a strategist.
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Well, they are smashing Prada (Edit: Luna Rossa?)Incredible, 12 knot winds and up to 40 knot boat speed.
