America's Cup 2021

[Fuller Pilch]

America's Cup starts in about half an hour: Team NZ vs Luna Rossa (Italy).

The series is best of 13 (1st to 7). There will be 2 races today.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Luna Rossa looked pretty good in the challenger race series and have Jimmy Spithill (Aus) as helmsman.

 

[Burgey]

Is this still a thing?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Team NZ won the start

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Is this still a thing?

Yeah. The Italians won the challenger series ahead of the Americans. The British team missed the challenger final

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Team NZ won race 1 by 31 secs

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Race 2 starting now

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Ooh Luna Rossa won the start.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Luna Rossa looking really good here in race 2. 25 secs ahead at gate 3.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

7 sec win to the Italians. 1-1.
This should be a good series

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Race 3 to the Italians. A very important 4th race starts soon.

 

[Athlai]

Really wish Americas cup would get all country names out of it and wish we didn't didn't fund a cent of it. If mega rich boaties and boat manufacturers want to have big races around the world, cool.

It should be thought of like Formula 1.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

2 all now.

 

[Flem274*]

Really wish Americas cup would get all country names out of it and wish we didn't didn't fund a cent of it. If mega rich boaties and boat manufacturers want to have big races around the world, cool.

It should be thought of like Formula 1.

it's literally more boring than golf but with platinum standard coverage. imagine if cricket had broadcasting this good.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Team NZ has won the series 7-3 (score flattered them a bit). Quite a good series.

 

[Mike5181]

Today's race was a bit anti climatic because it just reinforced what we already knew, Team NZ had the faster boat. The three races before that were genuinely exciting and they kind of needed to be because the Cup up until that point had been incredibly predictable. Win the start, and if the lead pushes out to more than 100m or so you win the race.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Today's race was a bit anti climatic because it just reinforced what we already knew, Team NZ had the faster boat. The three races before that were genuinely exciting and they kind of needed to be because the Cup up until that point had been incredibly predictable. Win the start, and if the lead pushes out to more than 100m or so you win the race.

Pretty accurate summation.