Ha haNo idea exactly what's going on, but it's probably Ben Ainslie's doing.
And yet he wouldn't have been able to get it done without his pommie tactician telling him what to do.Just goes to show, if you want to achieve something against the odds, you need an Australian in charge.
Given they had a Pommy tactician I'm amazed they didn't finish the race beached at Gallipoli.And yet he wouldn't have been able to get it done without his pommie tactician telling him what to do.
Good from you.Given they had a Pommy tactician I'm amazed they didn't finish the race beached at Gallipoli.
Given they had a Pommy tactician I'm amazed they didn't finish the race beached at Gallipoli.
Good from you.
To be fair to Team NZ though, it seems most of them actually came from NZ. Not so Team USA.sailing those things probably takes a lot of skill and it looks ****ing awesome but geez, by all reports most of the oracle boat is automated and they paid a bunch of blokes a quarter of a mill each to basically rebuild oracle during the race.
the whole thing seems to be getting a bit far from sport and closer to a space race. the r + d is getting to the point where the skill of the crew is being taken out of the equation. they might have even overdone it to the level formula 1 gets to occasionally. do the sailors see any of this unlimited budget? and how do you earn the right to get a place on one of those things? i know in other expensive sports like equestrian and motor racing people get sponsored to go overseas and play for random overseas teams/owners but how does someone go from your local yacht club to this?
the patriotism is what does my head in for this. they're not a new zealand team, they're a new zealand based franchise racing against other franchises. but then i guess super rugby is a thing...
Given they had a Pommy tactician I'm amazed they didn't finish the race beached at Gallipoli.