Kiwis rout Italians in real race
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July 15, 2013, Monday
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EMIRATES Team New Zealand won the first real race of the America's Cup challenger series, easily beating Italy's Luna Rossa in San Francisco Bay on Saturday.
New Zealand skipper Dean Barker's catamaran came out on top against a familiar foe in the first two-boat race of the Louis Vuitton Cup which serves as the challenger series of the America's Cup event. The Kiwis completed the course in 43 minutes, 52 seconds as they sailed away to win by nearly five and a half minutes on the 15.5 nautical mile course.
New Zealand recorded a top speed of 42.33 knots (77km per hour), compared to Luna Rossa's 39.95 knots.
"There was a really nice public turnout today, good to have two boats out there on the racecourse," said the 40-year-old Barker. "It can only make you better because you put yourself in different positions; you get to find out what's going on around the start line and the first reach. That's all paramount to how the race plays out."
Luna Rossa helmsman Chris Draper said, "We ended up almost where we thought we'd be, probably a little bit worse off. I think the majority of the losses were in boat-handling and a little bit in upwind boat-speed. It's all fixable and we knew that was there, so no massive surprise."
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