Alinghi Red Bull Racing gave the America’s Cup world a glimpse toward the future on Saturday as the team debuted their new deck layout and reduced numbers as a result taking the crew down to eight and bringing aero cyclors into the Swiss mix.
Word coming out of the Alinghi Red Bull Racing camp is that Arnaud Psarofaghis is absolutely ‘unbeatable’ on the team’s simulator and as skipper he’s wearing the leadership cap well and very much growing into his new status. There’s a lot of pressure on his shoulders but as one of the coolest, and nicest, characters in the America’s Cup, he’s taking it all in his stride, grateful for the opportunity and determined to lead the team to victory. Who’d bet against him? In interview afterwards, Arnaud was his usual affable self, saying: It was a really good day for us after the stop of the boat in the shed and all the modifications that we’ve done so it was a really good commissioning day, and we could even push to try to do as many manoeuvres as we could because we made some changes so just need to set up everything. It was a really good day out sailing, great conditions bit of swell from the east direction but much better than we could expect.”
Section 41. Reconnaissance
a) As a campaign cost reduction measure, COR/D has mutually agreed to cooperatively implement a centralised reconnaissance programme for all teams for the reconnaissance of all Competitors’ AC75 Yachts, AC40 Yachts and LEQ12 yachts including both on-land and on-water imagery (the “Joint Recon Programme”).
b) Each team is assigned a two-person Recon Unit to follow their every on-water move, but it’s not that simple. The cameras are supplied and identical for all Recon Units. Drones are not allowed, and they can’t get that close, plus following a boat and keeping a camera steady at 45 knots isn’t that easy to begin with.
c) A three minute interview follows each on water day, and teams must answer the Recon Unit’s questions while trying not to give too much away. It’s a raw, unedited view of the never before seen behind-the-scenes development of a team and their boat to win the oldest trophy in international sports.
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