:00:32. > :00:39.International sports's oldest trophy is up for grabs again. It has come
:00:40. > :00:46.to Bermuda. Six teams travelled to the North Atlantic. Only two teams
:00:47. > :00:49.remain in contention to stop you were essentially representing a
:00:50. > :00:51.country and a whole legion of fans and you have to take that as
:00:52. > :00:57.motivation and encouragement and that is what we do. There is a lot
:00:58. > :01:01.of pressure and it is something I enjoy. We have been through some
:01:02. > :01:07.pretty tough situations over the past couple of campaigns. You
:01:08. > :01:14.definitely face a lot of adversity along the way as well. One thing is,
:01:15. > :01:22.this team is incredibly resilient and it can bounce back. I am
:01:23. > :01:25.expecting a real fight. Everyone has managed to come through under
:01:26. > :01:32.pressure and make it happen and it feels like it will come down to
:01:33. > :01:37.whoever beats who on the day. When you think you have seen it all, it
:01:38. > :01:43.is time that you are done and I am a long way from that. History is
:01:44. > :01:48.history. But history is repeating itself and the Kiwis are off to
:01:49. > :01:52.another great start. No one in the New Zealand camp will be taking
:01:53. > :01:57.anything for granted. Four years ago they squandered a lead in San
:01:58. > :02:01.Francisco, the Americans performing one of the greatest sporting
:02:02. > :02:04.comebacks helps by Sir Ben Ainslie. This time around Oracle are again
:02:05. > :02:12.starting on the back foot and this is what happened on day one. Here is
:02:13. > :02:19.what the world has been looking for, so much strain and stress on each of
:02:20. > :02:24.these crews. Jimmy Spithill has gone across that line is too quick. It is
:02:25. > :02:31.looking like a really good start to the campaign from the Kiwis. Look at
:02:32. > :02:45.that tack, just flawless. This lead is being built to almost 500 metres.
:02:46. > :02:50.This is not an easy way to finish, Oracle are coming in really fast.
:02:51. > :02:59.The Kiwis know how to make it interesting. The New Zealanders have
:03:00. > :03:03.made a storming start. Really difficult conditions here today.
:03:04. > :03:06.Race number two and Jimmy Spithill has really gone after it this time
:03:07. > :03:12.around, determined to make up for the error. It is an acceleration
:03:13. > :03:24.contest now, who can accelerate the quickest? Wow, New Zealand is
:03:25. > :03:31.tearing it up at the moment. It is very shifty out there in the winter.
:03:32. > :03:36.They are somehow clawing their way back into this contest, the
:03:37. > :03:41.Americans. Jimmy Spithill is breathing down Peter Burling's neck
:03:42. > :03:48.right now and applying the pressure all the time. This is game on. Oh,
:03:49. > :03:56.disappointment for Oracle Team USA fans. They have lost almost 300
:03:57. > :03:59.metres in the gybe. Laying down the gauntlet to the Americans, the Kiwis
:04:00. > :04:08.have torn it up and the Americans have it all to do. These guys at the
:04:09. > :04:12.end of the day made fewer mistakes. If Oracle's good news is they are
:04:13. > :04:19.only one down, what do you take out of it? They are one up. By virtue of
:04:20. > :04:24.winning the first round of qualifiers, America went into this
:04:25. > :04:28.cup contest with a 1-point advantage, so New Zealand may have
:04:29. > :04:33.won the opening two races, but the score is actually 1-0 to the Kiwis.
:04:34. > :04:39.Not the start that Jimmy Spithill would have hoped for. New Zealand
:04:40. > :04:44.was flawless, but today is a different day and the breeze is
:04:45. > :04:48.other bits and the Americans redressed the balance? Let's find
:04:49. > :04:53.out. Race number three under way and
:04:54. > :04:56.Jimmy Spithill needs to come up with some answers posed by Peter
:04:57. > :05:10.Burling's New Zealanders. How are you reading the start,
:05:11. > :05:22.Kenny? They are pushing back pretty aggressively. They went much further
:05:23. > :05:25.down, deeper in the box today. The trend yesterday of getting back to
:05:26. > :05:32.early does not seem like it will continue today. Jimmy Spithill is
:05:33. > :05:36.going after them aggressively. That yellow line on the side of the
:05:37. > :05:45.racecourse, you do not want to go to much beyond that because the other
:05:46. > :05:53.team is New Zealand. Only ten seconds to go until the starting
:05:54. > :05:57.line. The timing is critical. The speed of both of these boats is
:05:58. > :06:03.excellent. Jimmy Spithill this time is straight across the mark and
:06:04. > :06:10.there are no penalties to either team and they are storming to mark
:06:11. > :06:17.one. You would think they would be quicker on this reach, the Oracle
:06:18. > :06:25.Team USA. When they get over the top there is a little burst of speed.
:06:26. > :06:34.But there is an overlap. This will be very tight as to who can get into
:06:35. > :06:39.the box. The New Zealanders have lodged a protest against Oracle Team
:06:40. > :06:47.USA. There is no protest and Jimmy Spithill is free to go. 40 knots
:06:48. > :06:52.from the American team, it is an impressive statistic from the
:06:53. > :06:58.American team so early on. They are going to gybe early and try to split
:06:59. > :07:10.the speed. This is a shorter run than normal. If they can gybe within
:07:11. > :07:19.the second anyway... This is a critical time in the race so early
:07:20. > :07:26.on. Not a perfect gybe by Oracle Team USA. Watch for the wing wash of
:07:27. > :07:35.the Emirates Team New Zealand here, they are soaking. They will try to
:07:36. > :07:52.use their wing wash to slow down the others. The New Zealanders seemingly
:07:53. > :07:55.always comfortable. When their superiority is question, the
:07:56. > :08:03.Americans got off to a good start, but it is the Kiwis in front. They
:08:04. > :08:05.are going to try this tricky manoeuvre right away coming out of
:08:06. > :08:32.this gate. So a split course. They are flying off at five or six
:08:33. > :08:47.knots quicker than their opposition at this point.
:08:48. > :08:57.If you go back to the starting sequence, the Emirates Team New
:08:58. > :09:04.Zealand gybes and there was a little splash down by Oracle and that is
:09:05. > :09:09.all it took. They allowed Emirates Team New Zealand to go slowly down
:09:10. > :09:15.over the top of Oracle and use that dirty air coming off the wing to
:09:16. > :09:33.push them backwards. It opens up to a 150 yards lead in no time. One
:09:34. > :09:36.mistake. The cyclists are head down and trying to palm as much energy
:09:37. > :09:41.through the system as they can to power up the boat. Everything needs
:09:42. > :09:48.to be manipulated by that hydraulic power. 11-12 knots of wind speed
:09:49. > :09:59.right now which you would imagine would be good for Oracle. But you
:10:00. > :10:03.look out on the racecourse... That was not too far away from disastrous
:10:04. > :10:11.for the Americans. There was a big slip. Carbon fibre is not very
:10:12. > :10:26.cushioned. Yesterday we had very shifty
:10:27. > :10:30.conditions, today not quite shifty most likely because the wind is
:10:31. > :10:45.coming into the Great Sound from the ocean. Up on the foils for the
:10:46. > :10:52.entirety of the race, these two. But it is the Kiwis who are flying at
:10:53. > :10:58.the moment. Gerry, is history repeating itself out there today? It
:10:59. > :11:01.seems a little like it. It was just that one little mistake that Oracle
:11:02. > :11:09.made in that gybe that you were talking about that cost them. The
:11:10. > :11:12.Kiwis got a nice little shift. The Kiwis are settling very well and
:11:13. > :11:15.they are attacking in the right spots. It will be difficult to
:11:16. > :11:21.overtake them unless they make a mistake. Tactically the Kiwis were
:11:22. > :11:27.ahead at that first mark, so I am going to stick with that as being
:11:28. > :11:31.the 100% number of never being passed in any race in this entire
:11:32. > :11:37.event so far and that is really incredible. That is a fast boat. A
:11:38. > :11:43.fast boat is a tactician's best friend and it is a fast boat. There
:11:44. > :11:49.was a lot of chat about whether the Americans would try to tweak their
:11:50. > :11:56.foils to assist their front today. We should bring Joey back in. We
:11:57. > :12:03.must be right at that trade-off between high speed and low speed
:12:04. > :12:07.boards for Oracle Team USA. That is right, we are pretty comfortable
:12:08. > :12:15.into the high-speed boards in this race. Their low speed boys are aimed
:12:16. > :12:22.at a slightly higher wind speed. Yesterday when it got really light,
:12:23. > :12:32.Oracle Team USA gave a lot. But the Kiwis have eyes have a nice habit of
:12:33. > :12:45.getting their low speed boys to work. It is an nice habit, it is
:12:46. > :12:51.fine. The tacticians are saying, Jimmy, we have to go, because they
:12:52. > :13:01.are close to the lay line. It is very interesting. They tacked well
:13:02. > :13:06.early at the boundary. I wonder if they will be able to make it through
:13:07. > :13:18.by just one tack. You want to minimise these manoeuvres.
:13:19. > :13:24.Around the gate and again the smooth manoeuvring which is their
:13:25. > :13:33.trademark, the New Zealanders. Comfortable in their lead seemingly.
:13:34. > :13:37.This is kind of a costly manoeuvre. They tacked early and they have
:13:38. > :13:39.worked to the boundary. But they did not make it through, so they had to
:13:40. > :13:54.do one more attack. Just a little more instability in
:13:55. > :14:01.the American operation at the moment although the speed is excellent as
:14:02. > :14:06.they round that gate. A lot of ground to make up, but they are
:14:07. > :14:17.managing to minimise bat at the moment. We saw yesterday, Kenny, a
:14:18. > :14:22.lead of 600 metres wiped out across one leg of the racecourse. That was
:14:23. > :14:27.quite shifty conditions coming off the land and back out to Joey Newton
:14:28. > :14:33.on the water. A little steadier breeze maybe today than yesterday?
:14:34. > :14:38.The breeze is a little more north, so a little more left across the
:14:39. > :14:43.racecourse and the breeze is flowing over less land before it gets to the
:14:44. > :14:48.racecourse. Even though it is a bit shifty, it is not like yesterday.
:14:49. > :14:57.And we have got a few more knots which settles everything out a
:14:58. > :15:01.little bit. Look at the Kiwi line and it seems to be a little bit more
:15:02. > :15:07.open and they are sailing deeper angles, they are sailing a lower
:15:08. > :15:11.angle than Oracle Team USA that is trying desperately to do anything to
:15:12. > :15:20.get back into the race. It is a big lead. Do we feel now it is about the
:15:21. > :15:27.Kiwi mistake for the Americans to crawl their way back in? They are
:15:28. > :15:31.clearly desperate for a Kiwi mistake right now. The only time they made
:15:32. > :15:37.the mistake was right at that bottom gate coming into the finishing line.
:15:38. > :16:00.In the middle of the racecourse they are flawless. Holy mackerel!
:16:01. > :16:10.And there is Peter Burling, you are effectively driving the boat. If you
:16:11. > :16:21.want to be on board a 40 foot yacht, here is your chance everybody.
:16:22. > :16:43.For sure we have heard more chatter from Glenn Ashby and Blair. They are
:16:44. > :16:46.saying anything is good for us at this stage. We want to hear these
:16:47. > :16:59.guys and hear what their strategy is. Glenn Ashby is looking very calm
:17:00. > :17:05.as ever. No winches or hydraulic from the wing spin. We hope to stick
:17:06. > :17:20.our noses into his pocket at some stage.
:17:21. > :17:24.That is from our drone on the racecourse. We have got cameras in
:17:25. > :17:46.all directions here right now. Just pressing this. Stand by. All
:17:47. > :17:56.bases are covered. Three, two, one. Turning. Just waiting for the time
:17:57. > :17:59.when the drone can fly underneath the platform because that is the
:18:00. > :18:06.only picture we cannot bring you right now. The natural progression
:18:07. > :18:10.going up wind and they are going slower so the lead tends to shrink a
:18:11. > :18:16.little bit as the boats go up wind and the boat ahead get that
:18:17. > :18:21.opportunity to take off and use the downwind speed. That was not the
:18:22. > :18:33.best tack by Emirates Team New Zealand there.
:18:34. > :18:38.So the Americans are needing something special from here. The
:18:39. > :18:48.last two legs of this race are not long. They seem to be making some
:18:49. > :18:52.headway. They did a couple of extra tacks. They decided to give up a
:18:53. > :19:01.little bit of their lead in order to touch base with the Americans. Why
:19:02. > :19:06.would you do that? It is more of a traditional match race tactic. You
:19:07. > :19:12.know you will give up a bit of a lead in order just to sail in the
:19:13. > :19:17.same water and in the same approximate wind pressure and wind
:19:18. > :19:27.speed and wind direction of your competitor. Look at the angles of
:19:28. > :19:31.those boards. Very, very different. That kink in the dagger board
:19:32. > :19:38.compared to Oracle Team USA which has much straighter foils. There is
:19:39. > :19:44.no shortage of innovation on this boat, whether it is their wing trim,
:19:45. > :19:52.the foils shapes, the foil movement. Did you hear that? That is the
:19:53. > :19:56.hydraulics of the wing. We talked to Joey earlier and there is a maximum
:19:57. > :20:02.depth that the boards are allowed to be at under the boat and that kink
:20:03. > :20:07.allows the board to be at the maximum draft or depth of the boat
:20:08. > :20:20.where the foils can be under the water.
:20:21. > :20:32.Three is it is interesting to see the heart rates of some of the
:20:33. > :20:37.individuals involved. They generate the power just a little bit easier
:20:38. > :20:46.than the traditional grinders. The Americans have a hybrid system with
:20:47. > :20:53.one bike in the back. We will keep a close eye on them over the next week
:20:54. > :20:54.or so. The more races we have, the more we can analyse that data a bit
:20:55. > :21:29.more clearly. Again they will be looking for a
:21:30. > :21:34.split, anything right now. At some stage of the race you need not only
:21:35. > :21:38.a mistake, but a gift from the heavens, an act of God, and massive
:21:39. > :21:45.wind shift, some sort of drama from your competitor. As we have seen far
:21:46. > :21:56.too many times these guys do not tend to give it away. This will be
:21:57. > :22:08.tight. Oracle is trying to create a bit of a situation. They are
:22:09. > :22:12.protesting. You wonder if Oracle tacked them in that position to
:22:13. > :22:22.create a setup. That is all school tactics as well. To be honest I am
:22:23. > :22:27.not sure why they pushed the button there. That was a boat tactic.
:22:28. > :22:32.Probably a degree of desperation at this point because they are so far
:22:33. > :22:37.back. The Kiwis are heading up to the final mark and then it will be
:22:38. > :22:50.the route to the finish. The Americans at the moment cannot buy a
:22:51. > :22:54.race win. This is looking ominous. Not many people predicted this sort
:22:55. > :23:04.of domination. This is absolute domination at this stage.
:23:05. > :23:26.Hit it. Go, Louis, go, Louis. Nice work, boys. Tom Slingsby into the
:23:27. > :23:31.bike. The sign of a leader, trying to keep them positive on board
:23:32. > :23:41.because it is pretty easy to get very down when you have this sort of
:23:42. > :23:48.deficit. This is the final mark that the Kiwis have to navigate their way
:23:49. > :23:54.around. They are on the reach to the finish. It is a pretty long reach
:23:55. > :23:59.today. Yesterday you had that continuation of downwind and today
:24:00. > :24:12.is very different. They are streaming towards the finish line.
:24:13. > :24:26.Today it is just a pretty solid pitching wedge to the finish line.
:24:27. > :24:31.All done with the minimum of fuss. They have a seemingly wonderful
:24:32. > :24:35.distribution of responsibilities and labour and they have worked out an
:24:36. > :24:46.excellent system, Glenn Ashby, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke. A few Kiwi
:24:47. > :24:53.fans waving their flags out front right now. The New Zealanders
:24:54. > :24:58.picking up where they left off yesterday and ripping into a 2-0
:24:59. > :25:04.lead in the match. They have won all three of the three and are leaving
:25:05. > :25:17.the USA trailing in their wake right now. Just looking in such dominant
:25:18. > :25:23.form. They have ploughed their own furrow. They have done the right
:25:24. > :25:28.thing, they have trained in New Zealand away from the majority of
:25:29. > :25:36.the rest of the fleet and they have been innovating and coming up with a
:25:37. > :25:41.plan and now they are executing it. This is going to be a very
:25:42. > :25:46.comfortable last ride in for Jimmy Spittal and his crew. He would have
:25:47. > :25:50.been hoping to have at least remedied some of their problems
:25:51. > :25:58.overnight. It seems they are right up against it. Two races in a row.
:25:59. > :26:04.Especially as the breeze came up today, I think everybody around
:26:05. > :26:07.Bermuda right now, America's Cup veterans and pundits and all
:26:08. > :26:14.involved, thought that extra bit of breeze would be good for Oracle. If
:26:15. > :26:16.you are a USA fan, that race is an ominous sign. What a dominant
:26:17. > :26:23.performance from the young Peter Burling. You have to be impressed by
:26:24. > :26:35.the speed of these boats, up to four times the wind speed. How does it
:26:36. > :26:39.work? Here is Iain Percy to explain. Apparent wind is the wind that you
:26:40. > :26:43.feel when you are moving along, like when you put your head out of the
:26:44. > :26:47.window in a car on the freeway and you will feel the wind in your face
:26:48. > :26:54.regardless of where it is coming from. With that apparent wind you
:26:55. > :26:59.get faster and you get more wind and when you accelerate, the apparent
:27:00. > :27:03.wind increases and you accelerate more. I am on the bike now and I am
:27:04. > :27:09.not moving and the wind is coming from the left. As we start to
:27:10. > :27:13.accelerate we expect the apparent wind to move forward and eventually
:27:14. > :27:22.it will be in front of me. I start to move and we see what happens. We
:27:23. > :27:29.come to about 90 and the speed goes up and it turns in front of me more.
:27:30. > :27:33.We showed on the bike that when you started going faster, the apparent
:27:34. > :27:38.wind goes forward, but it also increases. In a sailing boat, the
:27:39. > :27:42.more wind you have, the faster you go, so the apparent wind generates
:27:43. > :27:46.more wind which allows you to go faster and it generates more wind
:27:47. > :27:50.and you end up feeling wind three times the actual breeze and using
:27:51. > :27:54.that to go three times the speed of the wind. As we get faster, the wind
:27:55. > :28:13.will go in front of Because we generate so much speed,
:28:14. > :28:18.especially upwind, our apparent winds get very high. Because of
:28:19. > :28:22.that, the drag on these boats, which traditionally has been about
:28:23. > :28:27.hydrodynamics becomes about aerodynamics. The design of the boat
:28:28. > :28:31.references the hull but also the aerodynamic drag of the boat, the
:28:32. > :28:39.crew and the wing. That allows us to create these incredible speeds on
:28:40. > :28:44.the water. Race number four of the America's
:28:45. > :28:48.Cup match. The defenders in some trouble. Last chance for them to
:28:49. > :28:53.rescue the situation today and spend their next few days rather more free
:28:54. > :29:07.of angst and worry. New Zealand entered the start line box and
:29:08. > :29:10.immediately had either a bad jibe. They stop there for a second,
:29:11. > :29:15.whether they have lack of power, something went really horribly
:29:16. > :29:19.wrong. It has set them up to be in a kind of a tricky predicament here.
:29:20. > :29:29.They're being put very early to the start. Oracle trying to hook them.
:29:30. > :29:34.He's defending it incredibly well. He is really in a tough spot and
:29:35. > :29:38.team New Zealand could be in a good position off this line. Incredible
:29:39. > :29:44.comeback in this pre-start by Emirates Team New Zealand. That is
:29:45. > :29:49.the hand-to-hand combat that you've mentioned throughout this America's
:29:50. > :29:54.Cup campaign. The New Zealanders off out in front yet again and holding
:29:55. > :30:01.off the challenge of Spithill in the pre-start. Very similar to the last
:30:02. > :30:05.race, except they've swapped sides. Emirates Team New Zealand reach over
:30:06. > :30:11.the top of Oracle Team USA by mark number one? Will they reach over the
:30:12. > :30:15.top? They are. They're going four knots quicker. They're going to slow
:30:16. > :30:26.down oracle before they get to the mark. Man oh, man, four races in a
:30:27. > :30:31.row. There's the wing wash. Causing all kinds of bother of Oracle Team
:30:32. > :30:34.USA. Right now that will be the least of their concerns. They've got
:30:35. > :30:37.to find a way into this contest somehow. They've been taken to the
:30:38. > :30:45.cleaners frankly in the opening three races.
:30:46. > :30:57.Put being to the test. Jimmy Spithill was expecting the battle of
:30:58. > :31:02.his life, as he exraned in the pre-match press -- explained in the
:31:03. > :31:08.pre-match press conference. He's in the thick of it right now. Very
:31:09. > :31:14.similar to race number one, with almost identical boat speeds going
:31:15. > :31:19.down wind. It's upwind that the kiwis have a dominant set up in that
:31:20. > :31:38.first race today. This 11, 12 knots of wind speed.
:31:39. > :31:44.Consetently a couple of knots quicker. Upwind, downwind doesn't
:31:45. > :31:46.make much difference to them. The Americans have to find a way to
:31:47. > :32:19.negate that. Split course. The Americans right
:32:20. > :32:24.now they need wind from somewhere. To really propel them forwards.
:32:25. > :32:29.They're looking like they're in big trouble. I wish we could say their
:32:30. > :32:38.manoeuvres were slower. I wish we could say their jibes were worse.
:32:39. > :32:43.The fact is they look pretty good. It's not like in the earlier rounds
:32:44. > :32:49.in the times that we would see a team make one big critical error and
:32:50. > :32:56.lose 150 metres immediately. This is like a slow triple death, that is
:32:57. > :33:08.just one metre at a time. And consistent.
:33:09. > :33:16.Can I ways will attack to stay in the -- kiwis will attack to stay in
:33:17. > :33:19.the middle of the racecourse. Only slow down to 19 knots in the middle
:33:20. > :33:26.of that tack. You can tack as much as you want if you're only going to
:33:27. > :34:00.slow down at 19 knots. The Americans tacking. The course
:34:01. > :34:02.laid out for you left, bottom left of your screen. That's where they
:34:03. > :34:21.are currently. The Emirates Team New Zealand has
:34:22. > :34:33.tacked in a fairly traditional match racing position on top of Oracle
:34:34. > :34:40.Team USA. We look at these boats and this has been quit, whether it's
:34:41. > :34:44.been -- consistent, whether it's been Emirates or oracle. We're going
:34:45. > :34:50.to get a visual here in a minute. It shows just the angle difference.
:34:51. > :34:52.It's something as a sailor we love the fact that you can point higher
:34:53. > :34:58.than another boat. You couldn't think it would be a big deal in
:34:59. > :35:06.foiling catamarans going 27 knots of wind. But any little advantage, that
:35:07. > :35:11.EMB advantage that I've been trying to train you about, it's not easy to
:35:12. > :35:17.do. It's a slightly complicated thing. The boat's velocity in the
:35:18. > :35:25.direction of your destination. That's not bad. Getting there. The
:35:26. > :35:32.angles I think are relatively straightforward because if can you
:35:33. > :35:35.get a sharper angle up to the gate, you're making more ground up the
:35:36. > :35:39.course per manoeuvre. Every time we talk about this and how the kiwis
:35:40. > :35:44.are dominating, you go to the bottom of each of the sites here and USA is
:35:45. > :35:52.actually going better, as VMG upwind. They might be in a little
:35:53. > :35:55.bit more breeze. Here comes another tack from Oracle Team USA. Again,
:35:56. > :36:00.they've been really good on the tacks. They've been solid on the
:36:01. > :36:08.manoeuvres. I'm going to guess that they're pleased with how those are
:36:09. > :36:13.going. Back out to Joey for a second on the water. The manoeuvres look
:36:14. > :36:18.great. The tacks look great. The jibes look, for the most part,
:36:19. > :36:23.great. Just a little off the pace. Yeah, it's certainly what it looks
:36:24. > :36:29.like. The kiwis slippery down wind. USA paid a little bit the split at
:36:30. > :36:35.the bottom. The kiwis doing a nice job of tacking in the right spot.
:36:36. > :36:40.Getting in between oracle and the mast, now they're -- mark. Now
:36:41. > :36:43.tacking in the right place. They're extending so much. When the boat
:36:44. > :36:47.ahead plays the wind shifts correctly, even if they're in an
:36:48. > :36:50.even boat, you're not going to pass them. That's the bottom line. Joey's
:36:51. > :36:55.right. They're just tacking in the right spot. They're minimising their
:36:56. > :36:58.manoeuvres. They're playing match race games and tacking on the other
:36:59. > :37:04.boat when they need to. Then they split away from them and minimise a
:37:05. > :37:07.tack coming into the mark. It's texts book now. It's clin cull at
:37:08. > :37:15.this stage for Emirates Team New Zealand. That seems to be a goodage
:37:16. > :37:20.ebbing Tiff to describe this man, Peter Burling. He's clinical, cool.
:37:21. > :37:24.He's instinctive as well. He's seeing where the wind shifts may be.
:37:25. > :37:33.Seeing what the best path might be, all the time eyes up. Very natural
:37:34. > :37:40.sailor. Everybody involved in the sport says what a natural talent he
:37:41. > :37:51.has for it. Started out in the Red Bull America's Cup. Came up through
:37:52. > :38:01.that programme. This is another launching going on right here now
:38:02. > :38:06.for the kiwis. I guess we mentioned earlier, for oracle, this is a big
:38:07. > :38:11.race. Because you don't want to go into what is essentially a by-week.
:38:12. > :38:14.Five days off on such a downer. At the same time, they might be
:38:15. > :38:19.thinking, whoa, back to the drawing board here. In its own way that's
:38:20. > :38:22.kind of shocking. You would have thought after the last two weeks
:38:23. > :38:27.they had to develop their boat, they would have come out ready to start
:38:28. > :38:30.to do some thrashing. But they are clearly not the faster boat here.
:38:31. > :38:47.The faster boat always wins the America's Cup. We had that debate
:38:48. > :38:54.yesterday. The Kiwis match tough having come through the challenge of
:38:55. > :39:03.play-offs and they are very much in charge of operations at the moment.
:39:04. > :39:14.Not only must it be a blast to sail a boat like that on a day like
:39:15. > :39:22.today, but to be just crushing oracle in the America's Cup right
:39:23. > :39:36.now. Getting a workout. I hope he's taken his sea sickness pills.
:39:37. > :39:44.Just effortless. It isn't of course, but it looks it. He's got numbers on
:39:45. > :39:50.his wrist. He's got numbers here. Push buttons there. They cleared
:39:51. > :39:55.thing out for Burling, those are numbers to help him with how fast
:39:56. > :40:05.the boat is going. They're going 32 knots. Let's look with Jimmy here.
:40:06. > :40:10.Burling is down in the cockpit all the time, that low windage. Jimmy
:40:11. > :40:15.has to see up and over all these guys standing up in front of him. So
:40:16. > :40:20.we don't see down in his cockpit just because of the positioning of
:40:21. > :40:24.how, where these guys sit in their own personal cockpits. He's taking
:40:25. > :40:35.care of the winch as well now. Totally different set ups. He cleets
:40:36. > :40:45.down the winch. Runs across. Slingsby is on the wheat. -- wheel.
:40:46. > :40:49.Then pumping some hydraulic fluid. You see the heart rates of the
:40:50. > :40:58.grinders. They're all much, much higher than the cyclists. They
:40:59. > :41:00.typically are. I'm sure we can get a doctor in here and I'm not even
:41:01. > :41:16.going to speculate. You keep calling this a slick
:41:17. > :41:28.operation, I think that's the understatement of the century right
:41:29. > :41:34.now. Just barely see those hulls dropping, extending higher. They are
:41:35. > :41:39.moved as crisply as is humanly possible. There will be a split at
:41:40. > :41:45.this bottom gate. Oracle jibing, one and in to the gate. They will take
:41:46. > :41:49.the other side. At least in this race here, it's becoming desperation
:41:50. > :41:53.time. They need, again as we talked about in the last race, they need a
:41:54. > :42:07.wind shift or wind pressure miracle at this stage.
:42:08. > :42:21.There's the drone shot. The Americans hunting for wind. They are
:42:22. > :42:26.going to have to talk to the drone operators to see if we can get them
:42:27. > :42:39.to take a shot in between those two hulls. Maybe the last day.
:42:40. > :42:51.Touch-and-go - it's not going to be a great foiling tack. The hull will
:42:52. > :42:55.go in the water for a time. In the background the stands and the people
:42:56. > :43:07.and the incredible race village that's been built here in Bermuda.
:43:08. > :43:13.Heading up to gate five, upwind. The wind shift only a small one to the
:43:14. > :43:19.right-hand side? Yeah, tiny little wind shift. They close up a little
:43:20. > :43:22.bit because Emirates Team New Zealand did a couple extra tacks in
:43:23. > :43:27.order to just kind of control the situation. It looks like chaotic
:43:28. > :43:31.control, but it's control. They've positioned themselves in a similar
:43:32. > :43:35.part of the racecourse, almost directly upwind from Oracle Team
:43:36. > :43:41.USA. They've given up a little bit of their lead, but again, as a
:43:42. > :43:46.tactitioner, you're looking over your shoulder downwind right now and
:43:47. > :43:48.you see oracle in your peripheral vision and you're very happy,
:43:49. > :43:54.content. They're not going the other way, I got this right now. It's just
:43:55. > :43:59.a perfect set up. It's becoming a familiar sight for the kiwis at this
:44:00. > :44:05.point. What you're saying is they've relinquished a bit of their lead so
:44:06. > :44:08.they can have the Americans at arm's length, they've effectively got
:44:09. > :44:15.their fist on the collar of Jimmy Spithill? Holing him back? Yeah --
:44:16. > :44:18.holding him back? Yeah. You mentioned it earlier in the
:44:19. > :44:23.broadcast, you would have thought they'd have pulled out all their
:44:24. > :44:27.toys to come out of the blocks here. They've known for a good solid four,
:44:28. > :44:33.five days what the wind strength was going to be the first two days.
:44:34. > :44:35.That's about how good the long-term forecasts, predictions. You're going
:44:36. > :44:41.upwind, you look at the angle differences. Here's oracle and team
:44:42. > :44:47.New Zealand there. Just a constant higher angle. We saw it against art
:44:48. > :44:52.miss last week -- artimis last week. When they sail with these boards,
:44:53. > :44:56.they point higher with the wind. That's a higher VMG. It's a dominant
:44:57. > :45:09.mode for them upwind, which is so powerful when you're match racing.
:45:10. > :45:16.We're getting to your new best -- to know your new best friend just a
:45:17. > :45:21.little better. That's not a conventional meeting position, is
:45:22. > :45:24.it? No. Unless you're canine. OK, that was almost too far. There's got
:45:25. > :45:37.to be a downside to everything, right? It is very hard to know what
:45:38. > :45:42.the Americans can do to force the pace from here. It is probably
:45:43. > :45:45.reliant on an error and a fairly sizeable one from the Kiwis. If you
:45:46. > :45:53.are on the American boat now, are you hoping beyond hope that next
:45:54. > :45:58.weekend the gales come? OK, at least it's a strategy. Hope is not - Is
:45:59. > :46:06.not a good strategy. No, it's not a great strategy. They've all known
:46:07. > :46:10.for years what the average wind speed here in Bermuda was going to
:46:11. > :46:14.be this week. At least you take a guess at it, of course. It can be a
:46:15. > :46:18.bit of everything. The wind gods do what they want. But I've seen
:46:19. > :46:22.somewhere between that eight to 11 knot range as an average wind speed
:46:23. > :46:29.here this time of the year. I've seen it off tons of different
:46:30. > :46:39.weather forecasters sheets. Tacking. Hold on. You can see, when you see
:46:40. > :46:42.it upclose that like, you can tell how simple it would be just to lob
:46:43. > :46:51.somebody off the edge. Wouldn't take an awful lot. Not just strength
:46:52. > :47:01.required from those on board. A bit of balance too.
:47:02. > :47:11.Into gate five. They will go downwind for one final leg. They
:47:12. > :47:14.will reach to the final. They will be feeling extremely happy with the
:47:15. > :47:21.way their campaign is progressing at the moment. Concentration and focus
:47:22. > :47:34.required. History tells us that they have that in spades. Just screaming
:47:35. > :47:45.across the water. Absolute dominance at this stage.
:47:46. > :47:52.This is Peter Burling, right in front is Glenn. He's always down
:47:53. > :47:57.inside that little - you can see a box. He's got a box in his hand
:47:58. > :48:02.right there. I know I'm a terrible circle drawer, I've been told! He's
:48:03. > :48:06.controlling the twist, the camber and the sheet, the in and out all
:48:07. > :48:11.with his thumbs. There's no winch involved. There's no nothing. It's
:48:12. > :48:17.really a fascinating set up as to how you take the aerodynamic, we
:48:18. > :48:21.talk about the hydrodynamics all the time, it's the aerodynamic part of
:48:22. > :48:25.the project. There he is again. Zoom in, there's Glenn, that box he's
:48:26. > :48:30.holding onto and controlling everything. You see the wing going
:48:31. > :48:34.in and out right there. In and out. But it's not just that, he's
:48:35. > :48:40.controlling the twist of the wing, the camber of the wing. Absolutely
:48:41. > :48:46.revolutionary with regard to how they're trimming and how the set up
:48:47. > :48:50.of this boat works. It must be really strange for somebody like
:48:51. > :48:54.Glenn, who has been trimming sails and steering boats his whole life to
:48:55. > :49:03.not have a rope in his hand. It had to take some real getting ugzed to.
:49:04. > :49:12.-- getting used to. A lead of almost 900 metres for Emirates Team New
:49:13. > :49:14.Zealand. They are the challengers. Beaten challenger, of course, four
:49:15. > :49:18.years ago from a position of enormous dominance. Whilst the
:49:19. > :49:22.Americans will be deeply concerned they will also perhaps be clinging
:49:23. > :49:28.to a little bit of hope that they can find a way back in. It's not
:49:29. > :49:32.over till it's over. That's what San Francisco taught us. Let's go back
:49:33. > :49:38.to Joey for a second, it's going to be a long week, obviously in the
:49:39. > :49:43.oracle camp, but boy oh, boy, what can you pull out of the box right
:49:44. > :49:46.now? Do you think the Kiwis have been saving stuff themselves? Is
:49:47. > :49:50.this a different boat than what you thought you'd be racing against? It
:49:51. > :49:54.is a little bit. The America's Cup is about learning and evolving and
:49:55. > :49:58.changing and getting the boat faster as you go through the event. This
:49:59. > :50:01.boat we're seeing today, the New Zealand boat, is quicker than the
:50:02. > :50:06.one we raced a few weeks ago. They've evolved quicker than the
:50:07. > :50:10.American boat. We'll go away this week and have Frank discussions. The
:50:11. > :50:15.boys will be thinking about what we're going to do to mould the boat
:50:16. > :50:19.differently to match or leapfrog the kiwi boat. It's happened before. It
:50:20. > :50:23.happened in San Francisco. I tell you what, this has a little
:50:24. > :50:30.different feel to it, I have to tell you. Tearing down the runway, the
:50:31. > :50:36.New Zealanders, victory in their sights. Hordes of supporters on the
:50:37. > :50:43.shore line. Of course, all those boats out there too. It has been
:50:44. > :50:48.such a dominant, impressive display. Peter Burling at the helm. And right
:50:49. > :50:53.now the Kiwis are hammering the Americans. Four races, four wins.
:50:54. > :51:11.They are cleaning up. And the New Zealanders putting on a
:51:12. > :51:18.show for all those watching here in Bermuda and of course, thousands,
:51:19. > :51:23.millions around the world too. Those on the north and south islands will
:51:24. > :51:26.be delighted with what they've seen. Hoping beyond hope that they can see
:51:27. > :51:33.it through, all the way to the end now. Get it done. Get it finished.
:51:34. > :51:37.Bring that trophy back to New Zealand for the Americans, goodness,
:51:38. > :51:39.it's going to be a very uncomfortable few days for Jimmy
:51:40. > :51:46.Spithill and his crew. A sombre team. A sombre camp right now for
:51:47. > :51:50.Oracle Team USA. A lot of sombre fans here in Bermuda. I don't think
:51:51. > :51:57.anybody saw this coming. Maybe the Kiwis did. But I'm not so sure
:51:58. > :52:03.anybody else did. They're trailing in beyond the minute mark as well.
:52:04. > :52:08.The margins of victory, the margins are large. They really are big. No
:52:09. > :52:13.matter what Jimmy Spithill is trying to tell us, that was a pounding.
:52:14. > :52:18.After two days of racing, the Americans are in big, big trouble.
:52:19. > :52:22.Not quite a crisis of San Francisco proportions just yet. But the red
:52:23. > :52:24.lights are blinking. That's very well put.
:52:25. > :52:42.The standings therefore looking like this:
:52:43. > :52:46.Shell shocked Team USA after such a dominant New Zealand performance.
:52:47. > :52:50.How dot Americans come back from this? We'll discuss that in a
:52:51. > :52:56.moment, let's first hear from the skippers. You had the look of a man
:52:57. > :53:02.who's quite stunned by what's happened the last two days, sum up
:53:03. > :53:06.how hard this is being America's Cup skipper in this position? I'm not
:53:07. > :53:10.stunned. You know, I'm more motivated that we've got to do some
:53:11. > :53:15.changes. I think we're a team that's been in this position in the past.
:53:16. > :53:18.You look, we have beaten these guys. We've taken race wins. We won the
:53:19. > :53:22.qualifiers for a reason. We've got a great team. We know we've got a good
:53:23. > :53:26.boat. We've got to improve it more. We've got to take good steps. What's
:53:27. > :53:31.in our favour is we're not at match point. We have five days. We're not
:53:32. > :53:35.really even halfway through the competition. There's still a lot
:53:36. > :53:38.left on the table. I think we're going to be quite aggressive with
:53:39. > :53:43.our changes. We're going to do everything we can to get this boat
:53:44. > :53:48.faster. The New Zealanders seem flawless, I mean, often you get that
:53:49. > :53:53.with boat speed, tactical genius. What areas do you think that you are
:53:54. > :53:57.weak in and can improve in the time left? I think everything. We really
:53:58. > :54:02.need to sharpen up in all areas. I don't think just making a change in
:54:03. > :54:07.one area will be enough. You have to be good at everything. I don't think
:54:08. > :54:11.the Kiwis have been flawless. I think Pete's candidly said they've
:54:12. > :54:16.made mistakes. These boats, they produce mistakes because they are so
:54:17. > :54:20.challenging to sail. Again, we've beaten these guys before. We've won
:54:21. > :54:23.races. We can do it again. We've got five great days here. We'll use
:54:24. > :54:28.every single minute of the five days. Massive congratulations, what
:54:29. > :54:33.a dominant performance. What's the mood in the camp? How pleased is
:54:34. > :54:37.everyone? We're really excited with the way we sailed today. But I think
:54:38. > :54:41.at the same time, we made a lot of errors. We have a lot of things to
:54:42. > :54:45.work on and improve on. Today was obviously great to get another two
:54:46. > :54:48.points on the board. We made it no secret we've come here to win the
:54:49. > :54:52.America's Cup. We have to win eight races to do that. We've managed to
:54:53. > :54:57.win four races now. We definitely do feel like we're not even halfway
:54:58. > :55:00.there. The next race this coming weekend are going to be tougher than
:55:01. > :55:08.they were today. We're setting up for a good battle. To use a kiwi
:55:09. > :55:11.expression, I mean you've got whales in abundance. Does it feel like that
:55:12. > :55:15.when you're racing and how come you're so much faster? The thing
:55:16. > :55:19.people aren't talking about today, it was shifty out there, a tricky
:55:20. > :55:23.race track. I think we did a really good job staying in the puffs. Every
:55:24. > :55:27.time we seem to split from them, we get a good shift and come back a lot
:55:28. > :55:31.further ahead. I think that's full credit to the communication on
:55:32. > :55:36.board, the way the guys are sailing and improving. Now we're all hungry
:55:37. > :55:40.to learn. We know we have a lot we can improve on. A lot to learn on.
:55:41. > :55:44.However we feel like we're going pretty well at the moment. We'll be
:55:45. > :55:48.better next weekend than we are now. If you look back to the qualifiers
:55:49. > :55:52.we were clearly competitive and we could beat them. Yesterday, I
:55:53. > :55:56.thought they had quite a big edge on us. Today we definitely bridged that
:55:57. > :56:00.gap. We need to keep moving at that rate. If we can keep making those
:56:01. > :56:04.development steps over the next five days, we have the ability to take a
:56:05. > :56:08.step over them. It's been quite the day here. Joining me to discuss it
:56:09. > :56:13.is former America's Cup skipper Ian Walker. Jimmy Spithill on the ropes?
:56:14. > :56:17.He's not on the ropes. He's on the floor right now. I mean, we saw
:56:18. > :56:21.Anthony Joshua get up and that's what he's got to do. As we've seen
:56:22. > :56:26.in the past, if any team can do that it would be Oracle Team USA. They
:56:27. > :56:30.now have five days off. How happy is Jimmy going to be about that and
:56:31. > :56:34.what can they realistically achieve? I think without being inside their
:56:35. > :56:37.four walls, we won't really know what's possible. We've seen in the
:56:38. > :56:41.past how much they've been able to turn things around. We've seen with
:56:42. > :56:45.these boats that small changes can make bit changes in boat speed. It
:56:46. > :56:50.just already seems a long time ago that they won the round Robin
:56:51. > :56:54.series. Here we are and they are staring at a 4-0 record in the
:56:55. > :56:59.final. They've got to do something fast. Four years ago, we saw them
:57:00. > :57:04.come back in dramatic fashion in San Francisco. There's a might, a
:57:05. > :57:07.machine around oracle. Yeah they've got a lot of resources. Jimmy
:57:08. > :57:10.himself will know he's got to sail better. He needs to start better.
:57:11. > :57:14.They've got to get round that first mark in first position. That's the
:57:15. > :57:19.only way I think they're going to beat Emirates Team New Zealand. On
:57:20. > :57:23.top of that, they need some speed. For that they'll need the boat
:57:24. > :57:27.builders to work overtime. Your thoughts on the Kiwis, they seem to
:57:28. > :57:30.have speed to burn. Why is that? What package have they got that
:57:31. > :57:34.no-one else has? There's a number of things on their boat that stand out.
:57:35. > :57:37.The obvious one to the viewers is the cycle, the bikes on board, which
:57:38. > :57:43.is generating more hydraulic oil which they can use to trim the wing
:57:44. > :57:46.in a different way. They trim in a very different way less dynamic,
:57:47. > :57:49.more using the twist of the wing than the other teams. Also you can
:57:50. > :57:53.see on the board shape, that's very different. Some of that stuff is
:57:54. > :57:58.hard to match for oracle at this stage. That is at the foundation of
:57:59. > :58:01.decision of the boat. If there is one team that can come back from
:58:02. > :58:04.this, we've seen it before, it's Team USA. Join us next Sunday at 1pm
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