Race 5 and 6 Highlights Sailing: America's Cup

The battle for international sports trophy has reached its final weekend

in Bermuda. After five weeks of at times thrilling competition, just

two teams are left vying for a couple born in Britain 166 years

ago. They call it the greatest race on

water but in the first weekend of the America's Cup match between

Oracle Team USA and Emirates Team New Zealand, it was all one-way

traffic. Here we go, this is what everybody has been waiting for.

Jimmy Spithill's against Peter Burling's New Zealanders. Match is

on. The Americans are away but they have

a penalty right at the outset. Emirates Team New Zealand flying up

on the foils. They are using the legs and Oracle using their arms.

New Zealand are capitalising on the start line penalty, stretching away.

They are coming in fast right now. Really fast. The New Zealanders have

made a storming start to the America's Cup match, whitening out

that one point advantage the USA had. Both are across the line now.

Acceleration contest now. Who can accelerate the quickest? The

Americans having to play catch up. It's was not part of the game plan.

The Kiwis are doing whatever they want at will. Those radical turns at

times. The way they throw those boughs around. What a start to this

match. A blistering opening. Two victories from two. I felt like our

boat was going really fast. Good news is, we're only one back.

The speed of these boats, Jimmy Spithill's team straight across the

mark. No penalty. They are going to gybe early and try to split New

Zealand's speed. A critical time in the race. Watch for the winged wash

of Emirates Team New Zealand. They win the first battle. Oracle trying

to create a better situation on the racecourse. 700 metres might as well

be in the next country. Upwind, downwind, doesn't seem to make too

much difference and right now, the Kiwis are hammering the Americans.

Four races, Watto victories, they are cleaning up. Our team is really

hungry to keep learning and keep moving forward and keep improving.

We know if we stand still, these guys will catch us. These guys are

faster and we need to make some serious changes. These next five

days will be the most important five days of the campaign. By virtue of

winning the first round of the America's Cup qualifying in Bermuda,

Oracle took a bonus point into the series. Although New Zealand won all

four races, the lead is 3-0 going into race five. It is fantastic

sailing conditions. Here on the Great Sound. Much anticipation. Have

Oracle done enough? Let's join our commentary team. COMMENTATOR: Race

number five is underway and we get our first chance to analyse just how

Jimmy Spithill's Americans have changed things. Have they come up

with any answers to the speed and consistency of New Zealand? Both

boats began tracking back to the starting line. 45 seconds to go and

you will see that starting line at the top of your screen. Team New

Zealand taking solace down on that mainline, that yellow line, about as

close as they ever want to get. Oracle will be committed to the high

side. A lot of time to kill for these two boats. Oracle speeding up

the line with 17 seconds left. Now they are slowing down, this will be

about time and distance. America has picked up a penalty on the start

line in the first race of the match and they need to be very careful.

They are perilously close as the clock ticks down. They are across

the line too early, yet again, they have gone too soon. The New

Zealanders will look to make hay in the meantime. Oracle Team USA have

to drop two boat length behind the Kiwis so advantage New Zealand yet

again at the start. In the first race Oracle Team USA was over early,

it was close. That was just pulling the bow down to soon and simply

going for it with a fraction of a second. That was super close, I am

sure we will see a review of that. That was very close. Screaming

across the water, 30 plus knots. The Kiwis in front at Marc Warren. They

are close to 40 knots with a wind speed of only half not. That gives

you some indication of just how much pace generated by these flying

machines. We will reel out that stat again. The New Zealanders, when they

are first to the first mark have a 100% success rate in the races.

100%. That goes all the way back to the very first race they sailed in

the challenger trials in the latter contest early on. It's not a great

start if you are an American fan, no doubt.

Both terms driving near the boundary. This is a replay of the

start line. That red line is the start line, an imaginary line. You

will see Oracle Team USA just a fraction early. My goodness. This is

not done by the naked eye, these boats are now too fast. This is done

electronically in the back room to make measurements within centimetres

of accuracy. Someone sitting in a dark room making these decisions.

Not necessarily a human out on the racecourse. In the gate two. New

Zealanders in front and they want to dictate a little bit. What will the

decision be? Follow them round the mark. Oracle kept it close. By the

first gate in the first couple of races, there was quite a wide gap.

The attack from the Americans, not the cleanest of manoeuvres. They

have recovered decently enough. As the Kiwis go about their business in

the usual slick, crisp fashion. Radical turns speed. We have become

used to it. When we talked to Freddie Carr in the pre-start, we go

back to him in a minute, these guys who do this every single day, like

Freddie has, they see things we clearly do not. There is no doubt

Oracle has worked very hard to tighten up the boat this past week.

There is a maximum weight limit and a minimum weight limit and they are

about 100 kilos apart and they supposedly worked very hard to get

down to the minimum. This is boat speeds, we haven't seen them...

Encouraging signs for Jimmy Spithill's. Dial down. Start the

attack, advantage Oracle. Dial down Emirates Team New Zealand, has to

get behind the first pass. The first path we have seen at this event.

Seminal moment and the Americans will be absolutely thrilled to see

it. The support on the shore, spent a very anxious few days knowing that

they are against the clock really, those five legs they have had to

tweak and just has not been enough. Engineers, fans, designers, sailing

team, families, waiting for that moment right there. Five days of

work, was it worthwhile and sure enough, they are quicker right now,

no doubt. Let's have another word with Freddie Carr out of the water.

We have seen the Americans move in front, is a clear and obvious to you

that the changes have worked? I think you can say that for sure.

Oracle are fastest through the water. Two standout things for me as

I was right in next Oracle, they are not dropping the dagger about all

the way down to extension so effectively not going all the way to

extension of that opens up the angle and make the boat faster. Never

dialled down here. The riders look different to me. A step closer to

New Zealand's rudders. Thank you, Freddie. Two passes already. Two

very equal boats. Both boats protesting on the last dial down. My

guess is they will not be any flags. The umpire taking their sweet time

talking about this one. A protest has been launched and the Americans

have picked up the penalty. Second of the race. How costly it might

that be? This is where it happened. Dial down. They determined that

Emirates Team New Zealand, had to get out of the way. These guys

didn't think they did anything wrong. They have to drop back

another two boats. The outfit in the bottom left of

your screen give you a clue of where they are on the course currently.

This is the replay. Oracle Team USA... What happens is Emirates Team

New Zealand gets to go into the wind so essentially right to cross that

line, that football line that imaginary line, they had another 10

degrees to bear off and they didn't bear off that 10 degrees. The umpire

has probably said New Zealand could have gone further but they couldn't

have because Oracle was in the way. That's a touch and go one. We will

get to Richard Slater at some point in the broadcast and he can explain.

On board with the American boat. One last tack into the gate. The New

Zealanders are beginning to stretch out in front. The second penalty the

Americans picked up really cost them in the last part of this leg. Very

hard to burn a penalty without burning too big a penalty. If you

come off your foils when you are trying to burn a penalty, it can be

catastrophic. That 100, 150 metres, one mistake and that gets evened up

in no time. Oracle will have to tack one more time for this mark, I

think. New Zealand did a very nice job. Oracle had the tack because of

the boundary most likely and they will probably have to tack one more

time. This is a costly manoeuvre. There they go, one more manoeuvre

and we have seen repeatedly through the month bracing out on the Great

Sound, sometimes, that is all it takes. Sometimes, there is just the

difference between the two boats. Just elongates the course a little

bit. The further distance and New Zealanders lead, a pretty healthy

one. Going back out on the water to Freddie. Give us an idea of the wind

shifts, they always get caught up on the boat speed and manoeuvring but

give us a little weather profile out there on the water. I would say it

is not too shifty. The thing that stands out to me is how Apache it

is. Never above ten knots but quite big holes on the racecourse. Not

only did Oracle get a penalty but they just served slightly less

pressure than the New Zealanders coming in so they took the two boat

length lost with a penalty but were just a little bit softer with

pressure. There are opportunities for the tacticians and four Tom

Slingsby to close this gate right down.

Jimmy Spithill spinning those handles on the wheel. You wonder if

that wrist injury is making any effect on how he controls the dagger

ports. Perhaps as expected, he batted away the question when asked

pre-race, didn't want to dwell on that, it wasn't going to make a

difference to him, he felt. That is the image she has to project.

Perception is often more important than reality. His arms could be

hanging out of their sockets and he would know the difference! This is

the Super Bowl, this is it. -- and he wouldn't know the difference.

Average the MG, very interesting. That takes into account the New

Zealanders had to slow down a little bit, so it is probably a little bit

deceiving. Most of this lead they lost, they are having at the bottom

of the screen to do radical horse change. To try to get the speed up

again. Those gybes devastating when they drop back down into the water,

it is so hard. Back to Freddie Carr. Are you surprised to see these guys

all sailing with the pro-couple-mac jibs or the medium to heavy jibs? I

must say I'm a little bit surprised by that? Oracle will try to defend

and keep the New Zealanders behind and effectively, you have to try to

be fast on the reach. We are trying to get the drone driver to get it

between those palms. -- helms. A couple of people anxious about that,

I would imagine. If you are an Oracle fan right now, there is no

question they are quicker. You have to eliminate these tough manoeuvres.

They splashed down. A 200 metre lead can turn into a 400

metre lead in no time. He is full of fighting talk, Jimmy

Spithill. Let's not forget is, he led a comeback and he knows his

tactics. But he is getting himself into a pretty sizeable hole at this

point. For all the chat and confident talk, he knows these guys

have a fast boat and a very slick system. We are seeing Simon, the

Olympic cyclist from 2012, heads down.

The Kiwis forcing it at the moment and soon we will be heading for

another victory, five in a row, on the Great Sound in this America's

Cup match. They will be so well-placed as they bid to win back

this trophy. They were victorious in 95 and 2000 and they are desperate

to bring it back to Auckland, bring it back to the north and south

island. 4.5 million people there. It is interesting in this race in

particular, the Kiwi success has really been in more classic match

racing situation. Not necessarily the boat speed we have been seeing.

They won the dial down. What everyone thought would be the

weakness of the Kiwis in this race, have clearly been a strength. These

cycles have obviously commanded a lot of attention and we know this is

a very efficient system pushing the de hydraulic power around. There is

Glenn Ashby with his little gaming console. He is controlling all of

the wing and you rarely see the wing go in and out in a radical way. He

is controlling the twist in the camber much more reactively than the

other teams have been able to do. He doesn't have a winch. Never a winch.

He doesn't touch a rope. We discussed it before but also what

seems to be clear is they have this brilliant division of labour. So no

one man ever in charge of decision-making and

responsibilities. We will get into the power a little bit more and how

they are accumulating and using the hydraulic energy. The windage and

ability for the cyclists to use their hands to help you other parts

of the boat, help manoeuvre other parts of the boat, it is clearly a

huge by-product of the cyclists that gets far less attention. The

cyclists are obvious but what Blair Tuke is doing, right there with all

the buttons, he is controlling all the positioning in the foil. I think

with a joystick. He is looking at the camera saying, they got me! Just

look at the almost surgical way in which they manoeuvre and manipulate

the boat. The leak see them make an error in the America's Cup match as

a whole. -- we have barely seen them make an error. They have a huge

amount of work to do, America, New Zealand heading down for the final

time in the race. These guys look slick. Freddie, I think was the

longer tips on the Oracle boat, I think we see longer tips and selling

more of an angle, more of an aggressive angle, something similar

we have seen on the Kiwi boat throughout this whole event. You are

right. I think the medium tips, they look like they are medium tips with

an extension. As I mentioned earlier. They are effectively

counting the board out a little bit more. I heard you talking about the

wing setup New Zealand. We just followed them up wind and it is mind

blowing how dynamic the top two flags are. I have heard about it

talked a lot but have never been close enough and it is a constant

movement. Glenn Ashby, it is like a hummingbird wing humming in and out

and when that mode is locked in, it looks seriously impressive. Freddie

has a ringside seat today. I wish you had that a couple of weeks ago!

Doing a lot of learning right now! Thank you, Freddie.

You guys with your incredible accents and great phrases, I have

not heard hummingbird wing for a long time in reference to any sort

of a sailboat. That is why he is out the! -- Fer. -- that is why he is

out there. It is so straightforward, when you Peter Burling, nothing is

complicated. 26 years old, entirely unflustered, taking a wonderfully

uncomplicated approach to this whole campaign. Until he soaks all of his

friends on the high side! We keep repeating this and you have to do.

We are still at 100%, these guys first mark first, 100% they have won

the race. And look at exactly where they are in contrast to the

Americans. We have seen the big margins of victory and the Americans

down seven knots of boat speed, in all kinds of bother. Another bad

gybe on the USA boat. You can see the hole, we are looking over our

monitors onto the racecourse you can see the holes the racecourse.

Having a great day, the Kiwis. The all blacks victorious over the

British and Irish lions earlier this morning in Auckland in the first

Test match. And thousands of New Zealanders here enjoying yet another

success, another hammer blow delivered by the Kiwis. They have

powered into a 4-0 lead in the America's Cup match and they need

three race victories to the trophy. The dominance continues. Got to ask

yourself at this point, just what unearth can the USA do to hold the

momentum? This time around, this race was about the stakes. We have

heard Jimmy Spithill comeback in and say, we felt OK and all of us used

our eyeball test and said, wait a second. You guys this last week and

looked pretty slow to all of us. Today, I'm not so sure. I think they

come in and say, we were quick. We were quick on the first week and we

made a mistake. We caught them twice, we made a mistake. All of a

sudden, the wheels kind of fell off. I think they are way more in the

game than last weekend. We will try and get a view from Jimmy Spithill

shortly. To discover if he is feeling confident and positive in

the same manner but the margin of victory is a big one.

Is this a team reassessing western mark is this a team digesting the

margin of victory from the New Zealanders? They've got to go big in

the next one because this match is getting away from them. Talking

about, are you happy with the riders? They are probably stalling a

little bit at times, they can move that round a little bit. There is a

finite amount back and go between the two rudders and I believe they

will do some fine tuning to try to gain a little more speed going into

the next race. Across the finish line and plunging down, beyond two

minutes. From the Kiwis. That's the biggest margin so far for all their

extra boat speed if that is what they seem to have found.

Confirmation of the Kiwi victory, 2.04 quicker than Oracle Team USA,

they have won five from five and let's not forget the Americans

effectively put their opposition on -1 at the outset because they won

the qualifying stage. That's why the Kiwi lead is 4-0. Difficult start to

the day for Oracle Team USA but on a positive note there were much

quicker. Those five days in the shed have made a considerable difference

but they are not sailing well. And at 4-0 down Jimmy Spithill and his

team have a lot to think about. There may be no British interest in

the cup match itself after Ben Ainslie's team was knocked out in

the semifinals but there was reason to cheer earlier this week when

their academy team won the Youth America's Cup in dramatic style.

Going into the final date BAR made above six sailors aged between 18

and 24 sat on top of the eight strong leaderboard. Switzerland and

Team France just behind. But defending champions mounted an

impressive last-minute comeback taking two wins before the final

race. To take overall victory the New Zealanders needed to keep three

places between them and the British. And as BAR academy trailed the field

in the final race a Kiwi victory was on the cards. Aspect of their third

win in New Zealand believed they'd done enough. But in a bizarre twist

team Germany hit the final mark slowing others down in the process.

The British sailed around the outside to finish second, enough to

take the overall victory. Our second day was certainly not our

first date on the first day we were consistent and had good results. The

second day we did not manage that but we fought back. The thing to

take out of this is we must never give up until the finish line. It

came down to the hard work would put in before these two days, no one can

win a championship in just two days and it's the year-long work we have

put in but everyone behind-the-scenes also at the Land

Rover BAR base that really made the win for us. New Zealander Burling

lifted the youth cup a few years ago and now he's aiming for the Auld Mug

itself. Let's rejoin the race six. USA against New Zealand, Spithill

against Burling, in some trouble, looking to rescue the situation.

Hurling spun around, almost a traditional match race move, he was

almost getting bumped by Jimmy Spithill, they got slow. Desperately

trying to get the overlap underneath Emirates Team New Zealand, 35

seconds to go back to the line. This is Spithill's attempt to disrupt, to

attack, to get in the face of the Kiwis and cause trouble. New Zealand

got around the front of them, he was never able to get the overlap and he

has to go for a time and distance start. That was well done by

Burling, it looked marginal for a second and he did enough to keep his

speed and enough to keep the overlap from happening and now it is just

speed to mark one. Both boats across the line clean this time. The

Americans getting up nice and quick and they have stolen a march this

time on the New Zealanders. Could this be the time? Doing a better job

pulling the trigger, no doubt. He had more momentum going off the line

and I think they will be able to use their wing washed to push them back.

It is still close. Team New Zealand living in a really precarious spot

right now. Just below the wing wash. They are barely living in clear air,

sure enough Oracle gets over the top. So that is a turnaround, that

is a change from the complexion of things in Bermuda during the

America's Cup match so far. Oracle Team USA rounding Mark one heading

down lead -- wind in the lead. It will be fascinating to see if the

mindset changes from this Team New Zealand. They have not been behind

except for about a minute during the last race. What do we read into the

early gybe? The same as the last run in the last race, Oracle being a bit

unstable. They are going to have to get pace on quicker, otherwise Team

New Zealand will roll over the top, they were unstable coming out of

that gybe, you could hear it in his voice, that's what Jimmy Spithill is

fearful of in this new setup they have pulled out after five days in

the shed. But then they go, once they go they go. But can they avoid

that instability? So, the lead is minimal for the Americans right now.

They have retrieved the frontrunning position. Looking for a great race

right now, let's show these things off as they should be shown off, put

on a great race. By all accounts the start looks like New Zealand putting

the pressure on. The Americans sailing off into

Clearwater in front and the New Zealanders not interested in getting

tight up close and personal. The early gybe. They were in a tough

spot and they tacked away because they were in a bit of bad way and

wing wash from Oracle Team USA, it was strategic, they followed them in

and split across and whoever the tactician is, whether it is Blair

Tuke or Peter Burling on board the Kiwi boat, now they have some

decisions to make. Now the boats are split, who will sail under better

wind pressure? This is where the pressure of the

Kiwis is just unrelenting. They just keep it close. They just so rarely

make mistakes that it forces you into sailing a perfect race. We have

seen teams sail the perfect race against Emirates Team New Zealand,

like BAR, unbelievable race against Team New Zealand to win in the

semifinal round. Freddie Carr. It takes something special, that's for

sure. Just mailing it on the consistency front. You expect they

will feel a lot happier at the moment because this is a different

complexion, a different dynamic right now, just asking one or two

questions which have not been asked of yet. Looking for the Kiwis to

chase them down. Let's get another view from out of

the water from Freddie Carr, part of the British team in Bermuda. What is

catching your eye in the early exchanges? What is catching my eye

is a repeat from the first race, the Iraq look quicker from the standout

comment from the on-board communications in the first race was

the questions about the runners of Oracle -- rudders. By changing their

road as they could have gone faster through the water but it must be so

hard for Spithill every day going out sailing with effectively and you

feel to the boat and we seem to or three bad gybes from team Oracle

today but maybe that is him learning about the new Rudder setup. They

will have to sail the perfect race to keep New Zealand behind them, so

far so good for the Americans. So far so good, no doubt about it. I

think the question everybody has at home is, why didn't they do this

before? It's very clearly a faster setup. They have that two-week break

while everyone else was scrambling about in the challenger play-offs.

You would have thought, as you mentioned at the top of the

programme, the toy box would be open, so to describe it. This is

clearly a different boat, everyone in agreement, all of the tweaks they

did come everyone in agreement they did weigh more than any of us will

ever know but why didn't they do this before last weekend? I think in

all honesty you have to back your design philosophy, your designers,

and you get there as a group of designers but the sailing team have

a huge amount of input in that and they will have been working towards

last weekend for two years with strong beliefs in their foil

packages and it must have been a shock to them that they were such a

long step behind the Kiwis. They must have hit the panic button a

little bit but like I said they have made some changes and they are

faster through the water but I'm just a little concerned in the light

air gybes they are looking sticky, they are normally good at their

falling gybes in the light air but today they look a little sticky.

Interesting point that the notion of having confidence in what you

brought to the table initially, at what point do you call time on it

and go, that's not working, we need something different? Having that

five-day gap, if you are an Oracle Team USA fan or a team member it was

a beautiful thing and now as we are talking about this stuff this boat

does not ever go away. We are going to see this next cross and there

will be two close boats coming in to split lanes at the top mark.

The Americans with a slender advantage. The boats surrounding

this gate on opposite sides, possibilities of wind shifts or wind

pressure making more of a game of it on the next run. Clean manoeuvring

from Jimmy Spithill's crew going on one side and Team New Zealand going

in the other direction. We just saw a moment or two ago the wind shift

graphics on the top left of the screen which suggested there was a

slight switch to the right-hand side of the course.

Both of them have splashed down once, very good indicator for Team

USA because as we have talked about the whole time the higher speed

setup typically makes for more instability and when you see Oracle

Team USA 100% for most of the time that is a very good sign for them.

The lead is building here for the Americans. You just don't get the

impression that the Kiwis have had their final throw of the dice just

yet. You can hear them talking about the

recharge. We need to reiterate for those people who maybe new to the

sailing world, everything that happens on the bud, whether it is

dropping the daggerboards, the angle of the foils, trimming, it all needs

power to make it happen. That's what those grinders are doing. Hydraulic

pressure, hydraulic pressure, direct drive into the wing, a big wind path

on the horizon right now. Looking at the angle differences between the

boats, Team New Zealand down here, Oracle, big angle change going up

into it, that is a wind shift. They just don't go away, the Kiwis. The

split at the top gate did for them. Critical gybe now for Oracle. They

need one more gybe and into the gate.

Very smoothly done. They are way out towards the main line here. You

wonder if they have... They will have to manoeuvre one more time.

They will have to do that tough racecourse manoeuvre, that one last

gybe, but they are diving down trying to get around this gate but

I'm not sure if Oracle has over stood this mark. Goodness gracious.

That's bold from New Zealand, really bold. Is it going to pay off at the

bottom gate? Vic Turton, they turn in front and they turn well. -- they

turn in. The Americans are chasing them again and we have a proper race

on. Peter Burling, the America's Cup rookie. The details guy, as so many

like to describe him. High school, very intuitive, and Jimmy Spithill,

the youngest skipper to win the cup in 2010, huge amounts of experience.

So where is your money now? I'm pretty stunned at the last turn of

events, the Kiwis did such a good job staying in the dark water and

the wind strength going down that run, literally sailed on by. Trying

to go back and understand whether they over stood that Mark. When you

talk about over standing. Sailing a longer distance. They are sailing a

longer distance in this race, that is over standing, sailing too far.

The average speeds are almost identical but when you sail a longer

difference euro BMG gets slower so the longer distance made a big

difference there. The MG, the vote De Man Booker's velocity relative to

the direction of their destination. -- riverboat's velocity. -- the MG.

Sniffing another victory. May be smelling a bit of blood. Although

you'd be forgiven for thinking that Peter Burling is simply out for an

afternoon drive in his truck. He was talking about his mode, driving past

De Matt Fast, this is always a big decision for a tactician. In the

Mono whole days you would have seen New Zealand tagged with Oracle every

time but they are thinking about the geometry, where is the pressure?

Where is the dark water? How can we possibly do fewer manoeuvres

compared to the other guy? They are taking a bit of a risk by splitting

off and not tacking directly with team Oracle USA as they tacked away.

The heart is racing a little bit for the Kiwi skipper even though he is

not showing it. That is as high a heart rate as we have seen on young

Peter Burling. I would say so. He is human! There is a pulse! We can

confirm. He is obviously just having a little think about what might

unfold over the course of the next few minutes out here on the Great

Sound. A 5-0 victory would put them in the box seat, two wins away.

That's right, they are winning the geometry battle, by allowing Oracle

Team USA to tack away, split away, again they took a risk and came back

together and clearly made a nice little gain. There is just gets on

board that boat. He is letting the others get down and dirty, they are

the guys digging in physically. From a match racing standpoint, this

split, Oracle needs a split, just sailing along next to Emirates Team

New Zealand will do them no good, they need the other side of the

racecourse, maybe a little of the dark water on the left-hand side of

the racecourse that they are looking at. They need something, desperately

they need 117 metres right now. A little dark water in the upper

left-hand side of the racecourse, that is what they need, they need a

wind shift, they need the breeze to possibly go in their favour. It does

not look super windy on the right side of the racecourse where the

Kiwis is right now. They wanted to go a little bit wider

so they could hit the gate first time. Big game happening with team

Emirates New Zealand. Look at the dial down, they are really deep.

Nothing in it. They dialled way down, they dialled low, this will be

interesting, whether they went too far on their dial down is the big

question. It is in Richard Slater's hands right now. No penalty. The

boats come back together again, Oracle on starboard, if they get

into the left-hand cycle on the left mark they will have right away to

get around it. Here we go again. We have a real racing. This is as tight

as it gets right now as they head towards gate five. Is Oracle

dialling down? That's what they are saying, can we push or not? And if

he dips will he be able to make the mark in the upper corner? Will he be

able to make the mark after the dip? Just the closest of passes. The

Kiwis just about able to squeeze in. Just gets around the mark, barely,

gain on, even race. Slight advantage to Oracle right now, they were going

quicker around that Mark. -- game on. The angle on that Mark for the

Kiwis means their boat has dropped away to 17 knots where the Americans

sustained at around 23 or 24. The Kiwis are still slow, 24, 25 MP

Americans away at 30. Last leg. 150 metres in it. It means there is

every chance for the Kiwis to claw it back. They will not be happy to

see the bow touching the water. They want to be up, with less drag.

It was that dark water owned Dominic in the upper left-hand corner that

got Oracle back in the game and the manoeuvres have been fantastic this

race. We wanted a sailboat race and we've got a sailboat race.

This is tough. If you ever wanted to drive one of these things that is

what you're dealing with. This manoeuvre, the double gybe here and

then they are desperate for hydraulic power, you heard him say,"

hit it." The weight is forward today. There is no bike system. It

is all about hydraulic pressure, give it to the big boys in the front

of the boat pulling off those last two gybes, really well done. There

are the grinders. There is just never any time for them to settle,

to relax, they have to go fullbore pretty much for the entirety of the

race. Is it about a payoff with the first American victory in the

America's Cup match? Have they got enough in the tank to see of the

Kiwis? Dead straight ahead, the finish line

in the front of our screen. I tell you what, Oracle stays in front, you

can give this team a big congratulations for just about a

shellacking last week, to throw everything at this over the last

five days and come up with a boat that is going this much faster, I

myself, as well as just about everyone else in the sailing world,

was starting to write them off. And, man, was I wrong. We want your

opinions. We want your thoughts. We don't want you on the fence. It is

looking as if the Americans have done enough here. A performance of

real character and resolve and resilience. They are going to hold

off the Kiwi challenge. The New Zealanders have been gaining but it

won't be enough and it will be America's race and the USA are back

in business, back in the hunt, and in the nick of time, a vital win,

which really breathes life into their ailing campaign. There is

hope, there is hope in the USA camp. The margin of victory is a small one

but it matters not. There we go. Will team effort command leadership

is always a massive part of that. You cannot give enough credit to the

entire Oracle Team USA squad. Top to bottom. For doing what they have

clearly done over the last five days. Like I said before, I think

all of us thought, how do you pull that off? There was quite a

disparity last weekend. I am really impressed.

It has been terrific to see the Americans coming back into the

picture here today, another fascinating day on the water. The

results: one win each, for the Kiwis and for the Americans, the New

Zealanders now standing with a 4-1 lead. New Zealand started on -1

point you to the American success in the qualifiers. The first 27 race

wins. What an incredible race from the

Americans, and certainly those five days of work by the designers and

the sailors have paid off. One man watching it all very closely is Sir

Ben Ainslie and we have caught up with him. What have you made from

today and how impressed were you with Oracle? Like you said, Oracle

have gone back to the drawing board and made significant changes to the

setup of the boat and we have seen in these lighter conditions they can

match Team New Zealand in the upward legs and that's the first time

throughout this competition we have seen any team be able to match them.

It is credit to Oracle, their designers, sailors, the shore crew

working through the night to get the boat back out on the water. It

certainly made for some exciting racing out there, fascinating to

watch. You won the cup sitting next to Jimmy Spithill four years ago.

Talk to me about him and how he will feel here.

Oracle have been in this game for a long time and Jimmy in particular,

and they are very experienced and have been in this situation before.

I think they will take a lot of positives from today, getting that

performance going, getting the speed going. They had a few wobbly moments

with the boat handling, which is the nature of the changes they have made

to the boat, so there is always a trade-off there, nothing comes for

free in this game. If they can execute and get the stats and get

the downwind gybes working we have seen they can win races now and take

it to the Kiwis. It is going to be a fascinating day tomorrow in similar

conditions. Then, you've talked often of this game at being one of

evolution. How much more can we see? And from your own perspective and

your British campaign what can you learn from here? There is always a

lot of learning in this competition. This is a classic America's Cup

duel, the teams are still developing through and we have seen Oracle make

the biggest jumps in the last five days. As a team you need to set

yourself up to be able to adapt to the situation and that is what both

teams have done well through this particular cup event. And for us

would continue on with Land Rover BAR and we will be in a much

stronger place having an existing team running forwards competitively

in the start-up team we were this time around. It has been exciting to

adapt to the situation and get the priorities straight. Have we seen

the start of the Oracle fightback? Oracle are not resting on their

laurels and they are back out for another training session. I caught

up with Jimmy Spittal and Peter Burling before they did. We were

right beside the base before you came back. How much was it a relief

for you and everyone involved in Oracle? Clearly for everyone in

Bermuda, everyone is cheering for us, it's great to see the support

and the lift for the guys and it was an important race to win. Give us a

feel of how much effort has gone into the last five days. It's been

around the clock, it really has been 24 hours, the sailors have been

pushed, long days out on the water, the shore engineering team have been

there on 24-hour shifts, doing 12 hour cycles. When we saw the other

guys not sailing and taking days off, we were like, here we go, this

is an opportunity. Pete mentioned they were staying ashore so the

shore team could work on the boat but our guys were working on the

boat when we got in through midnight. When the sailors see that

it is motivating for the guys when they jump on board. Some great

racing. It felt like it was a really good battle. We were not the happy

with how we sailed today, we made a lot of mistakes but at the same time

these guys made a lot of mistakes as well. We're not surprised at all

that we have a good battle on our hands and that is what we have

prepared for. We are under no illusions that we have a fair bit of

hard work over the next few days to keep improving and we are on a steep

part of learning curve and we have a lot to work on. We let the last race

slip and we had a good opportunity to win. We have plenty to work on

from today, we didn't sail overly well but we will be back tomorrow.

From our race points of view and judgment, but when you make a

mistake, what are you going to do? The comeback for the boys to come

back and nail the second start and get the whole package working

properly, lost the lead and came back again, it shows the boat is

going well and is a good sign of strength for the guys.

Clearly a massive relief for Jimmy Spithill and his team. The hard work

certainly looks like it has put them back in the game and for Peter

Burling, you just wonder if that defeat may have rattled the Kiwi

camp. More drama to come in Bermuda. Join us on BBC Two at 1pm tomorrow.

Great to see a bitter fight of these boys. It's only just beginning,

mate.