:00:32. > :00:38.Bermuda's great sown has lived up to its billing. Great racing for the
:00:39. > :00:44.fastest boats in America's Cup history, but now just two teams can
:00:45. > :00:49.win the 35th edition of sport's oldest international trophy. Go! Go!
:00:50. > :00:52.We saw those guys take days off during the week. We made a
:00:53. > :00:57.commitment inside the team that we would use every single one of them.
:00:58. > :01:03.We wanted to make the boat faster. It is funny it hear people say we
:01:04. > :01:06.took days off last week. It was a great opportunity for our crew to
:01:07. > :01:09.get on top of a job list. The important point is the boat is
:01:10. > :01:15.faster. That's a good position to be in. We know there is more on the
:01:16. > :01:21.table, but it's working. The boat is getting bigger. Once the guys can
:01:22. > :01:24.see it is getting faster, then you can start building momentum. If it
:01:25. > :01:36.goes to Monday it doesn't really matter for us. Young, old, where
:01:37. > :01:42.ever. It is great to see a bit of fight. It is only just beginning,
:01:43. > :01:52.mate. It looks like we may have a fight on our hands. The Kiwis looked
:01:53. > :01:58.imperious, but the Americans found a chink in their armour on Race Day 3
:01:59. > :02:04.of the America's Cup match. So race number five is underway. This is the
:02:05. > :02:08.Super Bowl. This is it. Jimmy Spithill's Americans are across the
:02:09. > :02:13.line too early. The New Zealanders will look to make hay in the
:02:14. > :02:20.meantime. Screaming across the water. 13 plus knots. Dial down. And
:02:21. > :02:29.it is Team New Zealand has to dip behind. The Kiwis go about their
:02:30. > :02:38.business in their usual crisp, slick fashion. And the Americans have
:02:39. > :02:43.picked up the penalty. . The New Zealanders are beginning to stretch
:02:44. > :02:54.out in front. So the Kiwis bossing it at the moment. The USA now have a
:02:55. > :02:59.huge amount of work to do. It is so straightforward seemingly when
:03:00. > :03:04.you're Peter Burling. Another hammer blow delivered by the Kiwis. Race
:03:05. > :03:09.number six then of the America's Cup match. The defenders in some trouble
:03:10. > :03:15.now. Both boats across the line. Clean this time. The Americans
:03:16. > :03:21.getting up nice and quick and they have stolen a march this time on the
:03:22. > :03:30.New Zealanders. They will feel a lot happier at the moment. The Americans
:03:31. > :03:35.with a slender advantage. Goodness gracious! New Zealand turn and they
:03:36. > :03:39.turn in front and now the Americans are the ones chasing again. We have
:03:40. > :03:43.a proper race on. Look at that dial down. They're really deep. Well,
:03:44. > :03:48.this is as tight as it gets right now. We wanted a sail boat race. We
:03:49. > :03:53.got a sail boat race. The Americans are speeding away. There is hope in
:03:54. > :03:56.the USA camp. It will be America's race and the USA are back in
:03:57. > :04:01.business! Here we go. Here we go. Five race
:04:02. > :04:05.wins only translates to four points for New Zealand as the Americans
:04:06. > :04:09.took a bonus point into the match thanks to winning the first round of
:04:10. > :04:16.qualifiers. So, the scoreboard shows a three race lead for Peter Burling
:04:17. > :04:21.and crew. We didn't feel that happy with how we sailed. We tidied up a
:04:22. > :04:24.lot of those things and the boat was feeling great. We have approached
:04:25. > :04:27.this the same as we have approached every time. We are under no
:04:28. > :04:31.illusions and we have got a battle on our hands and we will give it
:04:32. > :04:35.everything we've got. The forecast looks bang on and we have got a
:04:36. > :04:41.great set-up for the day and it will be hard on the handles for the boys,
:04:42. > :04:44.but I think they're up for it. Four years ago Oracle trailed before the
:04:45. > :04:48.great sporting comeback saw them retain the Cup. The situation is
:04:49. > :04:54.nothing new to Jimmy Spithill and his team. Today, the conditions are
:04:55. > :04:59.alike and Oracle must deliver. Let's join the commentary team.
:05:00. > :05:05.Another beautiful day on the Great Sound. Here is our first look at the
:05:06. > :05:09.course. Well, welcome to the Great Sound in Bermuda, the perfect
:05:10. > :05:15.racetrack for the 35th America's Cup. It includes a two minute start
:05:16. > :05:23.sequence followed by the critical reach to mark one. There is a 10
:05:24. > :05:27.knots south-westerly breeze followed to the sprint finish off America's
:05:28. > :05:34.Cup village. It is such an important battleground. It can really set the
:05:35. > :05:41.agenda for the rest of the race. A flurry of activity on board the Kiwi
:05:42. > :05:47.boats. So race number seven of the
:05:48. > :05:53.America's Cup match is underway. What's your reading of the prestart
:05:54. > :05:58.so far? Well on top. Now it's time and distance. This is when that
:05:59. > :06:06.critical moment of will there be feisty jockeying going on? Oracle
:06:07. > :06:12.very quickly going after what's called the quarter. Very quickly
:06:13. > :06:19.peel off out of it. This is a hug game between the two skippers. There
:06:20. > :06:24.can't be any help. Skippers intuition and then going after that
:06:25. > :06:30.hooking position. They can't get there. Peter Burling fending it off
:06:31. > :06:35.very well so far. Oracle is an interesting spot. Oracle shoot in
:06:36. > :06:41.and get over the top. Here we go. Time and distance. Ten seconds to
:06:42. > :06:44.the stop. Looking like the timings are pretty
:06:45. > :06:50.good from both the crews at the moment. The Americans are having to
:06:51. > :06:55.take a another little twist and the Kiwis are away. That was probably
:06:56. > :06:59.not necessary or on the cards for Oracle Team USA from a dominant
:07:00. > :07:02.position, all of a sudden that last little, remember Jimmy Spithill told
:07:03. > :07:06.us the other day he was having trouble with his software on the
:07:07. > :07:10.prestart software. That could have been another situation where the
:07:11. > :07:14.software may have affected him a little bit. No penalties this time.
:07:15. > :07:17.He will be happy about that, Jimmy Spithill. Two penalties in the six
:07:18. > :07:25.previous races at the start line, but it is the New Zealanders who are
:07:26. > :07:35.away fastest. 33 knots. Flying up and first to the first mark. And he
:07:36. > :07:42.sees that again, Jimmy, he will kick himself. Look at the detail of
:07:43. > :07:46.mistakes, of tiny mistakes. Being a second late for the start. All of a
:07:47. > :07:50.sudden it's the difference between winning and losing at that first
:07:51. > :07:56.mark and remember my favourite statistic... Is that the one that
:07:57. > :08:01.the drone can hold a small Labrador underneath it? No. The first to the
:08:02. > :08:09.first mark. That's what we are talking about. 100% the Kiwis have
:08:10. > :08:21.gone on to win a race where they have been the first off the mark. A
:08:22. > :08:26.lot of talk about the weight that's been taken off the American boat. It
:08:27. > :08:32.is much, much lighter than it was. Those last five days that they had
:08:33. > :08:37.to tweak and adapt, they have changed things a good deal. It is a
:08:38. > :08:43.lot lighter, but it is also much tougher to sail and rather less
:08:44. > :08:47.stable than it was and we heard him talking, didn't we, Jimmy Spithill,
:08:48. > :08:52.about the fact that it requires more power and that means more work for
:08:53. > :08:57.the grinders. Christian, 100 kilos possibly coming off this boat. Give
:08:58. > :09:02.people an idea of first of all of maybe how hard that it is to get it
:09:03. > :09:08.off the boat and when are they going to see that difference It's going to
:09:09. > :09:16.show up in ten knots and less than that. Every kilo is important. If
:09:17. > :09:21.you move 100 kilos I think around the two lap racecourse you're
:09:22. > :09:29.probably looking at 500 or 600 meter gain in pure boat speed in under 10
:09:30. > :09:33.knots. Why wouldn't they have done that early on? Why wouldn't they
:09:34. > :09:38.have done this before this event? It is one of those things that you
:09:39. > :09:43.prioritise differently and as you go on, you learn and you figure out,
:09:44. > :09:54.OK, this is the best area where we can gain performance so you have got
:09:55. > :09:59.to make some sacrifice. I suppose part of it is the need to
:10:00. > :10:02.trust in the systems that you arrive with to a certain degree, but there
:10:03. > :10:06.does become that tipping point where you need to go right, "Changes have
:10:07. > :10:12.to be made because it's not working the way we'd like." Credit where
:10:13. > :10:21.credit is due to the Oracle Team as we said in the pregame for being
:10:22. > :10:25.open enough to kind of throw some probably some key convictions to
:10:26. > :10:30.their programme out the window in that five day period and build on a
:10:31. > :10:34.whole new set of what you think your speed values are. It is not easy to
:10:35. > :10:38.do and it's impressive and look, it is so clearly paying off from the
:10:39. > :10:45.first weekend we saw these two guys race against each other. The Kiwis
:10:46. > :10:52.had a massive advantage in the early races, but now we see the pair of
:10:53. > :10:56.boats tapping simultaneously. Just explain how easy or difficult it is
:10:57. > :11:00.now for Burling to dictate the pace of this race to dictates what
:11:01. > :11:04.happens to Jimmy Spithill and the American boat? How much can he
:11:05. > :11:09.really influence what's happening on that boat? There is no doubt that
:11:10. > :11:13.there is plenty of talk about the Kiwis actually having a split at the
:11:14. > :11:19.end of the second race yesterday which you can make a reasonable case
:11:20. > :11:26.it cost them the race. Every match racer in the world sat in front of
:11:27. > :11:31.their TV and said, "Why aren't they attacking?" All of a sudden the
:11:32. > :11:35.scoop kiwis are keeping a closer eye on Oracle. They will herd them
:11:36. > :11:37.around. They will literally herd them and keep them in the same
:11:38. > :12:03.water. So Peter Burling taking the Kiwis
:12:04. > :12:06.out before preparing to attack. There is not a huge amount of
:12:07. > :12:10.difference between the pair of them. This is a new stat, the couple
:12:11. > :12:13.lation of pressure. This is about the power that's being generated by
:12:14. > :12:17.the grinders and there are two different systems, of course, the
:12:18. > :12:25.regular grinders to the left of your screen on board Oracle Team USA and
:12:26. > :12:29.the Kiwis. We will elaborate on that in a moment or two. This is a core
:12:30. > :12:32.statistic that many people are hoping we can show because it is an
:12:33. > :12:36.extreme difference between the grinding and the pedalling. Why are
:12:37. > :12:45.they doing it full-time? Why is this hydraulic power necessary? Peter
:12:46. > :12:51.Burling allowed for the split to happen there. He actually didn't, as
:12:52. > :12:56.we were talking about, herding Oracle, he didn't herd Oracle, he
:12:57. > :13:02.went for the wind shift and went for 50 meters ahead to 280. So it is one
:13:03. > :13:06.thing to dictate how a sailing style of a Peter Burling as a coach for
:13:07. > :13:10.example, dictate a sailing style is another thing, don't herd your
:13:11. > :13:13.jockey. You don't reign them in, but this kid has got to where he has
:13:14. > :13:18.gotten. So he made a mistake yesterday. So he made maybe one
:13:19. > :13:22.mistake yesterday. Allow it to happen and just go and let him do
:13:23. > :13:27.his things again. So back to the numbers. 350 is max. That's 100% of
:13:28. > :13:33.power stored if you like, isn't it? Correct. So on the left, on both
:13:34. > :13:38.boats the port and starboard, that's literally the acall lator pressure
:13:39. > :13:44.for the up and down of the foils. That's only used to lift and lower
:13:45. > :13:51.the dagger boards. We believe Oracle actually never accumulates more
:13:52. > :13:54.pressure. It actually decease the pressure. On the other side, that's
:13:55. > :13:59.how they move all the functions around. That's what the cyclists,
:14:00. > :14:03.that's what the grinders, they're constantly feeding pressure into
:14:04. > :14:08.moving the things around. That means in and out, the wind twist, the wind
:14:09. > :14:12.Camber, everything. It is slightly complicated, but they are all
:14:13. > :14:21.achieving the game goal at the end and that's hydraulic pressure. The
:14:22. > :14:25.Kiwis get low. They are at 185. There is the cyclists. Just kind of
:14:26. > :14:32.building it back up again. No problem. They go fast. They build
:14:33. > :14:36.that pressure super fast. I think that's the key thing, isn't it? Just
:14:37. > :14:41.watch that move into the green, and those numbers to the bottom right of
:14:42. > :14:45.your screen move up, it is moving disproportionately quickly to the
:14:46. > :14:50.American boat. Yeah. That, of course is allowing them a
:14:51. > :14:53.little bit more tactical freedom. They can choose when they manoeuvre,
:14:54. > :14:59.how they can manoeuvre, how aggressive they can be. So into the
:15:00. > :15:14.gate, the Kiwis seemingly in control of operations at the moment. We have
:15:15. > :15:20.seen many, many times out here on the Great Sound one error can cost
:15:21. > :15:25.you 150, 200 meters in some cases. The Kiwis just stretched out. As
:15:26. > :15:29.we're talking about hydraulic pressures we failed really to talk
:15:30. > :15:34.about how much they just legged it out on that one. That was
:15:35. > :15:39.impressive. Both teams have been out practising in between the events and
:15:40. > :15:44.in between the racing. Still searching desperately for that last
:15:45. > :15:53.little bit. And big angle differences. It's still puffy out
:15:54. > :15:57.here on the water. So the USA sailing a fair distance longer than
:15:58. > :16:01.the Kiwis. Average boat speed, when you look at the average boat speed,
:16:02. > :16:03.it's very similar. There is only one thing that can be making the
:16:04. > :16:07.difference and that's the distance. That could be a wind shift. Very
:16:08. > :16:11.often that's a wind shift. They missed a wind shift and the other
:16:12. > :16:18.guys didn't. Peter Burling did that little split and we were saying,
:16:19. > :16:26."Why isn't the kid covereded?" There is a reason he's out there!
:16:27. > :16:49.On board the American boat. It's all business at the moment.
:16:50. > :16:55.Jimmy Spithill assessing the situation. Just looking round. He's
:16:56. > :16:58.looking for those wind shifts. He's looking for that extra pressure in
:16:59. > :17:03.different parts of the course that might help them along. They found a
:17:04. > :17:07.good one yesterday in Race 6. The downwind leg really started to
:17:08. > :17:18.squeeze the Kiwis. They need something similar here.
:17:19. > :17:33.Yeah, this is almost desperation time when you get out to the 400,
:17:34. > :17:37.500 meters to the boat behind. Just a degree of instability in that one.
:17:38. > :17:42.We see a small wind shift to the left-hand side of the course. Yes,
:17:43. > :17:45.left-hand shift. That will be OK coming in on that side of the
:17:46. > :17:50.racecourse right now, but it's also about pressure. Shift is good,
:17:51. > :17:55.pressure is king and they don't look very, they're only going 21, 22
:17:56. > :18:01.knots. They don't look like they are as powered up as the Kiwis are.
:18:02. > :18:04.Speed doesn't come for free. They may have gained more boat speed, but
:18:05. > :18:12.they're having to work very, very hard to build the pressure to allow
:18:13. > :18:20.them to sail. They want the race they want to sail. So really from
:18:21. > :18:24.here, and there is a long way to go, but it is New Zealand's to lose.
:18:25. > :18:26.Peter Burling is this complete control. There we are on his
:18:27. > :18:41.shoulder. The Americans are going to split the
:18:42. > :18:48.course. They're going to try, but the Kiwis are on to it. They play
:18:49. > :18:51.tack off early from the boundary and try to get themselves in the same
:18:52. > :19:08.part of the racecourse as Oracle is in.
:19:09. > :19:14.We will go back to the key moment in this race. Listen, this is one that
:19:15. > :19:20.Jimmy wants back. Both boats essentially going for the line. Team
:19:21. > :19:25.New Zealand just go for it. That last little zig, that last little
:19:26. > :19:30.loop right there, that's what cost it. That was the difference between
:19:31. > :19:34.winning and losing that start. For sure something that Jimmy Spithill
:19:35. > :19:38.would like back at this stage. It is amazing the dynamic as well, isn't
:19:39. > :19:41.it? Before this match got underway everybody figured Jimmy Spithill was
:19:42. > :19:44.going to eat Peter Burling for breakfast at the start line and it
:19:45. > :19:56.just has not happened that way at all. The table have been turned
:19:57. > :20:01.emphatically. So the boys working hard. The max heart rate, the
:20:02. > :20:06.numbers bottom right-hand side of each of those boxes, the maximum
:20:07. > :20:16.heart rate should be about 220 take away your age. In your case, it
:20:17. > :20:23.would be somewhere around 180. 42! He's a really nice guy!
:20:24. > :20:36.Everybody is made differently. That's the important thing. Cling on
:20:37. > :20:41.to that. Simon is clearly working hard than everybody else. The first
:20:42. > :20:44.time he sailed a sail boat was the first day that the Kiwis were in the
:20:45. > :20:47.trials for the America's Cup. A slightly different path than the
:20:48. > :20:55.rest of us in getting to the pinnacle of the sport. At the bottom
:20:56. > :21:02.left of your scene giving you an idea of where we are on the course
:21:03. > :21:07.itself. They have done a good job here, the Americans, of cutting the
:21:08. > :21:15.deficit. Once up around the 250 mark and back to 180 or so. But this race
:21:16. > :21:37.is still in Peter Burling's hands. Burling is attacking and presumably
:21:38. > :21:43.from that position on the course look to go lay the gate to get in.
:21:44. > :21:48.Quite possibly. You see on the top of the screen there, you see the
:21:49. > :21:57.marks on the top of the screen, way up top and I'm not sure if they're
:21:58. > :22:02.not going to have to do one more. By staying in the same water as your
:22:03. > :22:07.competitor, they may have gone early. They will herd the cats and
:22:08. > :22:10.keep them in control and make sure something crazy like the end of the
:22:11. > :22:17.second race yesterday, like that doesn't happen again. Oracle has
:22:18. > :22:28.chewed up a little bit of this lead. There is no doubt about it. So one
:22:29. > :22:34.more manoeuvre from the Kiwis will see them through the gate. They will
:22:35. > :22:39.be down one more leg before the blast for the finish. Oracle decided
:22:40. > :22:43.to throw in an extra manoeuvre in order to gain a split of the top
:22:44. > :22:48.mark. They will attack at least one more time. One more time than the
:22:49. > :22:55.Kiwis, but they will have a split at the top mark. Again, once you round
:22:56. > :23:01.this mark, the acceleration, a 200 meter lead turns into 400 meter, at
:23:02. > :23:05.least a 350 by the time they get in of the Christian, breeze wise, is
:23:06. > :23:09.there anything going on? Puffs? Shifts? Anything radical that's
:23:10. > :23:14.going to get Oracle back in the game because they need something? They
:23:15. > :23:18.need something. I don't see anything radical. Team New Zealand listened
:23:19. > :23:23.to you yesterday and protected that side of the course and I think they
:23:24. > :23:28.have done so wisely. Oracle made some nice gains. It looked like Team
:23:29. > :23:33.New Zealand missed their rudder swap and that cost them quite a bit. It
:23:34. > :23:38.will be interesting to see what happens here, but really right now,
:23:39. > :23:43.it is Team New Zealand's to lose. Looking like the Americans at that
:23:44. > :23:47.point require an error and a fairly sizeable one from the New
:23:48. > :24:02.Zealanders. Jimmy Spithill will be looking to bring all his experience
:24:03. > :24:12.to bear. The 37-year-old Aussie. A little bit of - OK, so as the person
:24:13. > :24:18.who, if you look at it, it is slower average speed for Emirates Team New
:24:19. > :24:22.Zealand. That's actually remarkably close with no real rhyme or reason.
:24:23. > :24:28.So numbers do lie sometimes. There is no real rhyme or reason why there
:24:29. > :24:37.is 400 meter lead going on right now. Down to 200. Coming on. I doubt
:24:38. > :24:41.Jimmy Spithill will be happy about the speed factor. There doesn't seem
:24:42. > :24:47.to be a problem on that front any longer, but it is the cost of that
:24:48. > :24:53.place. No more mistakes the they can't make those mistakes like that
:24:54. > :25:02.prestart mistake. Pulling the trigger at the gun. They're coming
:25:03. > :25:09.on. Team New Zealand down to 19 knots. They look stable, but they
:25:10. > :25:13.were quite slow for some reason. Look at this lead getting chewed up
:25:14. > :25:19.right now. One more gybing in and this is that one mistake zone that
:25:20. > :25:23.we talked about right now. One bad gybe by he will rats Team New
:25:24. > :25:29.Zealand and this ball game is brand-new again. So it isn't over
:25:30. > :25:33.just yet. The Kiwis have to main their composure and this is when we
:25:34. > :25:40.see the competitors in the white heat of battle. Can they hold their
:25:41. > :25:50.nerve? Can Peter Burling hold on to this lead. He knows that Spithill
:25:51. > :25:56.will only need a tine crisis chink of light. The wing trimmer is
:25:57. > :26:01.driving the boat coming out of these gybes in order to allowing Peter
:26:02. > :26:06.Burling to keep the thing up on the foils wall while Peter Burling is
:26:07. > :26:10.sprinting across the boat. Buoy, a real close up on his leg, but
:26:11. > :26:14.unfortunately with a quick little reach to the finish, we haven't seen
:26:15. > :26:18.a lot of passes on this reach through the entire event. It could
:26:19. > :26:26.be too little, too late for Oracle Team USA.
:26:27. > :26:32.It's looking like it will be a step too far for Jimmy Spithill. He will
:26:33. > :26:35.be encouraged by the way he closed the gap particularly when you take
:26:36. > :26:40.it back to the start line and how costly that was. The Kiwis are
:26:41. > :26:47.zipping along pretty nicely. A little glance over his shoulder from
:26:48. > :26:51.Driving Miss Daisy! Don't forget they have been tidying
:26:52. > :26:55.up their boat as well. He likes a good tidy, Peter Burling. And they
:26:56. > :27:03.have been tweaking and adjusting here and there in amongst the
:27:04. > :27:07.Americans. And as a result, of a pretty clean race, New Zealand
:27:08. > :27:13.reassert their authority here in Bermuda. A tight margin, but they
:27:14. > :27:16.have moved into a 5-1 lead in the America's Cup match and they are two
:27:17. > :27:29.wins from the trophy. Ten seconds is the margin. 11...
:27:30. > :27:36.That is tight, by anybody's reckoning but it is still an
:27:37. > :27:48.American defeat. This is the standings with the lead extended by
:27:49. > :27:52.the Kiwis to 5-1. Shirley: What an impressive performance. The
:27:53. > :27:58.America's Cup almost within their grasp. In any America's Cup
:27:59. > :28:05.technology plays a part. Taking us through the technological nuances of
:28:06. > :28:09.both boats is one of the America's Cup's leading helmsman. If you
:28:10. > :28:17.looked at the two boats, New Zealand appear to have a faster package. The
:28:18. > :28:21.Oracle foil is a standard board that all the teams are using. The New
:28:22. > :28:26.Zealand board is different, it has a kink, which means they can take
:28:27. > :28:32.their light wind boards further up. You can change the tips, so New
:28:33. > :28:39.Zealand have a quiver of horizontals and the racing around the ten knots
:28:40. > :28:44.range is around the boards they have an New Zealand seem to have a
:28:45. > :28:50.smoother transition on their boards. The biggest difference between the
:28:51. > :28:55.wings is Oracle have the traditional approach, Kyle has to trim it with
:28:56. > :29:02.one hand and has buttons to do the full twist adjustment but New
:29:03. > :29:07.Zealand have everything hydraulic, so the wind sheet comes on and off
:29:08. > :29:11.with the push-button. He has the ability to play sheet, twisted
:29:12. > :29:16.camber at the touch of his fingers and with the hydraulic power
:29:17. > :29:23.produced by the bikes, it is like he has energy on tap. The differences
:29:24. > :29:28.the bikes versus hand pedestals. I think the control system and design
:29:29. > :29:35.of the foil shapes and ultimately how the crew is failing the boat
:29:36. > :29:38.will be the big thing. It is obvious your leg muscles are bigger than
:29:39. > :29:45.your arm muscles and when you want the hits of power in manoeuvres, we
:29:46. > :29:49.can throw it around. At never really run out of rhythm. The third biggest
:29:50. > :29:56.difference between the two is how the boats flying. Oracle have the
:29:57. > :30:01.same approach as other teams in that the helmsman flies the boat while
:30:02. > :30:07.driving at the Kiwis, they have almost like an autopilot. Blair
:30:08. > :30:13.Tuke, the fourth bicycle rider, is focused on this display we want to
:30:14. > :30:16.know what is on it. It looks like he is trying to keep one line on
:30:17. > :30:23.another line and if you can match the two together, the boat has this
:30:24. > :30:29.magic carpet auto control and so it has freed Peter up to be a tactician
:30:30. > :30:34.and driver, something that the rest of the helmsmen and Jimmy would not
:30:35. > :30:38.be able to do. Talk to anyone on the team and they will say there are a
:30:39. > :30:43.couple of things that are innovative but there are probably another 50
:30:44. > :30:46.people cannot see. We have an incredible tool and we are excited
:30:47. > :30:54.about being able to get out there and throw it around. Bermuda is
:30:55. > :30:57.Britain's oldest remaining overseas territory and there was a royal
:30:58. > :31:03.visitor to the sold-out race village. Her Royal Highness Princess
:31:04. > :31:08.Anne was a guest of the organisers. After watching racing, with the
:31:09. > :31:13.legendary cup skipper and chairman of the organising authority, she was
:31:14. > :31:18.welcomed as a guest of the Ben Ainslie racing base at the dockyard.
:31:19. > :31:21.Let's get back to the action. Ken and Alastair Eykyn in the commentary
:31:22. > :31:28.box. Commentary: It is hard to pick up
:31:29. > :31:46.the ships from the television. The New Zealanders, leading 5-1. Led
:31:47. > :31:53.by Peter Burling. More aggressive by both teams. They could not
:31:54. > :32:03.accelerate and then suddenly team New Zealand has Oracle in a bad
:32:04. > :32:12.spot. Oracle has to stay out of the way, Rob -- Oracle is in a deep
:32:13. > :32:24.hole. No penalties. They deemed that Oracle stayed out of the way. At
:32:25. > :32:34.this stage, this is almost a must win race for Oracle. Tearing away,
:32:35. > :32:41.the Kiwis. Boxed in Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA in the
:32:42. > :32:48.pre-start. Clearwater in front and behind. Peter Burling's team are
:32:49. > :32:53.flying. Never mind the start time. That does not matter. It is just
:32:54. > :33:00.about your opponent. Where can you pin him down and where can you leave
:33:01. > :33:06.him for dead? Oracle tried to get aggressive. Tacking around. And then
:33:07. > :33:07.could not accelerate. Team New Zealand in a radical turn,
:33:08. > :33:24.accelerating quicker. Again, cannot afford it at this
:33:25. > :33:31.stage. We want to make this an event, that is not the way to do it.
:33:32. > :33:36.A masterstroke from Peter Burling. 38 nots as they round Mark 1 and
:33:37. > :33:45.head downwind for the first time in its race with the Americans a long
:33:46. > :33:52.way back and in big trouble. 7-1 in starts, for Peter Burling and
:33:53. > :33:55.Emirates Team New Zealand in the America's Cup match. Not a statistic
:33:56. > :34:06.anybody predicted. Who would have thought that? I talk to smart
:34:07. > :34:13.people. Everybody thought it was a potential major weakness of Peter
:34:14. > :34:16.Burling. I would not say you guys had your way with Artemis in the
:34:17. > :34:26.semifinals but it was a strength of your programme. I was saying to some
:34:27. > :34:30.of the boys, we've lost one the races and we did a good job and
:34:31. > :34:38.right now Peter Burling is doing the same to Jimmy Spithill, which is a
:34:39. > :34:45.surprise to many of us. Not least the American helmsman
:34:46. > :34:54.himself. He will no doubt take personal responsibility. He will be
:34:55. > :35:01.quietly simmering inside. Time to make something happen. 175 metres
:35:02. > :35:07.behind right now. Certainly within passing, the pass zone we have
:35:08. > :35:17.talked about. Keep in mind it is not 5-1, it is really 6-1 in wins and
:35:18. > :35:22.losses. Six races to one, something has got to give, to turn around. You
:35:23. > :35:28.cannot bury your head in the sand as a say, this is going to change.
:35:29. > :35:33.Nothing is changing. The Americans are splitting the course at the
:35:34. > :35:39.bottom gate. There will be people who will have caught sight of the
:35:40. > :35:46.contest in San Francisco for years ago and wondering if there are
:35:47. > :35:53.familiar situations ongoing, whether this is a different scenario. The
:35:54. > :36:01.most fundamental scenario is that the Americans have had their time to
:36:02. > :36:02.go adapting and changing. This might be a decent wind shift for the
:36:03. > :36:27.Americans. Let's not count them out. A clean race from the Kiwis. It
:36:28. > :36:33.would put them within touching distance of the trophy. 160 metres
:36:34. > :36:39.between the two. The Americans gaining. They need a wind shift to
:36:40. > :36:44.help them. This is a replay of the pre-start. Oracle starts leaning
:36:45. > :36:50.back and decide to go slow, to see if they can track them. They are
:36:51. > :37:00.trying to trap them up above to this side of Oracle. Burling spins
:37:01. > :37:05.around. The next thing you know, Jimmy Spithill is going to be going
:37:06. > :37:11.head to win and complete control by Burling. I was surprised, but
:37:12. > :37:17.nothing should surprise us, how quick return was and how radically
:37:18. > :37:26.affected the acceleration of team New Zealand, who turned it around on
:37:27. > :37:31.top of Oracle. The teacher and a bustard. It was a masterstroke from
:37:32. > :37:49.Burling, but this gap is not a big one. It is all on, right now. Almost
:37:50. > :37:54.in unison, the two boats tacking. A little quick, Oracle, revving it up
:37:55. > :37:59.a bit going into the tack and came out more effective. A bit of the
:38:00. > :38:31.medicine of the Kiwis turned against them.
:38:32. > :38:40.SAILOR: Just got to get through this. It is really slippery.
:38:41. > :38:47.Stand-by. It is going to be ugly. We have got to go. Fascinating
:38:48. > :38:55.listening to the tactical discussion between Tom Slingsby... It is going
:38:56. > :38:59.to be ugly, but we have got to go, meaning we have got to do something
:39:00. > :39:06.here. Not a surprise because they have made gains. Thought it was
:39:07. > :39:17.going to be light on this side of the racecourse. Team New Zealand go
:39:18. > :39:29.with them right away. Using their code two jibs. The lead turning into
:39:30. > :39:39.250 in a heartbeat. The Kiwis yet again a long way out in front.
:39:40. > :39:46.Dictating the terms of the race. The Americans having to adapt their
:39:47. > :39:54.policies to change things up, to see what they can do to disrupt this
:39:55. > :39:59.Kiwi passage. The Americans very tight to the boundary. They may have
:40:00. > :40:04.gone into the boundary, they have. They have picked up a penalty as a
:40:05. > :40:17.result. Surely that is an unforced error. They have to burn off two
:40:18. > :40:22.boat lengths. They were 50 metres behind not too long ago and this
:40:23. > :40:28.will be in the hundreds. Could it be a software problem? About where the
:40:29. > :40:34.boundary was? Hell does it happen? They have a lot on their minds but
:40:35. > :40:40.that is a basic error at that stage. -- how does it happen? Trying to
:40:41. > :40:47.keep the boat going 30 knots while steering and adjusting the boards.
:40:48. > :40:51.You are right, they have a lot on their mind, clearly too much.
:40:52. > :40:58.Another one they would love to have back.
:40:59. > :41:06.Jimmy Spithill complained yesterday, thinking the Kiwis have been handed
:41:07. > :41:12.soft decisions by the umpire system but this one he has done all on his
:41:13. > :41:21.own. Was not even close. Three quarters of a boat lengths outside
:41:22. > :41:26.the boundary. They will need wind strength. 250 metres, which means
:41:27. > :41:37.when they turn the bottom mark, it will be 150 or so. Average speed is
:41:38. > :41:44.good. Even the Kiwis have done one more manoeuvre. The only statistic
:41:45. > :41:49.that matters is the one on your screen up there that says 300
:41:50. > :41:52.metres. The mistakes. You start 100 metres behind and go outside the
:41:53. > :42:16.boundary and get a penalty, not good.
:42:17. > :42:26.The mechanics. Back and forth. Fascinating to those of us whose
:42:27. > :42:31.sail for a living. It is a different world how the guys were trimming the
:42:32. > :42:36.foil. Getting little of the accolade, sitting in the middle of
:42:37. > :42:42.the boat. He has a box underneath, he has no winches, no ropes. The
:42:43. > :42:46.choreography is impressive. When the manoeuvres are made, everybody knows
:42:47. > :42:58.what is happening, where they are going. You can see the box in his
:42:59. > :43:03.hand. It is a different world. You asked earlier, what is different
:43:04. > :43:09.from San Francisco to now? I think anybody looking at this cycle will
:43:10. > :43:15.say the most innovative boat is winning right now. In San Francisco,
:43:16. > :43:19.the most innovative boat early in the event was not winning. Leapfrog
:43:20. > :43:27.is the boat that might have been more off the pace. This is not the
:43:28. > :43:35.case this time. What about the magnitude of what the Kiwis end up
:43:36. > :43:40.doing here? I do not want to speak out of turn but I heard it described
:43:41. > :43:44.as David and Goliath in terms of funding, as we see the Americans
:43:45. > :43:55.performing arguably their worst manoeuvre of the race so far. Down
:43:56. > :44:23.to tends only. Loss of speed catastrophic -- down to ten knots.
:44:24. > :44:43.What is your reading? They do not look comfortable. You talk about
:44:44. > :44:48.over pressing in sport, it feels over pressed. Desperation time. In
:44:49. > :45:15.this race, maybe not yet for the event.
:45:16. > :45:30.That gives you a bird's eye view of the crisp activities of Emirates
:45:31. > :45:31.Team New Zealand. The tack. It is effortlessly performed. Everybody is
:45:32. > :45:50.in sync. Again, with the hulls out of the
:45:51. > :46:06.water, zero verbal communication between the Kiwis.
:46:07. > :46:14.I think what we just heard might tell you the story of the cup. "We
:46:15. > :46:28.Are really happy just going fast now." Just go a little faster!
:46:29. > :47:01.We were talking about slaying the dragon. This is incredible. One
:47:02. > :47:07.thing that is interesting, there is no doubt as the Oracle boat made
:47:08. > :47:12.their foils more slippery, possibly thinner, they are doing a similar
:47:13. > :47:15.technique to team New Zealand, bearing off, gaining speed into the
:47:16. > :47:28.tack and whipping it through the tack. There is no doubt people have
:47:29. > :47:34.gone to school on how the Kiwis have been tacking their boat through this
:47:35. > :47:41.event. On the right-hander of the screen, the green creeping up as
:47:42. > :47:50.they to work. We spoke about their ability to replenish their fuelling
:47:51. > :47:56.supply. 350 is the max number, where the system tops out. It has a valve
:47:57. > :48:08.that will bleed it off at 350, but both teams have plenty of juice
:48:09. > :48:15.left, because of these guys. The final downwind leg for the New
:48:16. > :48:18.Zealanders, who know they are very, very close now. Jimmy Spithill has
:48:19. > :48:47.to pull several cats out of the bag. That second tack, the second split,
:48:48. > :48:53.again. This is desperation time, Christian. You talked about how
:48:54. > :49:02.shifty it was, Christian, but I am not sure it is that shifty to make
:49:03. > :49:05.up a 600, 700 metres lead. I agree. You guys mentioned it, Oracle are
:49:06. > :49:10.making too many mistakes with a bad decision at the bottom mark to go
:49:11. > :49:17.for the late gybe which cost them another 200 metres. And the
:49:18. > :49:28.boundary. The guys are sailing well. Unlovely top mark rounding. Good
:49:29. > :49:33.tacks, good gybes, but making too many errors. They have got to step
:49:34. > :49:44.it up. It is hard to argue with that assessment. For this lot, history is
:49:45. > :49:47.beckoning. No doubt, the kind of characters they are, they will not
:49:48. > :49:56.allow themselves to think too far ahead, but the rest of us can. To
:49:57. > :50:02.look above the heads, on both shrouds, there is a little peace.
:50:03. > :50:08.They are vibration dampening devices. The shrouds are
:50:09. > :50:15.cylindrical. At these speeds they develop a horrible humming noise. It
:50:16. > :50:22.is a vibration. They are asymmetric in shape. Little foils. If you put
:50:23. > :50:26.your hand on it you can stop the vibration sometimes. Instead of
:50:27. > :50:31.putting your hand up and holding on, there are widgets to keep it from
:50:32. > :50:39.vibrating and may be breaking something, they vibrate so
:50:40. > :50:44.violently. They are cruising away at the moment, the New Zealanders. They
:50:45. > :50:49.have sails of outstanding race from the word go, right from the
:50:50. > :50:58.pre-start. When Peter Burling outfoxed Jimmy Spithill. Trapped him
:50:59. > :51:05.into a corner. Headed off into the blue. And he is seemingly not to be
:51:06. > :51:11.caught, not to be stopped. Down the runway he goes. This fearless team,
:51:12. > :51:18.this team that arrived with little baggage. Glenn Ashby the only
:51:19. > :51:22.survivor on-board Emirates Team New Zealand who was present in San
:51:23. > :51:28.Francisco four years ago, and they are out to right the wrongs and they
:51:29. > :51:37.are doing everything in their power to make it happen. Making it look
:51:38. > :51:44.simple. That is the most impressive thing. 100% flight time. Up on the
:51:45. > :51:53.foils for the entire race and the Kiwis hurtling across the finishing
:51:54. > :51:58.line and into match point in the America's Cup. Their dream close to
:51:59. > :52:02.reality and the Trophy tantalisingly within their grasp. But the chickens
:52:03. > :52:08.will not be counted just yet. Talk about almost the perfect race. The
:52:09. > :52:16.100% flight time amidst the pressure, phenomenal. -- fly time.
:52:17. > :52:25.They have been here before. Cast your mind back to 2013 and the
:52:26. > :52:30.dramatic events of possibly the greatest comeback sport has seen and
:52:31. > :52:37.that is what Jimmy Spithill will be clinging on to now, and is just
:52:38. > :52:41.about the only thing he can cling on to now. Celebrations for the New
:52:42. > :52:48.Zealanders. Job not quite done, but they are very close. The standings
:52:49. > :52:54.with the Kiwis, 6-1 ahead, which means they are at match point, one
:52:55. > :53:00.race win from claiming the oldest trophy.
:53:01. > :53:06.You cannot help but be impressed. Their grasp on the oldest trophy in
:53:07. > :53:12.world sport now tantalisingly close. For the Americans, they may be
:53:13. > :53:17.beginning to run out of answers. Jimmy, given the scoreline, who is
:53:18. > :53:22.under more pressure, you all the Kiwis? Probably them to be honest.
:53:23. > :53:29.We have nothing to lose. We have to go out guns blazing and really focus
:53:30. > :53:36.on getting a win on the board. Reflections on the day. Too many
:53:37. > :53:40.mistakes from us. I thought we did a lot of things good but at the end of
:53:41. > :53:44.the day, if you make mistakes you get punished and that is what
:53:45. > :53:49.happened today. If you look at the errors, between the two teams,
:53:50. > :53:54.clearly we made too many which is why they won two races.
:53:55. > :54:00.Congratulations. It looked like you could not put a foot wrong. We still
:54:01. > :54:04.made a lot of mistakes. I think we did a great job from recovering and
:54:05. > :54:08.not giving these guys of opportunity to pass like we did yesterday. We
:54:09. > :54:14.felt we had a good opportunity to win the last race yesterday and we
:54:15. > :54:19.tidied up the issues of yesterday. We are excited with the way we
:54:20. > :54:25.improved and stepped forward. Who is under more pressure, you or Jimmy?
:54:26. > :54:32.We have made it no secret that to win this you have to win eight races
:54:33. > :54:36.and you have to win that last race. We are excited about the opportunity
:54:37. > :54:43.to do that. We have some great fans here. Kiwi flags in the crowd and
:54:44. > :54:47.back home and on the road. We appreciate the support we get from
:54:48. > :54:51.back home. You took a while to come back to the harbour and some of the
:54:52. > :54:56.senior management got on board. What was the basis of that conversation?
:54:57. > :55:03.Are you starting to looking at holding the cup? Like I said before
:55:04. > :55:07.we have things we want to work on and there are things on the boat not
:55:08. > :55:13.working as well as we wanted today which made life harder in some
:55:14. > :55:18.situations. We got guys on board to rectify that test things. We felt we
:55:19. > :55:23.have a better understanding of what is happening. What about you
:55:24. > :55:29.personally? Tomorrow you could make history. Has that sank in? Nothing
:55:30. > :55:33.changes for us, we have to win eight races, which is what we came here to
:55:34. > :55:37.do and what we have been trying to do the last three years. We enjoy
:55:38. > :55:44.situations where you get put under pressure. How much does the result
:55:45. > :55:49.four years ago affect the way you have gone about this campaign,
:55:50. > :55:55.particularly at the sharp end now? Last time, when team New Zealand was
:55:56. > :56:00.in this situation I was in Marseille racing a 49er. The debrief we had
:56:01. > :56:04.after that, it has set is up to be in this position now and I would not
:56:05. > :56:11.be here today without that heartache in San Francisco. You have been an
:56:12. > :56:16.America's Cup helm all your career, is this as tough as it gets? In a
:56:17. > :56:22.team environment you would rather be performing well than not but having
:56:23. > :56:25.said that, we have been here before and had to go through tough
:56:26. > :56:29.situations and pull off comebacks. This was not McLaren coming into
:56:30. > :56:35.this, we would rather do it the other way, but we are here -- this
:56:36. > :56:41.was not our plan coming into this. We will not be waiving any white
:56:42. > :56:45.flags. Punchy talk from Jimmy Spithill. I am joined by Olympic
:56:46. > :56:52.sailor Stevie Morrison. He talked it up but a lot of errors today. He
:56:53. > :56:54.cannot get away from that. They have sacrificed some of the
:56:55. > :56:58.manoeuvrability and control in the boat to be quick but the starting is
:56:59. > :57:05.where we expected him to be strong and he made mistakes today. Team New
:57:06. > :57:11.Zealand, it seems every day, better and better, with no weaknesses. It
:57:12. > :57:17.does not appear so. Yesterday they were perhaps trying to expand, sail
:57:18. > :57:21.the shifts on their own and ignore Oracle. But perhaps part of the
:57:22. > :57:25.debrief last night, part of the team we have not seen, I think the whole
:57:26. > :57:30.team is superb and getting better as the event goes on. You know Peter
:57:31. > :57:35.Burling well and have raced against him. He is only 26. I wonder if the
:57:36. > :57:42.baggage you'd of what could happen is beginning to sink in? I do not
:57:43. > :57:47.see it, he is used to winning, winning the World Championships in a
:57:48. > :57:51.49er and an Olympic gold medal. World title. Everything he does he
:57:52. > :57:58.wins and at the moment he is carrying on on that part. Is it game
:57:59. > :58:05.over? Never say never. It is a race, it is shifty, but a hard fight for
:58:06. > :58:06.Oracle. Four years ago, Oracle did that, coming back from this
:58:07. > :58:10.position. Join us tomorrow.