I too am a little perplexed about the pre-start skills shown by BMW. They obviously put a ton of resources in developing the boat and team...but you think you would take your skippers/tacticians and challenge them to do nothing less than "write the book" on starting a match race.

The other thing I don't understand the reasoning is why they designate that one team enter the box from the left and the other enter from the right. I guess I've just missed that in other match racing starts - but why not just say "hey, the sequence starts now, start starting" (in the same way we do fleet racing). It just seems that the entire starting process and spin-up is so predictable...which also leads me to wonder how you can spend so much time preparing the entire campaign but mess up such a predictable sequence so badly.