I'm not. Nothing worth rooting for in Larry Ellisons team. It is all "lots of money", no interesting engineering, new concepts or even out of the box thinking. And to top it off, "money" lost in no unsignificant way last time.
Alighni is LOTS more interesting. At least they try new stuff.
Wouter
And you would have first hand knowledge of the Oracle multihull???
Don't judge it till you see it. I think you will be surprised.
Ok, you guys are going to have quit quoting this nonsense because I don't see it normally.
What a baseless piece of crap claim!
If we want to briefly talk about the last cup - BMW/Oracle did have the technology...they just got spanked on the water tactically and IMHO it was a result of loading up the skipper with too much team management responsibility outside of driving the boat. Their boat had plenty of speed and they proved it again and again but dug too deep a hole off the start line dig out of.
This is going to be really interesting. Ellison has pulled the plug on the financial bathtub and I guarantee you the boat coming out their shed is going to be a very well refined, thoroughly designed, monster. Likewise for Alinghi though on some level, I don't think Bertarelli cares enough anymore to plan on the same level.
I know I'm going to regret this, but can you list the "new stuff" Alinghi has used in the AC?
