I really fail to understand why anyone would put themselves through all this agro 'just' for a bloody boat race. For the price of the sheets on one of those things, you could buy yourself a new F18 and go and race the best in the world.

I guess that I should assume that its not about a boat race any more - it a business that happens to involve boats.

The best thing would be for the Oracle lot to say - ' sod it Ernesto, keep your cup, we are going to sail something else' the AC could then take a break until someone wants to make it a boat race again