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
Well when the little ac was taken from the c-class and made into a F18 event Steve Clark and a few others jumped back in and formed the I4C to replace it. I know that the little ac was run once, but has it seen the light of day since then? If LE walks away, which I do not think that he will, who would step up to challenge for it next?