OK, there is one other boat, you don't care about anything but sticking it to that guy, especially if he is ON THE LAYLINE, ON PORT. I would have borne off and aimed right at them, yelling Starboard! all the way. They tack, you tack, you are now on the layline, you round, they have to tack twice to round. You just cost them two tacks and you might be able to hold them off downwind, but in this case, I think even if Alinghi had done that, BMWO was so much faster, they would have caught and passed them downwind. But Alinghy didn't even put up a fight, why not?

I think nobody on Alinghi knew anything about match racing...