Too late to request USS to collect the info for this year's event. Perhaps soliciting the teams yourself? It would be nice because so many of the variables are constant due to the same boat model with rotation. If conducting multivariate analysis, I would have crew weight, wind strength, and order of finish as my initial variables and result. Thereafter, a simple rating factor might be added to try to control for "race experience" and/or familiarity with the F16/Viper platform. There should be enough observations from the race to make a pretty good analysis of the crew weight's coefficient of determination except that there may not have been enough higher winds races.