I was surprised that DB let Oracle off the hook just prior to the start. He got under them and I figured he'd do to them exactly what JS had done, luff them all the way up until they were nearly stopped, then bear off and go.
Jimmy kept pretty high above them, so maybe they were just too far away for that to work for ETNZ? He sure did roll over them right after the gun went off.
I think Oracle managed to keep enough distance between them that if NZ tried to come up to luff Oracle, NZ would have slowed so much to have lost the overlap. When Oracle got on their foils and went into jet fighter mode a few seconds before NZ got going, that start was already lost.
I can't wait to hear the 5 things that Oracle changed that made them better. Apparently NZ has only figured out three of the five things Oracle changed. One of them is wing rake (say that three times really fast).
