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.
NZ lost overlap at time mark 0:14 seconds. They were over 20 meters leeward of Oracle. NZ was 3-5 knots slower from the start to mark 1. They never had a chance. Wasn't even close.
Everyone owes it to themselves to watch these races with the live source AND Virtual Eye. Virtual Eye shows everything. Unfortunately, the broadcast, as fantastic as it is, misses so much of the race, and distorts reality because of the camera angle (ie. start/overlap). It doesn't show the overlaps, angles, wind shifts, etc. By looking at both sources you get a REAL picture of what is going on, and it helps to distract from the perpetual psyco-babble spewing form the orifices of the three stooges .
