"But in the end, the victory came down to one of the oldest methods of rescue in team sports: calling a timeout to make adjustments."
"Oracle didn't like the test results and decided against the tactic. "They had it so wrong out of the blocks," said Ken Read, a former America's Cup skipper and current NBC Sports analyst. "It's shocking how much technology they had at their disposal and came out so wrong upwind."
"We just had to configure the boat properly," Ellison said Wednesday. "The guys on the engineering team finally...broke the code. Russell talked about driving the boat lower and faster, rather than higher and slower."
Note: Coutts has stated, that very early on it was Slingsby who pressed the team to foot and sail fast upwind, but his efforts were overruled by the team and engineers. Coutts has given full credit to Slingsby for championing the cause for that drastic change at a critical point in the series.
