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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263854
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Oracle just started foiling and closed the gap.


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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263855
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+/-100m lead for ETNZ, race not over yet!
Oracle going about 3kts faster foiling upwind.

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Both teams foiling upwind and Oracle passes.


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2 lead changes upwind


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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263858
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Oracle's VMG is much better when they are foiling upwind


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Fourth lead change upwind on leg 3


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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263860
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Dead even at mark 3. Wow.


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Crossing downwind. NZ on STB


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What the . . .
Not smart Oracle


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Halfway the downwind leg and just 1m ahead!!

Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263864
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Originally Posted by P.M.
What the . . .
Not smart Oracle

Can the kiwis cross?

Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263865
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That was a hard lesson for Oracle to learn.


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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263866
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Tony, seems like your feed is a couple of minutes behind mine. Sorry.


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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263868
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Originally Posted by P.M.
Tony, seems like your feed is a couple of minutes behind mine. Sorry.

My router had a hickup between races, should have refreshed the page smile

Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263869
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Guys, it's worth your time to watch race 10 on Virtual Eye
Select "HISTORICAL" on bottom right of page.
Select "AC34 FINALS" on bottom right of page.
Select Race 10. On the buttons on the left turn ON:
Advantage Distance ON
Yacht Speed Arrows ON
Yacht Trail ON
Wind Arrows ON (it will show the slight shift)
Information Panel ON (it will show race timer)
100 Meter Ladder Grid ON

Fascinating to watch this race on Virtual Eye. During a race, I always watch on multiple screens:
1) Virtual Eye
2) NBC Live Broadcast
3) YouTube LiveLine.

At the bottom of the page you can control Play, Forward, Reverse, Fast Forward, Fast Reverse or select a leg. You can jump to the beginning of leg 3 be selecting the Red Circle 2.
This is where it gets good around the 10:45 minute time stamp. Watch Oracle's VMG take off and they close the gap when they start foiling. Also, great to watch the downwind crossing on the next leg.

Unfortunately, when NBC goes to commercial they miss so much of the race. Virtual Eye and the LiveLine add so much more and covers everything the commercial breaks miss. For Race 10 Virtual Eye ROCKS!




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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263870
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Live Presser Now



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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263871
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Presser Replay


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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263874
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Was listening to race ten at thirty thousand feet... Punched the airplane window when etnz crossed. Great race though. How can you not love this racing?

Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #263875
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Oracle error handed race10 to the NZ.

Why not gybe and drop right in and drag race it from there? Error cost them 200+m and threw them outta sorts there. Can't make those mistakes this late. Needed that win - specially after totally getting it done on the 3rd leg and eating up 150m to take the slight lead at the 3rd mark heading into the shore....

NZ only needs 2. Can Oracle make a race of this!? ;-)

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