In what might have been the worst kept secret of the current America’s Cup, the British INEOS Team UK has been confirmed this morning, Friday 19th March, as the Challenger…
America’s Cup team: INEOS Britannia
America’s Cup: Why day 2 made things exciting and confusing
I am going to need therapy after this America’s Cup. In 30 years of covering events as a journalist/commentator I can’t think of one that has so consistently delivered the…
America’s Cup: Our analysis of INEOS’ development
Mere days before the Prada Cup Final to select one of either INEOS Team UK or Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli as the team to take on Emirates Team New Zealand…
Prada Cup Final: Italy edges closer to victory
INEOS Team UK started the third day of Prada Cup Final racing trailing Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli by four wins as both teams fight for the right to be the…
Prada Cup Final to continue on Saturday
The Prada Cup Final, to select the challenger for the America’s Cup, between INEOS Team UK and Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli will restart on Saturday 20th February, following a brief…
Prada Cup: How new lockdown could affect the outcome
After the opening four races of the Prada Cup Final over the weekend, racing was set to continue between INEOS Team UK and Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli on Wednesday 17th…
Prada Cup Final: Italians look quick on day one
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli won both opening races against INEOS Team UK on the first day of racing in the Prada Cup Final on the Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, as…
Ben Ainslie: we can out-sail Luna Rossa in Prada Cup
“I think it will be a very, very closely fought final, that’s my expectation,” Ben Ainslie said speaking to Yachting World just days before Prada Cup Final between his British America’s…
Prada Cup Final: Stage set for epic showdown
It has only been two weeks since we last saw racing in the Prada Cup, precursor to the America’s Cup, but for those who have been following closely, it has…
America’s Cup Challengers: The view from Auckland
Reversing the odds over the space of four weeks where the worst performing America’s Cup team became the best and vice versa, was on nobody’s radar down here in Auckland…
Prada Cup Round Robin: Best pictures so far from America’s Cup qualifying
Before the start of the Prada Cup Round Robin, almost no one knew what the relative performance of each team was. We’d been able to watch some of the teams…
British America’s Cup team: Ainslie’s comeback explained
After the first AC75 racing we saw in the America’s Cup cycle, the British team looked to be in trouble with an uncompetitive boat. But since the start of the…
Prada Cup day one: Surprise as Brits take both wins
What a difference three and a half weeks make! INEOS Team UK have gone from being a team that were borderline embarrassingly slow in the America’s Cup World Series in…
How the America’s Cup contenders compare going into the Prada Cup
As each of the new AC75s were wheeled out into the open for the first time, amid the celebration and champagne spraying, each team will have been keenly aware that…
How Formula 1 tech is helping the America’s Cup contenders fly around the course
But in reality it’s difficult to make such a collaboration work because the differences tend to outweigh the points of crossover. However, the word from inside Ben Ainslie’s team is…
INEOS Team UK grinder David Carr explains what it’s really like to sail an AC75
“When you push off the dock, your life is in the hands of computers – and the guy piloting the boat out of the water, of course. All the systems…
Road to the America’s Cup podcast episode 5: Designing the AC75’s hull
Four AC75s have now been launched, and each of these brand new America’s Cup class boats reveals the thinking of its team’s designers and sailors. There are more differences than…
Ainslie gets £110 million backing from Ineos for second bid to win America’s Cup with BAR team
Anglo-Swiss chemicals and manufacturing company Ineos will fully fund Ben Ainslie’s America’s Cup team in what is the biggest – and fastest – sponsorship investment in British sailing. The £110m…