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Photo: © Lloyd Images |
Photo: © Lloyd Images |
Ben Ainslie, Skipper/Team Principal
"A really big day for the Tacticians. Giles Scott did an awesome job for us, getting us going in the right direction and making the right choices on the modes that we sailed the boat, and the sails that we used.
"The team work was the key to the day in these conditions, you need good starts, and you need to go the right way, but the crew work has to be perfect. If you miss a manoeuvre it costs you hundreds of metres; they [the crew] did a really good job today."
Giles Scott, Tactician
"We're really pleased with that [second] race, it was a case of keeping it simple. The manoeuvres are so costly, so you have to get a good start, we did that then it was a question of getting to the bottom gate and staying clean from there.
"We had a little chat about the start [of the second race], and we thought the line was reasonably even with a slight preference to the leeward end. Normally it's really congested down there, but Ben did a great job of owning that end, it was a really good start and we came good from there."
Paul 'CJ' Campbell James
"Day one of Oman was as expected with light winds, we have done a lot of training in these conditions back home and it really paid off today. We are moving forward through the fleet which always feels good. And especially in the last race we seemed to have good speed, good boat handling and good tactics, and that won us the race so everyone is really happy with race day one in Muscat."
Racing continues tomorrow (Sunday) at 1400 local time (GMT+4) with three races scheduled.
Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series Oman Leaderboard after 3 races:
1. Land Rover BAR - 8, 10, 10 - 28 points
2. Oracle Team USA - 9, 6, 9 - 24 points
3. Emirates Team NZ - 10, 7, 5 - 22 points
4. SoftBank Team Japan - 6, 9, 6 - 21 points
5. Artemis Racing - 7, 5, 8- 20 points
6. Groupama Team France - 5, 8, 7 - 20 points
"The team work was the key to the day in these conditions, you need good starts, and you need to go the right way, but the crew work has to be perfect. If you miss a manoeuvre it costs you hundreds of metres; they [the crew] did a really good job today."
Giles Scott, Tactician
"We're really pleased with that [second] race, it was a case of keeping it simple. The manoeuvres are so costly, so you have to get a good start, we did that then it was a question of getting to the bottom gate and staying clean from there.
"We had a little chat about the start [of the second race], and we thought the line was reasonably even with a slight preference to the leeward end. Normally it's really congested down there, but Ben did a great job of owning that end, it was a really good start and we came good from there."
Paul 'CJ' Campbell James
"Day one of Oman was as expected with light winds, we have done a lot of training in these conditions back home and it really paid off today. We are moving forward through the fleet which always feels good. And especially in the last race we seemed to have good speed, good boat handling and good tactics, and that won us the race so everyone is really happy with race day one in Muscat."
Racing continues tomorrow (Sunday) at 1400 local time (GMT+4) with three races scheduled.
Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series Oman Leaderboard after 3 races:
1. Land Rover BAR - 8, 10, 10 - 28 points
2. Oracle Team USA - 9, 6, 9 - 24 points
3. Emirates Team NZ - 10, 7, 5 - 22 points
4. SoftBank Team Japan - 6, 9, 6 - 21 points
5. Artemis Racing - 7, 5, 8- 20 points
6. Groupama Team France - 5, 8, 7 - 20 points
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