Did you know the AC is going on?

AC

From Sailing Anarchy

Leave it to ESPN to once again show that their America’s Cup broadcast is less important than the Midwestern Cornhole Championship. A search on ESPN+ this morning revealed that they did not have the first AC race of the day available… unless you wanted to watch it in Español! And a further search revealed the above result. FFS, ESPN, seriously?

As for the racing, a nod to TNZ at the start, and they simply sailed away – nothing simple about it actually. Higher and faster, they rounded the first weather mark a whopping 24 seconds ahead. A split on the run saw Frack cut into the lead, but TNZ rounded the leeward mark up by 15 seconds.

GBR going better in these lightish conditions, but the Kiwis are again much better upwind. Pretty shocking, or is it?

The lead approaching the second wm is now 360 meters. TNZ is lighter on its feet, er, foils, and goes through the water much more cleanly than the rather ungainly Frack boat. With a lead of over 600 meters, this is TNZ’s race to lose, which they don’t. This was a beat down of which few expected.

Race 2

Well, now I can watch this race in English. Close start, Kiwis split, gain, and split again, with Frack on the right. Kiwis cross, and it is damn close at the top mark, but Kiwis round 11 seconds ahead. Ineos is smoking on the run and crosses with a 50m lead.

But the left is favored and TNZ crosses and rounds the bottom mark ahead, and crosses by 70m. The breeze is light and the boats are struggling to not belly flop. The Kiwis build a lead and round the weather mark ahead by maybe 10 seconds. Brits close on the run – sound familiar? But the Kiwis are far from slow and they round 10 seconds in front. Once again we hear “There’s nothing in it” numerous times.from the announcers. Christ that is a tiresome cliché.

TNZ smokes on the beat, displaying their superiority to build a 250m lead, and round 28 seconds ahead. Kiwis are unfuckingtouchable with a 32-second lead. Final beat shows that “There is a fuck ton in it” as this race is all but over. Oh wait, it is over. Kiwis win by half a minute and with a quick and dominant 2-0 lead, the Brits are down in a hole.