No British bust: Team UK into America's Cup challenger final

[ASFN Admin]

For a time in the pre-Christmas lead-up to the America's Cup regatta off Auckland it seemed INEOS Team UK would go the same way as so many ill-fated British challenges. The British yacht Britannia didn't win any of its six races in the America's Cup World Series, failing on one occasion even to finish the course. In light-wind racing Britannia would wallow sluggishly in one place while its challenger series rivals - Italy's Luna Rossa and the United States' American Magic - swept around the course, balletically poised on their foils.

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