He Emirates Team New Zealand This Saturday he was proclaimed champion of the 37th America’s Cup Sailingdisputed in Barcelona and where the kiwis and their AC75 Taihoro reconquered, by winning for the third consecutive time, the “Jug of the Hundred Guineas” against an INEOS Britannia which was only able to put up resistance for one day of this Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match.
With a final result of 7-2, the ‘Defender’ of this America’s Cup He achieved his goal of retaining the title, his third in a row and his fifth Jug overall, with absolute domination over the ‘Britannia II’ of Sir Ben Ainslie and company, who still failed to win their first America’s Cup.
On the contrary, the kiwis, with him always Peter Burling like a great banner in the water thanks to their three consecutive victories, they celebrate in Barcelona a great success for them, after having dominated – except that day with 2 British victories – this grand final.
“I am very proud of everyone’s collective work. “Right now I feel incredible emotion,” he said. Burling, helmsman of the ETNZ, after the first and finally last regatta this Saturday and this Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona.
On the sixth day of competition of the final ‘Match’, Emirates Team New Zealand, closely followed by its CEO Grant Dalton – who will be focused on him in the coming days in case he announces which city will host the 38th edition -, takes off again with the finesse and beauty that characterizes the Taihoro and won the ninth and final race 37 seconds ahead of the British.
Although he entered the track in the lead after a great fight in the pre-start box, the INEOS Brittany He couldn’t take the lead and we already know that we can’t give anything to Emirates Team New Zealand. The New Zealanders went to the right, towards their favorite area and today with a better wind, and at the first pass they were already ahead.
It was only during the third of six rounds of this final regatta that the INEOS being only 10 meters from the stern of the “kiwi”, but this excitement did not translate into overtaking and the excitement was, for the British, less so. Instead, emotion gripped the members of Emirates Team New Zealand kilometer after kilometer.
Moltes honors Barcelona right under the New Zealand flag on the mast of the New Zealand ship. Clear message that could be read on board the Taihoro Shortly after the victory, the whole team, both the sailors and the support team and on land, celebrated this success as if there was no tomorrow. But if there will be a tomorrow for America’s Cup and it remains to be seen whether it will be in Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga or outside Spain. AND Dalton and the ETNZ, once again, the winners and “Defender” will decide.
For now, this 37th edition closes with lights and shadows. Although it seems to be, according to the organization, the one with many more lights. Despite the fact that the wind did its job for several days, and even unexpected storms appeared in the waters of Barcelona, the majority of teams give very good marks to Barcelona and the organization of this Copa del América which, as usual, was won. by “Defender”.
On only seven occasions, the team which defends the title, which is the organizer and the one which lays the foundations of the regulations – with the approval of the Challenger of Record – of the following edition, has not won the title. One of those who broke with this trend was the “Black Magic” of New Zealand, during the 1995 edition in San Diego, beating the “Defender” of the “Young America” of the United States.
On this occasion, in front of a INEOS Brittany what surprised Luna Rossa Italian Prada Pirelli in the Louis Vuitton Cup to become the ‘Challenger’ of the New Zealanders, the ‘kiwi’ team did not let themselves be surprised and left the British, once again very close to winning the Jug for the first time, without reward. This 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona ends, the sails and the AC75s are put away and the race begins to know which venue Grant Dalton and his team will choose to defend the title.
