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It has been a tough week for Alinghi Red Bull Racing with yesterday’s session called off due to a medical emergency caused when raising the mainsail and today some pretty serious rudder damage caused to BoatZero whilst beginning an exit from a fast reach, bearing away in around 12 knots of...

One quality you can firmly associate with Alinghi Red Bull Racing is persistence, and today (Tuesday) patience was added to the list as the team waited all day for the thermal Garbi breeze to filter in along the Barcelona waterfront and were rewarded with beautiful sailing conditions late in the...

Take an AC40 out into 20 knots of breeze and you can be absolutely certain of an interesting afternoon. And Alinghi Red Bull Racing certainly had a very interesting one off the waterfront in Barcelona as the sailors rotated in to give everyone maximum time on the water and the clear brief to...

Does the AC40 come with some kind of simulator supplied?

If there were any doubts as to the levels of confidence building into the Alinghi Red Bull Racing programme, they were thoroughly dispelled on a devastating Monday session that saw Dean Barker return in his role as Sailing Team Advisor monitoring and gauging the significant improvements that...

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The upward trajectory continues for Alinghi Red Bull Racing after another superb sailing performance in Barcelona springtime conditions aboard the heavily modified BoatZero. The cyclors were earning their keep, buried away aero-style in the very guts of the AC75 whilst the new communications...

^ that boat is starting to look fast

From the glossy AC_GPT brochure: Alinghi Red Bull Racing gave the America’s Cup world a glimpse toward the future on Saturday as the team debuted their new deck layout and reduced numbers as a result taking the crew down to eight and bringing aero cyclors into the Swiss mix. Word coming out...

Yes, you would think it is from ChatBot but that really is what is in the Description below that video. Click the YT link and 'more' then you can see it. If I post any more over-the-top SailGPT material, I will again label it as such ;)

It’s the video that every America’s Cup and nascent AC40 team around the world will be poring over, offering a glimpse into the challenge that the world’s greatest sailors are going to face in Barcelona in September and October 2024. The swell came in today for Alinghi Red Bull Racing aligned...

Crossed my mind too. There seems to be some friendliness and willingness to deal, between Alinghi and AM. Maybe Botin is key to it. Doesn't Alinghi also have an ex AM main foil?

^ He mentions that the newly installed rudder is a legacy rudder they acquired.

A frustrating Thursday for both Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and Alinghi Red Bull Racing as both teams attempted to sail but found conditions conspiring against them. For Alinghi Red Bull Racing, March 2nd is a date etched into the team’s DNA as it marks the moment 20 years ago when Ernesto...

Good catch. Maybe the 'recumbent' helps to explain the new cockpit layout?

A shorter version