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    INEOS Team GB

    It is off the AC topic, but my hat is off to Russell and Hamilton and Mercedes/AMG/Petronas/Ineos for a 3-4 finish in Melbourne based on reliability and strategy despite a car that is still midfield.
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    INEOS Team GB

    It said "race day decisions." That could mean running millions of simulations of various tire strategies and fuel loads based on the weather forecast right up until the lights go out but not during the race. That would be legal. Fun fact: running millions of simulations like this (at least with...
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    INEOS Team GB

    The irony of Larry indirectly subsidizing Ernesto was what sprung to my mind. LOL, indeed!
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    INEOS Team GB

    I suppose you all saw that Oracle is now the title sponsor for Red Bull Racing (the F1 team).
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    Older well known IOR Boats

    You missed some good times. There was an epic photo in the hallway at the Frantic (which I have not been able to track down subsequently) of a weather mark rounding during a Big Boat Series One Ton Cup with a dozen Ranger 37s rounded down simultaneously in a row as they tried to hoist kites...
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    INEOS Team GB

    One of the (many) things I don’t like about these boats is that there is no proper full time tactician which is the most interesting part of the game. If you look at the TP52s or Maxis, the helmsman is basically a very, very, very highly trained monkey who points the boat in the direction he is...
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    INEOS Team GB

    Great example. One reason that worked was that Russell was clearly an extraordinary sailor in his own right who commanded the respect or Spithill and everyone else. It obviously was not a demotion. Sir Ben needs to think of it as a promotion to run the sailing aspect of the team and delegate the...
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    INEOS Team GB

    It seems to me the question isn't really whether Ben is the best helmsman but whether it is too much to put on any one person's plate. You don't see Lewis Hamilton running the Mercedes F1 team or Toto Wolff driving. If you don't like the F1 analogy use your own elite sport analogy whether that...
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    anyone interested in a cal 40 project?

    It was not the Schaefer one but done to a similar quality with an outright focus on racing performance. The owner has had a series of Viva's all done to similar quality: Etchells, Melges 24, Cal 40, Knarr. He is a very, very good sailor coupled with the financial resources to do a good boat...
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    anyone interested in a cal 40 project?

    I am going to go out on a limb and speculate that would have been... somewhere on the border between exhilarating and uneasy.
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    anyone interested in a cal 40 project?

    No change to the sail plan and no reason to change it. The Cal 40 (and the Lapworth 36 which is the same) sail very well up and down. The big triangle main does create a bit of weather helm on a close or beam reach.
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    anyone interested in a cal 40 project?

    There is a Cal 40 in our harbor named Viva that was restored recently to the highest standard you can imagine. New Ballenger rig, Dyneema standing rigging, full 3Di inventory, carbon everywhere. It is absolutely spectacular and hard to imagine a better 40' racer/cruiser no matter what your...
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    INEOS Team GB

    I would argue that you get more marketing dollars from a huge spinnaker going up and down than, hang on a second, who sponsored the last one? I just re-watched the last leg of the 7th race of the LV final in 2000.  Has there ever been a better race?
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    INEOS Team GB

    OK, but if I am VP of marketing for Heineken or Procter and Gamble this whole thing is a shit show. Please provide the narrative of the plucky Kiwis in their own harbor against the might of UK and SUI. I could sell that.
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    INEOS Team GB

    Let's think about this, for a moment, as a taxpayer or resident of Auckland or Cork or Valencia or Jeddah. * In Auckland or Valencia the infrastructure already exists and the weather is pretty agreeable. * In Jeddah there is no bacon & no beer. When they originally invited us they thought...
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    INEOS Team GB

    Isn't there anyone willing to explain (in this largely anonymous forum) the source of this "mistrust"? It seems to me that the NZ government has put some firm ($80mm?) money on the table. Dunphy has put some firm money on the table. Between the two it is certainly enough to mount a viable...
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    INEOS Team GB

    The first installment of the initial entry fee is US$1,000,000. And then the second installment of US$1,250,000.00 needs to be paid by the 1st September 2022. And then there are the additional fees. ACPI contribution – US$25,000 Website contribution – US$150,000 Performance Bond – US$1,000,000
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    INEOS Team GB

    I suspect Toto is smarter than anyone in Milwaukee or Memphis. ^_^
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    INEOS Team GB

    18th in the last Grand Prix was Mazepin driving for Haas. What are you on about? Mercedes AMG has 1500 employees, and they cannot keep them all under the new budget limits. This is a very sensible way for Mercedes to keep the talent on the payroll.
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    INEOS Team GB

    I disagree. I am of the opinion that Mercedes AMG F1 expertise in CFD and aerodynamics will be very helpful in wing design and optimization if not in foil design, but I accept that I could be wrong about that. Having said that, even if Mercedes is of no use whatsoever on the design side I...


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