Ainslie 6-4 ahead in first-to-seven series‘Hard to sail these boats in these waves’
Britain’s Ineos Britannia piled the pressure on Italy in their fight to be challenger for the America’s Cup on Wednesday, clinching two tight races over Luna Rossa in “knife edge” sea conditions to go within one point of winning the first-to-seven Louis Vuitton Cup series.
Against the backdrop of huge Italian and British flags flying over their bases in Barcelona, both AC75 “foiling” boats were bounced around in choppy seas, hitting speeds of more than 50 knots at times in a stiff Mediterranean breeze.
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