America's Cup second race gets under way
- Published: 14/02/2010 at 10:54 PM
- Online news: Sports
The second race of the 33rd America's Cup on Sunday between US side Oracle and defending champions Alinghi got under way Sunday after being delayed for several hours to wait for better sailing conditions.
US challenger Oracle giant trimaran sails at the start of the opening race of the 33rd America's Cup off Valencia's coast. The start of the second race of the 33rd America's Cup between US side Oracle and defending champions Alinghi has got under way after being delayed for several hours to wait for better sailing conditions.
The race - a 39-mile triangle - began at 4:25 pm (1525 GMT) off the coast of the Spanish port of Valencia. It had originally been scheduled to start at 10 am.
Alinghi are in a must win situation after their catamaran suffered a heavy loss in the opener - a 40-nautical-mile windward-leeward course - of the best-of-three series on Friday against Oracle's wing-sailed trimaran.
The Swiss side were very slow in getting into the start box and were given an early penalty for being outside of it when the signal to start the race went off. Oracle was ahead by about 400 meters 5 minutes after the start.
Winds had been weak and unstable in the morning but built into a steady breeze of about 6 knots at the time of the start of what could possibly be the decider.
Oracle defeated Alinghi in the first race series on Friday by 15:28 minutes, the biggest winning margin since the 27th edition of the America's Cup in 1988 when the US catamaran Stars & Stripes defeated New Zealand's KZ1 monohull.
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