America's Cup Defenders Alinghi was another America's Cup team, the third placed BMW ORACLE Racing skippered by James Spithill, which got things off to a flying start today by taking the first four race wins - was the scoreboard set for another shake up?
Alinghi were back in the pack on the first lap of races two and three, rounding mark one back in 9th position ! at one stage. But they kept a cool head to pick off several boats on e ach leg, scoring consistant fourth, fifth and sixth places to keep their nose in front overall.
As expected TEAMORIGIN were putting in a spirited fight, splitting to the opposite sides of the racecourse to their Alinghi rivals and scoring a string of second and third places to take second overall and eat away at Alinghi's lead - at one point there were just four points in it. Alinghi came back strongly in the penultimate race - taking a brave port tack approach to the start line they led the race from start to finish, extending their advantage on the leaderboard.
Going into the final race there were seven points in it - and with double scores available TEAMORIGIN could still get in front. Alinghi went for a port tack start, while TEAMORIGIN hit the line at speed. Alinghi chased TEAMORIGIN's tail right around the course, but while TEAMORIGIN held on to win it was Alinghi who had done enough to take the event overall.
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