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America's Cup 2021: Luna Rossa reportedly alter boat design to match Team New Zealand 3 Jan, 2021 08:10 PM 3 minutes to read The America's Cup design warfare is in full swing with Luna Rossa altering its boat to match a Team New Zealand innovation. The Italian sailing website Fare Vela reported it had spotted the changes around the cockpit area of their AC75 boat over the weekend. "Luna Rossa has created the fairings to optimise the aerodynamics of the deck and reduce the drag of the crew," it reported. "The new measure was hypothesised by several observers after seeing the best fairing o...

RICKY WILSON/Stuff Team New Zealand used incredible speed to thrash Luna Rossa in decent winds for the world series opener. Bruni acknowledged the potency of Emirates Team New Zealand's Te Rehutai which cleverly covered the broad wind range the world series delivered. “I have seen several clever things on their boat. For now they are with a foil configuration geared for medium to strong wind, although they have an incredible ability to adapt even to light wind,” Bruni told “They were good at racing in light winds, with foils that tended to be small. “I think we have a successful ...

American Magic was third with 40 and INEOS Team UK trailed the small fleet with 35. The Kiwis won the highly competitive world series from American Magic with Luna Rossa third and the British fourth without a race win. RICKY WILSON/Stuff Team New Zealand used incredible speed to thrash Luna Rossa in decent winds for the world series opener. Tognozzi acknowledged the all-round package of Team New Zealand’s radical new boat Te Rehutai as “a set of solutions interacting with each other”. Fare Vela gave an edge to the Kiwis in medium winds and downwind. But Luna Rossa made up for that w...