08/2010 – BMW ORACLE Racing may have won the war in a race around the Isle of Wight, but it dropped a battle on the Solent. BMW ORACLE Racing awoke yesterday trailing the match race regatta against TEAMORIGIN 4-1. But with wins worth 3 points, the American yacht quickly tied the series by winning the […]
Continue Reading ...08/2010 – This week in Cowes (UK), two of sailing’s youngest, most talented skippers – Jimmy Spithill and Ben Ainslie – square off in The 1851 Cup, a one-off match racing regatta between America’s Cup winner BMW ORACLE Racing and TEAMORIGIN of the U.K. Australian Jimmy Spithill, aged 30 last February, became the youngest skipper […]
Continue Reading ...09/2009 – Tim Jeffery joins BMW ORACLE Racing as Director, Communications. The 33rd America’s Cup will be his ninth. He has reported on the America’s Cup, as well as five Olympics and many of the world’s major sailing events as The Daily Telegraph’s (London) longstanding sailing correspondent. His work has been appeared in many of […]
Continue Reading ...11/2008 – DOGZILLA ATTACKS. The BMW Oracle Team goes on testing their new trimaran in California. At sea since August 25th, 2008, the BOR 90 is now berthed in her new base, after having sailed in Anacortes (North East of the USA). Symbolically, the team has settled down where Dennis Conner and his team Stars […]
Continue Reading ...Sailing teams from the USA, New Zealand, Italy and France will contest the semi-finals of the Louis Vuitton Trophy Dubai starting Friday.
Continue Reading ...08/2010 – Aethon Wing Destroyed; Americans Out of International C-Class Catamaran Championship Yesterday (Aug. 25th) the C-Class Catamaran Aethon capsized after the start of race one of the International C Class Catamaran Championship (long nicknamed the “Little America’s Cup” read also our article) and her wing was destroyed. The team hit a patch of turbulence […]
Continue Reading ...02/2010 – BMW ORACLE Racing Team’s revolutionary wing sail powered trimaran USA-17, designed by VPLP [read our article], convincingly won Race 2 off Valencia today to win the 33rd America’s Cup match outright. The American team, founded ten years ago by software mogul Larry Ellison, achieved its ultimate goal when they powered across the finish […]
Continue Reading ...11/2008 – Russell Coutts, CEO and Skipper of BMW ORACLE Racing, today announced that BOR 90, the syndicate’s state-of-the-art trimaran, has successfully completed Phase I of its sea trials in San Diego. The 90 foot high-tech trimaran now will undergo further modifications to improve performance based on the team’s experiences with the trimaran on the […]
Continue Reading ...Racing in its second home, Emirates Team New Zealand won the Louis Vuitton Trophy Dubai today, defeating the USA’s BMW Oracle Racing in two straight races.
Continue Reading ...As preparations continue for the Louis Vuitton Trophy Dubai, two of the four race boats being used in the event sailed for the first time at the venue on Sunday afternoon.
Continue Reading ...Monday 31st May 2021, the launch ceremony of the new RSY 38m EXP took place in the presence of the owners and their family, in full compliance with the COVID measures, which did not hinder the important operations of launching a new boat.
