Whoever wins race 3 wins the cup - with only exception in the past 
100+ years*.
So ...

Delayed start.
I ended up sleeping on a mattress in the lounge with a timer to wake 
me occasionally to see if the start was imminent.

Very very messy and quite light wind.
Choppy conditions from very strong overnight storm.

Vast amounts of skill.
Several bad mistakes on both sides.
Lead swapped several times during race, which is very rare.

This will go down in history as one of the great races of the 
America's Cup.
But ultimately, the outcome was pure luck, clothed in skill and 
mistakes.

But, you can't knock it.
After all, we won
:-)

Team NZ 2    Alinghi 1



        Russell

* There is no REALLY good reason why this is so, but several reasons 
why it may have some possible significant correlation in some cases. 
I'd say that it has little or no predictive power in this case.

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