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Titolo: Dal televideo

"Allenamenti alle ultime battute nel Golfo di Hauraki dove martedì parte
la Louis Vuitton Cup, che designerà la sfidante di New Zealand in Coppa
America. In un'intervista ad un quotidiano locale l'ex eroe di "Black
Magic", Russell Coutts, diventato skipper dello yacht svizzero, parla di
"Luna Rossa" campione uscente e mette l'accento sull'innovativo albero
utilizzato dalla barca italiana che è una diretta evoluzione del
"millennium rig" usato dai neozelandesi nella finale del 2000.Per Coutts
potrebbe essere l'arma vincente."
Non ha detto propriamente questo, pero'...
-- 
"30 orizzontale, 2 lettere: lo e' la domenica
di Rai 1."
"Opel."
"Eh?"
"Il 30 orizzontale e': costruisce l'Astra. Ed 
e' di 4 lettere."
"Tu bari."

 Non ha detto propriamente questo, pero'...
Se lo dici tu...
--
Sirthan
sir...@hotmail.com
124260884

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No, lo dice lui, sul New Zealand Herald:
New team, old thirst for victory 
21.09.2002
By JULIE ASH 
Love him or hate him, in a little over a week's time Russell Coutts and
his Swiss team, Alinghi, will line up as favourites to win the
challenger series and the right to race Team New Zealand for the
America's Cup. 
Looking at the Alinghi Challenge, backed by Swiss pharmaceutical
billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli, it is easy to see why they are rated so
highly. 
Money may not buy them the cup but it has supplied Alinghi with
everything else: a flash base, good designers and some of the best
sailors in the business. 
"If people want to label us a favourites, fine," says Coutts. 
"If they want to label us as underdog, fine. If I thought it affected
the result it would worry me but as it doesn't, I couldn't care less." 
Along with their big budget and talent, Alinghi's tag as favourites
comes after their success in the informal racing that all of the
challengers have engaged in. 
"Until the racing starts you can't judge it," Coutts says. 
"We spend months and months doing our own testing out on the water and
sometimes we are even confused about that. So how much can you draw from
racing someone once?" 
Competing in his third cup, Coutts' eyes light up when asked about the
challenge that lies ahead. 
While he is aware that emotions still run high over his defection from
Team New Zealand, not even the controversial BlackHeart campaign, which
he refuses to comment on, can stifle Coutts' enthusiasm for America's
Cup racing. 
"I love the competition. The development intrigues me and this time the
challenge of putting together a new team offshore has been great." 
Coutts, who has a background in engineering, is obviously excited about
what he sees around him. 
"Even in the informal racing some of the big teams have been beaten. 
"I doubt whether anyone is going to be completely dominant throughout
the series." 
He says there is more difference in the boats this time than the last
regatta. 
"Oracle have the most radical boats, probably. They are narrow and
probably light in displacement. 
"Stars and Stripes have an interesting boat ... It is narrower than
anyone else's - way narrower than Oracle's. 
"Last time, Stars and Stripes were a bit like the 1995 generation. It
was a good standard boat. 
"This time, they have gone quite radical, which is great. That is what
this event's about: innovation and pushing the limits. 
"Prada have got an innovative mast. They have got two rigging elements
down the outside of the mast. 
"Instead of having one, they have devised a system to have two, which
creates less drag. 
"They are the only ones who have that system at the moment. That sort of
thing moves the game up another level," Coutts says. 
"It looks like Great Britain have gone for a tandem keel on their boat
by the position of the mast and the way they lift the boat in and out of
the water. So they have gone back to a keel possibly like what NZL20 had
in 1995." 
Coutts says some designers may have favoured a tandem keel because at
high speed in strong winds yachts create a wave trough. If you separate
the keels you also separate where the trough forms on the hull, which
can reduce drag. 
"Some of the teams have tried forward rudders, or canards where you have
two rudders and a centre keel thing. 
"There has been a lot of innovation this time. I love this part of the
sport." 
Coutts says the strong design teams would have looked at what Team New
Zealand did last time and perhaps tested some of those ideas. 
"But I think they will have gone well beyond that. When I look around I
am sure they have as they are all coming up with such different ideas. 
"Bruce Farr [Oracle designer] said in an interview that a good programme
will look back at a spread of the old series but not make too many
assumptions because you might miss some of the best features that never
got a chance to be developed. 
"Some of the challengers had very good ideas last time but had such a
short time to develop them." 
Finding a weakness in the Alinghi team is hard, although some question
how 14 nationalities will function together. 
"You walk around the hallways and you hear people talking in Spanish,
French and German," Coutts says. "Then we have a design co-ordinator who
is Australian - but he can't help that. Getting that mix of people
working together is a great achievement. 
"Everyone has different philosophies and it has taken a while to learn
about our people and how to get the best out of them." 
Syndicate boss Bertarelli will be on board as navigator when his
business permits him to be in Auckland. 
"Ernesto just wants to be part of the team. He is as passionate about
sailing as I am about trying to learn golf." 
For Alinghi the next few days will involve final tuning and finishing
some modifications on one of their boats. 
"There aren't a lot of nerves around yet but there will be on race day
because it is going to be such a competitive event." 
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