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Main Facts
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Internet
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Yacht
Club
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Golden
Gate
Yacht Club
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USA
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Budget
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Challenge
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Challenger
of record
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ACC
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2002
: USA 71 & 76
2000 : USA 59 & 61
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Syndicate
Head
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Larry
Ellison
(USA)
Chris Dickson
(NZL)
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Design
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Bruce
Farr
(NZL)
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Skipper
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Chris
Dickson
(USA)
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Helms
men
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Gavin
Brady *
(NZL)
Bertrand Pacé*
(FRA)
Chris Dickson
(NZL)
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After
guard
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John
Kostecki*
(USA)
Steve Hayles
(GBR)
Dirk de Ridder
(NED)
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Sponsors
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BMW
Oracle
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* New Team
Member
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BMW Oracle starts
sailing in Valencia (07/30/04)
(source
: BMW Oracle Racing)
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BMW Oracle Racing began the first training session
with its America's Cup Class boats in Valencia, Spain
this week.
The team is working from its temporary base at the
Real Club Nautico Valencia where they will train through
August before heading to Marseille for Louis Vuitton
Act One.
"We are looking forward to the experience and
getting to know Valencia," said BMW Oracle Racing
CEO and Skipper Chris Dickson. "This is a period
of learning for us both on the water and on the shore.
But our first impressions are positive. During our
first few days of sailing, we enjoyed beautiful conditions
with a strong afternoon sea breeze and warm temperatures."
The international team is using the session in Valencia
to evaluate the longer term plans. For many team members,
this is their first time to Valencia. The team will
be in Valencia until late October following Louis
Vuitton Acts Two and Three.
"We will use this time in Valencia to test our
systems and identify our strengths and weaknesses
as we continue to work toward closing the gap on the
America's Cup Defender," Dickson said. |
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SUI 64 and USA 76
expected in Valencia (07/12/04)
(sources
: Masmar & Las Provincias)
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After the UBS Trophy in Newport, SUI 64 and USA
76 were shipped together to Spain and are planned
to arrive on July 14 in Valencia.
For some days, the two shore teams are working hard
to prepare the RCN de Valencia base and all will be
ready soon for intense training to commence once more.
USA-71, the first of two boats built for Oracle Racing's
assault on the America's Cup 2003, is in Valencia
since few days, shipped from Auckland with the first
element of the Team NZ package. Alinghi 75 arrived
in Spain (from France) on Saturday and was unloaded
from a container ship.
As soon as the boats will be ready to sail, the two
teams will focus on tests and in-house racing in Valencia.
This period will be of great importance just over
two months are to go before the start of the Marseille
Louis Vuitton - Act 1 (commencing on the 5th September,
2004). |
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Johan Barne joins
BMW Oracle Racing team (07/08/04)
(source
: BMW Oracle Racing)
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BMW Oracle Racing has recruited the Swedish world
class sailor Johan Barne who joins the team as second
navigator.
The Göteborg-born navigator, who participated in the
Olympic Games three times (1992, 1996, 2000) and named
"Sailor of the Year" in Sweden three times (1992,
1995, 1999), brings his America's Cup experience from
Sweden's Victory Challenge in 2002/2003 to the BMW
Oracle Racing Team in its preparations for the America's
Cup. |
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Bertrand
Pacé joins BMW Oracle Racing (06/18/04)
(source
: Oracle
BMW Racing)
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Bertrand Pacé, France's leading match
race sailor, has joined the BMW Oracle Racing team
as training helmsman and part of the afterguard for
the team's 2007 America's Cup campaign.
This week's signing of the 42-year-old will reinforce
the afterguard centered around CEO and Skipper Chris
Dickson.
"We are fortunate to have a match racing helmsman
as experienced as Bertrand joining our team",
Dickson said. "Bertrand will push us in our training
and will make significant contributions as part of
the afterguard. The knowledge and talent he developed
through five America's Cup campaigns will strengthen
our program. We are pleased to welcome Bertrand on
board."
Pacé has his sights set on being part of a
winning America's Cup team in Valencia in 2007. He
is steering towards his sixth America's Cup participation
-- after 1987 (with French Kiss Syndicate), 1992,
1995 and 2000 (each time with Le Defi) and 2003 (with
Team New Zealand). In 1994 he was Match Race World
Champion, six years later he triumphed in the Swedish
Match Tour.
The expert French match racer is looking forward to
this new challenge.
"It is a great honor for me to be part of the
BMW Oracle Racing team," Pacé said. "The
team looks solid with great people in place in all
aspects of the program from sailing to design".
"I have great respect for those already on board
and I see this as an incredible opportunity. I want
to win the America's Cup and to me this team seems
to have the talent and the technology to be capable
of winning in 2007. I am looking forward to joining
the team later this month in Newport and then onto
Valencia." |
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BMW
Oracle Racing expected in Valencia (05/30/04)
(source
: Masmar)
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Since last February Chris Dickson, with his
crew and the rest of the team, has been working
in Auckland carrying out a long series of tests,
technical evaluations and practicing match racing.
The BMW Oracle Racing sailing team have now finished
its Southern Hemisphere summer training session
and the activities will relocate first to
USA for the UBS Trophy (19-26 June) and then to
Valencia from around mid July.
Like the other syndicates present in Spain, the
Larry Ellison's team will use the Real Club
Náutico de Valencia accomodations.
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BMW
sign up to support Oracle team (05/27/04)
(source
: Oracle
BMW Racing)
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In preparation for the 32nd America’s Cup
in 2007 in Valencia, BMW and Oracle Racing have announced
a new campaign under the name of BMW Oracle Racing.
In 2003, the team as Oracle BMW Racing had a strong
debut as a finalist in the Louis Vuitton Cup, the
Challenger races for the America’s Cup. The renaming
to BMW Oracle Racing, effective immediately, reflects
a new team and a more significant role of BMW in the
campaign.
Under the new contract signed last month, the German
premium car brand increased its commitment by contributing
more technical know-how, marketing expertise and financial
support to the international professional sailing
team.
On the technology front, four engineers from the team
of Professor Dr. Raymond Freymann, Managing Director
BMW Group Research and Technology, will be integrated
permanently into the BMW Oracle Racing design team.
"The cooperation with BMW enables us to benefit
from technological innovations in the automobile sector",
says Team CEO Chris Dickson. "One decisive factor
in boat design, for example, is the durability of
the individual parts".
"Thanks to BMW we can assure that the full potential
of the individual boat components is tapped, while
at the same time improving the quality in terms of
robustness. The BMW engineers will perform simulation
and optimisation of the sailing yacht to a level not
employed in yacht design previously. This will result
in a yacht that is lighter, stronger and faster".
Dr. Michael Ganal, Member of the Board of Management
of BMW AG, explains the new partnership:
"Within our international sports portfolio, the
Formula 1 is a supporting pillar and BMW together
with Williams F1 make up a strong team. In both disciplines
we want to bring in particularly our specific technological
competence".
"Analogous to the name BMW Williams F1 Team,
the team made clear the more significant involvement
of BMW in the new America’s Cup campaign by renaming
the sailing team BMW Oracle Racing. At the same time
we take into account the even more professional orientation
of the America's Cup and the new organizational challenges."
For the first time, BMW Oracle Racing will present
the new team identity at the UBS Trophy in Newport,
RI, USA 19-26 June when the team competes against
America’s Cup champion Alinghi. |
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