Some interesting statistical info just came out from the Media Centre:
- There have been 127 races sailed to date in the Louis Vuitton Cup
- Maximum delta: 11.49 minutes China Team vs Victory Challenge (May 2)
- Minimum winning delta: 1 second Desafío Español 2007 defeat +39 Challenge (April 30)
1 818 740 visitors to Port America’s Cup for the 2007 season (since April 1)
- 1 700 hours broadcast in 2007 (up to April 30) in over 150 countries that receive images of the 32nd America’s Cup
- Audience of 928 million people in 2007 (up to April 30)
- up to 33 cameras are in use at any one time during racing
- over 540 people are on-site, employed by rights-holders
- over 130 ACTV production people
- 400 hours of production of live TV in 3 galleries
6 000 bottles of Moët & Chandon consumed in Port America’s Cup 
But the most important number at the America’s Cup remains ‘one’.
There is one winner in each match and each series.
Only one team will win the Louis Vuitton Cup and go on to race Alinghi in the 32nd America’s Cup Match.
This is the America’s Cup and there is no second… anyone excited?
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YEAH! Just a little!!! Ha, ha. Looks like a few of those 6,000 bottles of French bubbly may have found their way across to you, Peter.
Hopefully, there will be a real good excuse to crack open a couple more when ETNZ do the business over LR! Here hoping with fingers crossed and champagne glass at the ready. Cheers, David G
Hey, who is Paul Lester?
Anyway…
The reason why I follow the America’s Cup since 1995 is because I love sailing and secondly because NZ has been doing pretty well since then. But the sailing is the issue here. I hope the AC doesn’t become just a corporate event every three years where “numbers” is the most important topic. From pretty much the end of the 80’s up until the last Cup in 2003 the winner has always been the best package of amazingly talented sailors plus a good management leader (well, pretty good lawyers in the eighties somtimes). And if all continues this way ETNZ will win this AC2007. If ETNZ wins the cup the spirit of the cup will not be tainted (boats representing countries head to head in match racing). Well, this is what I naively hope for.
haha – I’m version 2.0 – I’ll be adding to the blog once I get to Valencia on the 19th!
Lucky you Paul!
Enjoy and I guess you’ll be helping ver 1.0 with all that Moet drinking. Please bring a few bottles for the plebs and one particular ‘cup’ we are after.
enjoying the coverage on Sky Sports in the UK. keep it up.