Cup Spy: Interview - Ben Ainslie - INEOS Britannia - AC75 - Day 30 - Barcelona - June 22, 2024

Introduction sir benley CEO and hman on indas britania Challenger of record for the 37th Americas cup Ben could you please walk us through the day it was another nice day out here in Barcelona slightly tricky forecast we thought maybe there would be a bit more wind and then ended up we we were on our on our small area maina which in hindsight was a mistake because the breeze rather than building up it died through the early afternoon but still got some really useful sailing uh good conditions here in b recently and you know every day we be out there learning is really a win for for the team new versions of both foil Wings What are you doing today declared a couple days ago where today's and yesterday's straight lines uh aim to test the the modifications I think it's pretty hard to pick out in these kind of conditions necessarily straight line performance off off the tips but we're really just looking for what we can see in in the maneuvers you know the fall coming in and out of the water and obviously for the pilots to get feel for what they they like and there are some other nuances but yeah we would you know that's something we'd keep in house on Have you done any modifications the other hand we saw a lot of uh attention on the Jeep track have you done any any modifications to the system we had a slight modification You' have seen with the jib track fairing just you know tightening up that up a bit the guys have done a nice job we had a bit of an issue with it yesterday made they made some modifications today and it worked or be it in the lighter RS but we we still need to give it a run through in some decent Any comments about the Recon program Breeze then last day of the Recon program today any comments about it well no really just a big thank you to you and the rest of the Recon team I think it's been a great Initiative for America's Cup both for the teams in terms of keeping the cost down but also and possibly more importantly for the fan engagement certainly we've seen on our on our own team sites that we've had much more engagement thanks to you guys and I know there's certainly things that that we could do better next time around but we really appreciate it and um yeah we look forward to having to be with you later thank you very much Ben and we wish you all the best thanks