British domain continues in the Prada Cup (Photo Studio Borlenghi)

The third day of the Prada Cup and the new victory of the British team... in the first confrontation of the day INEOS Team UK continued to outdo the Italian Luna Rossa for 18 seconds... which allows the British to stand out with 4 wins, by two of the Italians and none of the Americans.

The Copa América never leaves anyone indifferent, on this occasion the protagonist has been American Magic, Terry Hutchinson's ship and patronized by Dean Barker, who when he was about to add his first point, had an accident turning the AC75 when he was already facing the final leg of the match with Luna Rossa and who seemed to give him the first point.

American Magic sailed with a 0: 25 advantage over Luna Rossa, quite comfortable to take the final leg of the match with relative tranquility. He had already mounted the last step by buoy when all of a sudden the Barker lost control of the ship, literally took off as if it were a plane, to go back to the sea without control to end up flying.

The Patriot reached the buoy at 38 knots of speed, turned but a burst of wind and the fact that they left behind the backstay of the sotavento and could not release the major candle, caused the ship to uncontrol like a barefoot horse, falling half of the crew to the sea and the other half in starboard waiting to be rescued.

Because of the strong blow, the AC75 Patriot suffered a waterway that made it even afraid that the ship could end up sinking, having to be flattened with buoys, bilge bombs and so on (capture TV broadcasts)

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INEOS Team UK by Ben Ainslie, the favorite of the bets

The second day of the Prada Cup, which served to finish the first Round Robin and start the second, made it clear that INEOS Team UK by Ben Ainslie is the great favorite to pass the ranking round at the Challenge Tournament, remains undefeated after winning Dean Barker's American Magic again.

The first confrontation of the day was between Luna Rossa by James Spihill and Francesco Bruni and American Magic. This match would untie the tie to zero points with which both teams arrived. But the Americans already had a first manual error before they started, as they crossed the exit early, so they had to be penalized by giving all the advantage to the Italians who went free and with all the advantage of the world. Barker's ship was going much slower than the Italian one by not being able to keep his foils in the air and lost more than 5 minutes, so they decided to leave the test. The American Magic pattern would recognize at the end of the day having had an important error of calculation as the ship's configuration is made according to weather conditions, they expected a rise of the wind that did not occur and so they chose a smaller bow candle, which ended up being a failure that would end up condemning them.

The second confrontation of the day, which opened the second Round Robin, was between INEOS and American Magic. Ben Ainslie's English came with high morale after two wins on the opening day and Dean Barker's Americans on the floors with a total of three defeats. In the pre-exit the Americans were already penalized by not getting to the exit drawer in time. This was added to a poor configuration recognized at the end of the day by Dean Barker, which made the American Magic back to the INEOS trailer; which, as it happened to Luna Rossa, had a platid race without a rival. In addition, the wind fell a lot in the coking between English and American, which even more damaged the seconds that would end up crossing the line of arrival at 4: 59.

On Sunday day (3 in the early Spanish hour) will continue the second Round Robin with the clashes between INEOS- Luna Rossa and American Magic Luna Rossa. In which the English will try to remain undefeated, the Italians try to approach the leader and the Americans begin to point out if they do not want to be practically ruled out by the struggle of the 36 Cup America.