The only people who reliably win in any given America’s Cup cycle are lawyers. David Fuller
Ratcliffe sues Ainslie over £180m America’s Cup boat
Best reporting: Telegraph.co.uk
The short version: Ineos spent £350m backing Ben Ainslie’s sailing team across two America’s Cup campaigns, apparently without securing ownership of anything. Now Ainslie’s team is using the boat Ratcliffe paid for to prepare for the next Cup, and Ratcliffe is suing to get it back. Legal opinions suggest he will probably lose.
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The Ocean Race 2027 adds St. Pete-Clearwater Stopover and new Transatlantic leg to Cascais
TL;DR: The Ocean Race has confirmed a new transatlantic leg for the 2027 edition, departing St. Pete-Clearwater, Florida and finishing in Cascais, Portugal. This is a host city commercial announcement. The meaningful signal is that the race is expanding its American footprint to the Gulf Coast and locking in two new municipal/tourism board funding relationships.
The US is the unlock for all sport. F1 did it. Football (Soccer) is trying to do it. It’s a big audience. Audience matters for events that are funded by sponsorship. If your sponsor’s customers – B2B or B2C – are not where your sport goes, then you aren’t going to get the money.
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