With Peter Burling on the helm Luna Rossa is the team to beat as the final America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta hits the water on the Bay of Naples this weekend.<\/p>\n
“That’s the million dollar question, right? How do you beat Pete Burling,” Team New Zealand skipper Nathan Outteridge said on the eve of the regatta.<\/p>\n
Outteridge said they weren’t looking too far ahead.<\/p>\n
“I think for this event the first thing that I do is make it into the final. It’s very easy to make assumptions that it’ll be a New Zealand-Luna Rossa final and we’ll be the two drivers in there, but the reality is that there’s a great fleet here.”<\/p>\n
In the final in Sardinia the New Zealanders were penalised for being over the start line early and they never recovered.<\/p>\n
“You’ve got to keep focused on yourself and just keep improving your processes and how we operate as a team and if the opportunity comes again to have another rematch, that’d be amazing,” Outteridge said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve worked a lot on our match racing pre-starts to make sure we know strong ways to start these boats.<\/p>\n
“So we feel like we’re a bit better prepared now for a match race.”<\/p>\n
Outteridge would be happy if Luna Rossa had a good regatta.<\/p>\n
“Our goal is to be in the final. If Pete’s there and the Luna Rossa team’s there, that’d be amazing. And it’d be cool to have a rematch.”<\/p>\n
There are 10 boats from seven teams taking part in Naples this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Peter Burling on the helm Luna Rossa is the team to beat as the final America’s Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-609835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}