HAMILTON, Bermuda Jimmy Spithill isnt afraid of a fight.
"It's pretty obvious these guys are faster and we need to make some serious changes", Jimmy Spithill, Oracle Team USA's skipper said at a post-race news conference.
In a word - No.
It was little consolation that the four wins gave New Zealand only a 3-0 lead in the first-to-seven points series - thanks to Team USA's bonus for topping the standings in the qualifying round-robin.
Helmsman Peter Burling, 26, took the lead in the fourth race and extended it, as he had in the previous race.
Neither the win nor the cup came.
Team NZ skipper Glenn Ashby said while the crew would like be back in the water tomorrow keeping the momentum up, they had targeted these next five days in the schedule for upgrades to the boat and finetuning work.
Now, the teams will renew hostilities with the oldest trophy in global sport on the line once again.
The rest is cup history.
Fellow Aussie John Bertrand, who beat Dennis Conner in 1983 to end the New York Yacht Club's 132-year America's Cup winning streak, said Spithill "is confident in that space".
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Oracle entered the Cup final following a fortnight of clear time to develop and improve its boat, including training sessions with its sister outfit, Softbank Team Japan.
In Oracle's case, cup watchers wonder whether giant leaps forward are realistic.
"Good boat speed and good manoeuvres, it's turning out quite nicely for us".
That's a big enough deficit against a New Zealand catamaran that has consistently out-performed Oracle. It really inspires us to keep pushing on..
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The real San Francisco moment was the one when you realised that nothing was inevitable, and here it's no different.
"We've known all along that to win the America's Cup we had to win eight races and so to get two wins on the board already is fantastic". "We were far from our best today".
"We feel like were far from ideal today, and we've got a lot to improve on in the next few days". Oracle needs to win seven to keep the silver trophy in the hands of one of the worlds richest men, software tycoon Larry Ellison, who has been watching the shellacking from a team support boat. When the television-driven, stop-start regatta resumes next weekend it'll run daily until a victor emerges.
"We know if we stand still, they'll catch us".
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