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That's the brutal reality of it." eyes issues for Tim Jeffery IN AUCKLAND phreys, Akihiro Kanai, Hugh Welbourn and Taro Takahashi are the design team members now in Auckland. "We are actually, feeling reasonably comfortable with what we've Richards of the GBR Challenge's two, yachts GBR 70 White Lighting, which will race in round robin one, and GBR 78 White Magic, whose role is less clear. Though the nine challengers and the Team New Zealand defenders shroud their hulls in elaborate skirts, apart from France's Defi Areva and Team Dennis Conner, there are persistent rumours that GBR 78 is one of several boats with something more radical than a conventional fin bulb and aft rudder. Mast position or mast rake is often a good hint at a fundamentally different set of appendages because it trims the boat differently. It also means an entirely new set of problems to solve in terms of steering balance.

GBR 78 remains ashore at present, the question as to whether the boat will be used later in the trials unanswered. in hull but is believed, conventional appendages, GBR 70 typifies the class of 2002. The yacht has the same knuckle bow, which tricks the class rule into thinking the hull is shorter than it is, as deployed on Team New Zealand's 2000 cup winner NZL 60, and the Challengers' schedule LOUIS VUITTON CUP 1st round robin Day 1 (Oct 1) GBR 70 (I Walker) Stars 66 (K Read); Mascalzone 72 (V Onorato) 76 (P Gilmour); 64 (R Coutts) Le defi 69 (L Pillot); 74 (F de Angelis) Oracle 76 (P Holmberg). Bye: Victory 63 (J. Bank).

Day 2 Stars Stripes Prada; OneWorld Alinghi; Oracle BMW Mascalzone Latino; Victory Challenge Le defi -Areva. Bye: GBR Challenge. Day 3 OneWorld GBR Challenge; Victory Challenge Stars Stripes; Mascalzone Latino Alinghi; Le defi Areva Prada. Bye: Oracle BMW. Day 4 Mascalzone Latino Victory Challenge; Prada Alinghi; Le defi Areva GBR Challenge; Stars Stripes Oracle BMW.

Bye: OneWorld. Motor Racing long, tapering stern, The objective of both is to make boat pick up length and consequently speed as she sails. "We didn't be an heels over, sits down, and extreme end of the game," said Richards. In terms of dimensions, GBR 70 seems to closest to Switzerland's first Alinghi boat, SUI 64, which has impressed in the informal racing of the past three weeks and helped install the powerful new team of Russell Coutts, two-time America's Cup winner, as challenger favourite. "Which from our point of view is said Richards, "because they're not idiots." These are the only British boats designed and built to the class rules used since 1992.

That is two out of 82, a measure of the catch-up the GBR Challenge has had to achieve, Rob Humphreys said the designers appreciated the amount of money spent on tank testing and computer modelling. "I would give nine out of 10 or 10 out of 10 for the resources that Peter Harrison's made available. We can't really hide behind an excuse like that." Clark's aim is for GBR to be fast enough to make the fourboat semi-finals. "For us to bes competitive I want other teams to say 'we're going to. have to race these guys in order the beat them', If all the other challengers think that, then we have done a damn fine MistThe nine challengers will sail against each other once in each of two spanning a month.

Every win is worth one point, and the top eight teams will progress to the quarter-finals. The winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup will take on holders Team New Zealand in the 31st America's Cup match from Feb 15. Day 5 Alinghi GBR Challenge; Stars Stripes OneWorld; Oracle BMW Victory Challenge; Prada Mascalzone Latino. Bye: Le defi Areva. Day 6 Le defi Areva Stars Stripes; Oracle BMW OneWorld; Victory Challenge Prada; GBR Challenge Mascaizone Latino.

Bye: Alinghi. Day 7 OneWorld Victory Challenge; GBR Challenge Prada; Alinghi Stars Stripes; Le defi Areva Oracle BMW. Bye: Mascalzone Latino. Day 8 Stars Stripes Mascalzone Latino; Oracle BMW Alinghi; OneWorld Le defi Areva; Victory Challenge GBR Challenge. Bye: Prada.

Day 9 GBR Challenge Oracle BMW; Alinghi Victory Challenge; Prada OneWorld; Mascalzone Latino Le defi Areva. Bye: Stars Stripes. Ferrari's tactics defended by Todt By Timothy Collings FERRARI'S sporting director, Jean Todt, moved swiftly to defend his team and Michael Schumacher yesterday in the wake of the world champion's flawed and controversial attempt to fix the outcome of Sunday's United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis. Todt had to answer a claim from the respected technical director Patrick Head, of the Williams team, that Ferrari's attempted manipulation of the result signalled that they believed they were more important than the sport. Ron Dennis, of McLaren, accused Ferrari of "trivialising" Formula One for their own ends.

The criticisms revealed the mood in the paddock after Schumacher had slowed to try to create a dead heat, but instead handed victory to his Rubens Barrichello by just 0.01sec or seven centimetres at the end of the 190-mile race. The outcome echoed the furore created by Ferrari at the Austrian Grand Prix in May, when Barrichello was ordered to ease off and allow Schumacher, then chasing the world title, a hollow victory, "It was not team orders this time," Todt said. "There was no need for team orders. The only thing that was said was that, after the second pit stop, they should I not fight any more. there was no more fighting.

"Michael could have won, but he wanted to have Rubens very close to him, about which we were very happy, because, you know, we love Michael, we love Rubens, but we work for And that's the only thing that really does matter for us. "I think it would be very presumptuous, and not humble at all, to say that we are controlling everything. We are not controlling everything, We try to do our best, but we don't want drivers to fight against each other if it is not in the interests of the company. "We are in a sport where we have commercial interests and, if we ignore that, it could have long repercussions, We just feel that the interest of the team, of our commercial partners, sponsors and technical partners, is to win races. You know you must respect everybody's Head had said that! the manner which Schumacher.

had slowed to "fix" the result reflected "the fact that the senior people at Ferrari think Ferrari is more important than motor racing, and they think that finishing races that way reflects better on Dennis added: "I don't really want to be drawn into the debate, but it's not how we go about motor racing, I don't think you should ever trivialise what is a very challenging sport.".