Before the start, we can saw that Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli had an incident with their main sail, one of the carbon fibre batons which support the twin-skinned race sails had poked through the sail.
It is not possible to race in that state.
At 2:43pm they are dropping the sail to swap this baton out – they cannot race like this so they are being practical and doing to the fix now. They may need to take a delay card – but maybe the high winds (while creating the issue) may also give the possibility to swap out the sail before the delayed start.
At 2:50pm local time the race is announced to start – winds are now within the limits.
Luna Rossa are immediately DISQUALIFIED as their support team are onboard the boat after the race is due to start, successfully passing the 5 minute warning.
INEOS Britannia take the win, by Italy disqualification.
The Score is now:
– 2 WINS to INEOS
– 1 WIN to Luina Rossa
The Italians are frantically performing a full mainsail swap before the second race of the day.
