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Evening Standard
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Matt Majendie

Ben Ainslie interview: America’s Cup tilt driven by Formula One science and pedal power

The America’s Cup is a waiting game, and on the exit of the Bay of Palma in Mallorca a 40-foot sailing boat is bobbing up and down in the water.

Any further out to sea and contact will be lost with the design team back at the Brackley headquarters of Mercedes, from which the Formula 1 team has won eight constructors’ titles and guided Lewis Hamilton to six of his drivers’ crowns.

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