America's Cup
The second practice race day on Wednesday in Bermuda ended in a heavy pre-start collision when Land Rover BAR collided with Emirates Team New Zealand after they had been comprehensively shut out in the last stages of the pre-start sequence.
Tauranga's Peter Burling on the helm of Emirates Team New Zealand had done a good job securing the favoured leeward end of the line and shutting out Sir Ben Ainslie and the Land Rover BAR boat.
"It was a bit of a shame in last pre-start we had the leeward end of the line pretty locked down, Ben was quite late and just ran straight into the back of us," Burling said.
"Just unnecessary a week out from the America's Cup. We are all here to learn and it's a shame we have a pretty big metre dent now in the back of our nice boat. It went straight in under the media pod with his windward bow and right down the inside of the leeward hull, so there is a pretty good dent there.