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For much of their race today, Oracle looked as if they might score their first win in the America's Cup challenger series semifinals, but they let Alinghi separate, the wind changed and so did the lead.
Alinghi went on to win by 46 seconds, taking the Russell Coutts-skippered Swiss team to a 3-0 lead in their best-of-seven contest with Oracle.
The boat from San Francisco had gone into the race with a re-arranged crew, with regular helmsman Peter Holmberg left off and skipper Chris Dickson at the wheel. John Cutler joined the team's afterguard.
Early on, the move looked to backfire as Oracle came off clearly second best at the start.
Alinghi took the early lead, but halfway through the first leg Oracle, on the right hand side of the course, gained from a small windshift and slipped ahead.
The boats then sailed side by side for much of the rest of the leg to the first mark, where Oracle went around 9sec ahead.
In mostly steady north-northwesterly winds of 12 to 16 knots, Oracle held a small lead on the next three legs, but upwind for the last time they allowed Alinghi to get 700 metres to the left of them.
The wind shifted to the left and suddenly Alinghi were ahead, going round the fifth mark 17sec up.
- NZPA
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