Coutts vs Bertarelli
Le ton est donné: (Source Adonnante.com)
"Pour moi, ce fut une grande surprise de ne pas le voir monter à bord d'Alinghi. Je l'ai employé pour barrer le bateau : si Coutts ne veux pas venir faire son job, nous avons un gros problème "
Bertarelli indique aussi qu'il résistera à toutes les tentatives menées par Coutts pour rejoindre un autre défi. "A partir de maintenant, je dois protéger le Team plus que tout" rajoute-t-il. "Je ne souhaite pas me retrouver dans la situation du Team New Zealand en 2000 (alors que Bertarelli avait débauché Russell Coutts à grand renfort de dollars). Franchement, et heureusement, je pense avoir mieux rédigé mes contrats que le Team New Zealand de l'époque."
Le choix porté par Bertarelli sur Valence pour accueillir la Coupe en 2007 est cité comme l'un des exemples de l'influence réduite de Coutts sur le projet. Le choix de Coutts s’était porté sur Lisbonne. "Il a contribué aux sélections des villes susceptibles d'accueillir la Coupe, mais la décision finale m'appartenait. Nous ne pouvons échanger nos rôles" termine Bertarelli.
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Le jour ou l'homme a decouvert le lait, que cherchait-il exactement a faire a la vache ?
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Ca permettrait aussi de voir si le potentiel des bateaux est juste rattaché au skipper où si l'ensemble de la bête est importante. Et si on pouvait avoir une équipe plus ou moins suisse, ca me dérangerait même pas de perdre...
Mieux vaut une fille au pair qu'un homme à la mer... (pfff)
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Et si on pouvait avoir une équipe plus ou moins suisse, ca me dérangerait même pas de perdre...
Quand je pense qu'on parle du foot sur le BZP (BFP ?)... ou la manipulation de l'information
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Bruits de secession sur l'America's Cup (02/07/04)
Après que Bruno Peyron ait vu cet hiver l'Oryx Cup copier le concept de The Race, ce pourrait être au tour de l'America's Cup de voir se profiler un évènement directement concurrent.
Selon des rumeurs de plus en plus précises, le néo-zélandais Russell Coutts et son vieil adversaire américain Paul Cayard auraient en effet uni leurs forces pour proposer une compétition internationale dont l'objectif affiché serait de concurrencer la Coupe.
Selon The Australian, cette régate sur laquelle les deux hommes travaillent depuis plusieurs mois mettrait aux prises des bateaux d'un format similaire à celui des Class America (autour de 24 mètres de long), mais sur des bases radicalement différentes.
L'idée serait de faire s'affronter les meilleurs skippers sur des bateaux similaires, en quittant une jauge que beaucoup considèrent comme dépassée. Une orientation qui permettrait tout à la fois d'abaisser les coûts de la compétition et d'offrir des duels plus télévisuels.
Il se dit que plusieurs sponsors sont d'ores et déjà prêts à investir dans cet évènement et il faut se rappeler que Russell Coutts et Paul Cayard avaient tourné ensemble dans les Etats du Golfe il y a quelques semaines.
D'après le journal australien, une annonce pourrait être faite dans les quinze prochains jours.
Info ou intox ???
"Semblable à un prêtre à qui on arracherait sa divinité, je ne pouvais (...) me détacher de cette mer si monstrueusement séduisante..." Baudelaire, Déjà !, Le Spleen de Paris.
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New Zealander Russell Coutts and American Paul Cayard are believed to be close to finalising details for the creation of an international sailing event aimed at attracting the world's best sailors and a massive television audience.
The proposal is for the establishment of a fleet of extreme high-performance yachts built to an identical design that will compete for a major prize.
If plans continue on their current course, the announcement of the event could come within the next two weeks. However, although both men have left no doubt that something is developing behind the scenes, they are keeping mum on details.
News of their project comes at a time when Coutts, the best America's Cup helmsman of all time, is locked in a bitter mediation process with the management of the Swiss America's Cup team, whose yacht Alinghi he steered to victory over the New Zealand defender last year.
Coutts is not enjoying his role in the new Alinghi Cup defence organisation, and he doesn't like the choice of Valencia as the venue for 2007 over his preferred option, Lisbon, nor does he think the style of yacht chosen is exciting enough.
The width of the rift within Alinghi became apparent in Newport two weeks ago when Coutts advised syndicate head, Swiss biotech billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli, that he would not steer the yacht in an America's Cup style preview regatta against Larry Ellison's 2007 BMW Oracle challenge syndicate. Coutts, an Olympic gold medallist, was lured to Alinghi after he steered Team New Zealand to victory in the Cup defence in 2000.
He was labelled a traitor in New Zealand but was recognised elsewhere as the greatest helmsman in the Cup's 152-year history when he guided Alinghi to a crushing win over Team New Zealand. That result took the cup match to Europe for the first time.
But trouble was brewing in the Alinghi camp within months of their success. Bertarelli decided to split the defence organisation, putting his long-time business associate Michel Bonnefous in charge of America's Cup management while leaving Coutts in the role of managing the sailing team and little else.
That wasn't what Coutts expected, and when his thoughts on the venue or style of boat for the next event went nowhere he was left started to think about his future. Cayard found himself in a similar predicament to his friend Coutts within Ellison's San Francisco-based syndicate before the 2000 America's Cup. Cayard was an ill-fitting piece of the syndicate jigsaw and finished up on the outer. Now the two are set to unite around the new event.
The event the pair is formulating involves fleet racing one-design yachts similar in length to the existing America's Cup yachts, about 24m (80ft). But that's where the similarity will end. The new boats will move into the next generation of performance sailing.
It is proposed that they will be created along the lines of the radical and extremely fast monohulls that race on Italy's Lake Garda. They are planned for a crew of only 10 or 12 with a significant number suspended over the side from trapeze systems to enhance stability. In being identical one-designs, the cost of entry to this competition will be considerably less than the $100million-plus required to enter the America's Cup. And with all the hulls being the same, the racing promises to be close and exciting.
"Sailors and spectators are starting to get bored with match racing like you see in the America's Cup," one insider to the Cayard-Coutts plan said. "Usually it's a case of follow the leader after one boat wins the start. The result is almost always inevitable from the outset. This competition will be very different, and far more exciting."
The America's Cup match in Fremantle in 1987 proved that strong winds make for exciting racing and great television, so it is almost inevitable the initial rounds of this event will be based in centres known for windy conditions. That was one of the reasons Coutts favoured Lisbon over Valencia for the 2007 America's Cup; more wind equals more excitement for everyone involved or watching.
Already some cities are on the inside running for this new event and are formulating bids to act as host city.
It is understood that the initial backer for Coutts and Cayard is New York-based, but it's likely the money to launch it will come from the Middle East. Financiers in both Bahrain and Dubai have been eagerly courting the pair.
After Cayard won the trials to represent America in the Star class at the Athens Olympics, he and Coutts flew to Dubai for a meeting with potential backers. It's understood that Coutts couldn't attend the meeting once there because he was being hounded by media.
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