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5:44pm - Next racing is scheduled for Wednesday and unless the British can find something in the shed, this series could be over on Friday.
Join us on Wednesday for more live updates of this Prada Cup final.
Prada Cup Final, Race 4
INEOS Team UK v Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli
Luna Rossa win by 41s, lead series 4-0
Finish - Spithill and Bruni continue to dominate this final, building a 4-0 lead that could be unassailable.
Ainslie and Team UK limp home 41 seconds back, utterly beaten. They need to find something dramatic to avoid a whitewash.
Stuff Sports
12 February, 2021, 5:30 pm
Luna Rossa skipper Max Sirena and Team UK skipper Ben Ainslie before the America s Cup Challenger Selection Series finals. Photo: Studio Borlenghi.
Two proud sporting nations are ready to add another chapter to a storied rivalry when the America’s Cup Challenger Selection Series finals start on Saturday.
It’s Italy versus Britain in a showdown that has not been seen before in sailing. The match-up between Luna Rossa and Team UK on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour is the first time two ‘European’ nations have gone head-to-head in the last chance finals series.
The winner of this series will take on Team New Zealand for the oldest trophy in sport – and the Italians have a point to prove after losing to the British three times this year.
Christmas wasn’t a happy one for Ben Ainslie and his Ineos Team UK. They are in Auckland, New Zealand, trying to win the America’s Cup, the oldest trophy in world sport, taken from British waters under Queen Victoria’s nose in 1851 and never won back. But in the preliminary America’s Cup World Series, Ineos Team UK was embarrassingly off the pace. They lost to the Americans, failed to even finish against the Italians and lost to the Kiwis. Then.