Being Jimmy Spithill, Episode 2: “What I’ve seen in 25 years of Cup…”
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Jimmy Spithill sums it up this way,“If someone, 25 years ago, when I started racing in the America’s Cup, had told me that boats would become what they actually are now, I would have told him he was completely crazy.”
At the microphone of Ida Castiglioni, the helmsman of Luna Rossa in the second episode of Being Jimmy Spithill (you can find the first one HERE) tells what the evolution of the America’s Cup has meant, from his point of view as a helmsman, from when he was 19 years old si Young Australia, to the last edition in Barcelona, which ended with the defeat in the Louis Vuitton Cup final.“A fundamental change,” says Jimmy
– has been the advent of simulators: now we can try and try again and again an infinite number of situations. At the start, at the buoy, in any situation. It used to be that every experience was the result of going out on the water “.
Jimmy Spithill, who has officially declared that he will no longer participate as an athlete in the America’s Cup, later told Ida Castiglioni: “Now it is time to give way to young helmsmen and coxswains who know these technologies, who know how to use them. I was lucky because I got to race and live with wonderful people: owners, designers, builders, and of course sailors not only for one Team, my country’s team, but also for the Italian team and the U.S. team, as well as the Australian team “.
The episodes of Being Jimmy Spithill, total five; the third is coming next week.
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