Burling admitted at the later press conference things were "a little loose from where I was sitting to be honest. We . . . lost flow over both rudders. Both came out of the water and ... we put the bow in."
He paid tribute to his team, particularly the grinders, saying "the guys produced plenty of oil" to enable the boat to do great manoeuvres and grind their way back into the race.
"We did an amazing job to bounce back into the race. I don't think we would have been able to do that yesterday"
In the other two races today, Oracle beat Team France before Team BAR easily beat Artemis in a surprise result.
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