"We were pretty fired up and disappointed with the first one, we had a great race with Team New Zealand but it just sort of slipped through our fingers," he said.
"It was a real sign of strength I thought from the guys to be able to bounce back from a situation like that having lost three in a row."
"Going into the break tomorrow it's a real confidence booster from the boys."
After looking impressive upwind in yesterday's opening races, Team New Zealand's upwind advantage over Oracle Team USA was further underlined in race three, after they pulled off a thrilling come-from-behind victory. Trailing by 18 seconds at the bottom mark, the Kiwis won produced a masterclass of upwind sailing, showing better boatspeed, crew-work and tactics to reel in the Oracle boat and take a 29 second lead at mark three leaving the defenders with too much ground to make up over the final run.
Team NZ were unable to get themselves out of jail in the fourth race though, with a poor start ultimately costing them. Spithill did an impressive job with his time-on-distance hitting the start-line at speed in full foiling mode, while Barker looked slightly late.
The Kiwi crew battled hard to get themselves back in the race, but did not look as comfortable in the windier conditions later in the day, struggling to keep the boat stable on a couple of occasions. Team NZ skipper Dean Barker said while he was disappointed with some of the errors the team made, he hopes the loss will keep them sharp.
"We could have done things a lot better than we could and the things that we take out of the second race was that by our standards we sailed a pretty average race, and we were still pretty close at the end," he said.
"We're still pretty happy with the way the boats are going, we just need to eliminate those little mistakes."
Racing resumes on Wednesday with two further races scheduled.
Team New Zealand need six more wins to claim the America's Cup, while Oracle need to win 10.