GBR Challenge beats Oracle BMW

4.20pm

The previously little fancied British GBR Challenge team achieved a famous win over software billionaire Larry Ellison's San Francisco-based Oracle team by 36sec.

The result capped two bad days for the big budget Americans and two great ones for the British, who were struggling earlier in the event.

Yesterday Oracle lost to the fancied Swiss Alinghi team while the Brits chalked up a win against the Swedish Victory Challenge.

GBR led at all but the third mark, and made a big gain on the fifth leg when a big right hand shift took them away to a lead of nearly 300 metres.

Winning margin: 00:36

- NZPA

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