Mark Orams on Team New Zealand's win: 'She looks like a rocket ship'

Team New Zealand have advanced to the challenger final series. Photo / Ricardo Pinto

That was solid from Emirates Team New Zealand.

It was a great pre-start in the third race of the morning - they finally won one!

They got their speed mojo back, their tacks were beautiful and they obviously sorted the issues they had with their foil control from the second race today.

Their speed is impressive, when they get Aotearoa wound up, she looks like a rocket ship.

Smooth and in the groove, fast upwind and downwind and stable through the turns.

A fantastic bounce back from the shock of the pitch-pole two days ago.

The entire team came together and got things sorted to put in an awesome performance today.

Emirates Team NZ is now going to stay out and do some more practice - even after a three-race day!

That shows good signs of determination and that they have the bigger picture in mind.

Strong winds are forecast for tomorrow, so it may be better to get some more testing done today and then have a well earned day off tomorrow.

The team will be tired after pulling some "all-nighters" to get Aotearoa back together.

Congratulations to the entire team - now onwards!

Land Rover Team BAR did all they could with a boat that was off the pace. It's so hard to stay in the fight when you are slow.

They had adversity and they kept fighting, they will be back next time and they will learn and improve.

They have huge talent, but they just did not get the design right to have an all-round competitive package.

They were competitive in 11-13 knots of wind-speed but that was it - not enough in a long regatta where you are going to be tested in a range of conditions.

They were dog slow in under 10 knots of wind speed and not great in the 15-20 knot wind speed range.