BMW Oracle Racing - Presentation

BMW ORACLE racing was brought together by the CEO and founder of ORACLE Corporation Larry Ellison in the Spring of 2000. Ellison has a long and distinguished sailing career inshore and offshore and has been a regular member of the sailing crew over the years of America’s Cup racing.

At the 2003 America’s Cup challenger series in Auckland the team, which were then known as ORACLE BMW racing, reached the finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup but were beaten by Alinghi, who went on to win the America’s Cup.

After being one of the dominant teams through the preceding America’s Cup seasons from 2004-2006, in 2007 in Valencia BMW ORACLE lost out in the semi-finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup.

On the 13th of July 2007, the team presented a formal challenge for the 33rd America’s Cup to the Société Nautique Genève. Just under two weeks later, three times America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts (NZL) was announced as the team’s CEO and skipper.

The team has a strong international flavour and mix of backgrounds from America’s Cup, match racing ocean racing and multihull racing including round the world race winning skipper John Kostecki as tactician, match racer James Spithill as helmsman.

BMW ORACLE sail under the flag of the Golden Gate Yacht Club, San Francisco.

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