Alinghi's chief Mr Ernesto Bertarelli (who, congrats due, finished sixth in the super-competive 38-boat fleet at last week's Farr 40 Worlds in Newport) has given an interview to the Associated Press which ran in yesterday's International Herald Tribune, among many other papers around the world. Ernesto commented on several of the challengers, including BMWOR....

Bertarelli cited BMW Oracle, Luna Rosa and Emirates Team New Zealand as the best of the challengers.

BMW Oracle "are working with the ambition of winning the America's Cup," he said. "They are a well-financed, well-managed team. I think they are going to be tough."

He said Luna Rosa "have a much better boat than last time" and he warned that New Zealand "continues to be a nation of sailors which is very innovative. They are going to be strong as well."

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