Yeah, the first third of the downwind leg was painful to watch as A carved up hard to power up, then drive down a bit, carry then splash, then repeat. Combo of things leading to that, IMO, but it sure didn't look good for the helm...
Jimmy said they had a big puff which they where able to carry a long way down the course. I just watched a replay of Eurosport and you can see that BMWO was also making quite a lot of course changes, at one point I see them bearing away something like 45 degrees. Shifty conditions are never easy to sail in and I wonder what happened if you would sail 10 races, what the outcome would be.
