It’s the oldest sporting trophy in the world, but Britain has never won it. Now Sir Ben Ainslie’s Portsmouth-based team is at work on a ‘Batman boat’ they hope will achieve that feat
Sir Ben Ainslie is making waves once again. This weekend his Land Rover BAR crew (BAR stands for Ben Ainslie Racing) becomes the first British team to contest an official America’s Cup World Series competition in front of a home crowd since 1851.
Half a million people are expected to descend on Portsmouth this weekend and millions more will be watching on TV around the world. Ainslie’s extraordinary achievements in the 2012 London Olympics have helped Britain rediscover its love of sailing and allowed a nation to dream an impossible dream: that the America’s Cup, the oldest major sporting trophy in the world, can be brought to these shores for the first time.
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