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The recent media announcement and accompanying video by Team New Zealand that their design and build teams are constructing a wheeled, wing-driven vehicle to challenge the world sailing land speed record has provoked immediate responses from the other America’s Cup syndicates.
A spokesman for INEOS, the Challenger of Record for AC37, was far from impressed. “It looks to us like the Kiwis have been sitting around twiddling their thumbs”, he said. “They’ve now dreamed this up to spend some leftover government grant money while waiting for sponsorship and a decision on a venue for 2024. We’re way ahead of them on our own side project.
“We call it the ‘Four Fs’ for short. It stands for Future Full-Foil Fracking. We’ve taken the advanced foiling technology from the America’s Cup and adapted it for energy mining applications. Early indications are that the foils destroy natural geology at a wonderful rate. The marketing people have already come up with a nifty slogan: ‘Cutting edge for cutting rock’. Sir James is delighted.”
Not to be outdone, the innovators at the Prada Luna Rossa syndicate have also been working on an exciting project that exploits the enhanced levels of expertise they developed during their 2021 America’s Cup campaign. Details are still sketchy (and protected by patent applications) but it seems certain the breakthrough is related to the production of certain forms of pasta…
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