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Montello
I think the ability to delay is sensible given how high tech the whole set up is.
No one wants to watch dud matches due to tech failure.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Montello
I think the ability to delay is sensible given how high tech the whole set up is.
No one wants to watch dud matches due to tech failure.
It may be up for discussion but it was introduced as a trial after LR suffered the loss of their data feed (link):
...The regatta director Iain Murray said a team which believed it had not received from the race officials, digital data including course boundaries, could call a 15-minute delay.
The idea will be trialled during today’s resumption of the Prada Cup round robin series, which today will be sailed on the “stadium” course C, in moderate south-westerly winds upwards of 12 knots at 4pm.
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Murray did not believe that any difficulties Luna Rossa might have had with race data last Sunday were the fault of the event’s Race Management System (RMS).
But he said he did not have the ability during the pre-start countdown, to adjudicate whether a team's data problems were its own issue, or lay with data relayed by race officials...
By that account Ineos used the delay for something that it was not intended to cover, ie a boat fault. A lot will depend upon which, if any, teams continue to support the idea and for which purposes. I'd imagine that the negotiations are pretty intense. Indeed, by that reading Luna Rossa may feel that they lost out and Ineos will look on it as good fortune / tactics.