Budgets are thought to be about $7 million (£5.5 million) per team per season.“I think our arrival helps to show there is a commercially sustainable model out there for SailGP,” Ainslie said. We took the boat, Opalong down to the beach and launched it. In the summer of 2013, he went on to join ORACLE TEAM USA on-board for their defence of the 34th Cup, helping the American team win the event, becoming the first Briton, for 110 years, to be part of a winning Cup team.A few months later, the British team set about securing the funding to get the Challenge of the ground. Ainslie learned to sail at Restronguet Creek near Falmouth, Cornwall. Read our community guidelines in full Follow INEOS TEAM UK, the British Challenger for the 36th America's Cup. The local club was Restronguet Sailing Club, a modest single-storey affair with grassy terraces that led down to a shingle beach. De Savary’s new Blue Arrow team had their base in Falmouth, and they were out sailing ahead of their next challenge. “As a new team, we were playing a game of catch up all the way through the campaign and it was a steep learning curve. OTUSA won eight straight races to defend and hold the 34th America’s Cup.The sense that this had created a unique opportunity was very powerful. Starting the 70-day tour of the United Kingdom at At the beginning of 2005 Ainslie worked in the role of Ainslie figureheaded a British challenge for the Cup alongside In January 2012, Ben Ainslie announced the formation of an eponymous team to compete in the America's Cup: Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR). See you at the pub.”It’s no surprise that having survived that test on some innate ability alone, Ben progressed quickly. Ainslie was the hottest property in professional sailing. It was an old school, family club with a strong tradition in breeding sailing champions. Le design Getty Images est une marque de Getty Images.Trop d’images sélectionnées. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Ainslie’s single-minded determination to win the America’s Cup for Britain saw him set up Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) in 2014, based in Portsmouth. Although we didn't achieve our ultimate goal of winning the America's Cup there were many highlights from the campaign, including moving into our Portsmouth HQ, building and launching our test and race boats, winning the Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series, bringing together a great team of supportive partners, the Academy's success in the Red Bull Youth America's Cup and finally launching our Official Charity, the 1851 Trust.”In 2018, Ben was introduced to Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the Founder and Chairman of INEOS through a mutual friend and a new British Challenger, INEOS TEAM UK, was launched to campaign for the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland, in 2021. Official site of Sir Ben Ainslie, the most successful Olympic sailor of all time. I’d never seen a boat that small before, but they explained it was for kids up to the age of 15, and I was to sail it on my own. The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes Ben Ainslie signed as skipper and a strong team gathered around him only for the whole operation to be derailed by the Cup’s hiatus in the New York courts, the 2010 Deed of Gift match and the subsequent change to huge multihulls for the 34th America’s Cup. {{collectionsDisplayName(searchView.appliedFilters)}}© 2020 Getty Images. The dream to win the America’s Cup needed a bit more of a nudge. Find out more One of them was owned by entrepreneur Peter de Savary — who had run an impressive first campaign for the 25th America’s Cup in 1983. The score dropped to 8-1 before the comeback to end all comebacks began. Ben retained his role as Team Principal and Skipper. He had many options within the sport and could name his price, but he took on the immense challenge of starting his own America’s Cup team to campaign for the 35th America’s Cup.Ben Ainslie began sailing because it was in the family; his father, Roddy Ainslie had skippered a boat in the first ever, crewed round the world race in 1972.