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Speaker 1: Sail GP. Interesting weekend black foils crashed of course with

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Speaker 1: France the grind Lewis Sinclair had surgery for broken legs.

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Speaker 1: They split the feet the fleet yesterday. Anyway, Mark Rams

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Speaker 1: is the aut sailing professor and as with us, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: What'd you make of the weekend? Was it one of

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Speaker 1: those things the crash, the injury. Is it one of

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Speaker 1: those things or not?

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Speaker 2: I think it's more than one of those things, Mike.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I think a good analogy and a sailing

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Speaker 2: friend of mineset is that it feels a little bit

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Speaker 2: like the early days of Formula one, where you know,

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Speaker 2: they really hadn't got on top of the safety and

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Speaker 2: there were increasing injuries and fatalities. And now we're in

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Speaker 2: a stage I think with sale GP where they've got

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Speaker 2: so many competitors, they're trying to bring it right close

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Speaker 2: to the shore for the fans and starting to see

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Speaker 2: some indications that they need to take some action to

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Speaker 2: just bring the safety aspect and crank that up a bit.

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Speaker 1: Will technology eventually fix that like F one? Will you

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Speaker 1: be having more agile boats or do they need to

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Speaker 1: change the rules.

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Speaker 2: I think it's probably a bit of both. Certainly there

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Speaker 2: are some additional technology for safety, they've already brought some in,

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Speaker 2: but there are a couple of other things that you

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Speaker 2: can't control within sailing. Of course, you know you're flying

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Speaker 2: around at speeds that you drive on the motorway without

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Speaker 2: any brakes, without the ability to really control your accelerator

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Speaker 2: as well, because that comes from the wind. So when

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Speaker 2: you put it really close to the shore with only

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Speaker 2: meters to a pretty hard stop against the rocks and

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Speaker 2: thirteen boats going at that sort of speed in close proximity,

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Speaker 2: it just takes one mistake or something unexpected to happen,

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Speaker 2: and you can end up with a pile up, and

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Speaker 2: you can end up with some pretty serious injuries, and

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Speaker 2: there is a risk of fatality. So they really do

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Speaker 2: need to look at this carefully and make some changes.

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Speaker 1: Is the split the field the answer for now?

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Speaker 2: I think that's a major step forward. I was really

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Speaker 2: pleased to see them make that call on Sunday. From

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Speaker 2: my point of view, it doesn't detract from the event

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Speaker 2: and the spectator. In fact, arguably it might add to it.

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Speaker 2: There was no break between racing when they split them,

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Speaker 2: because you'd finished one. You hadn't even got enough time

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Speaker 2: to go off and get a drink and you're into

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Speaker 2: the next heat, you know. So it just creates more

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Speaker 2: space so that if something does go wrong, you've got

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Speaker 2: less opportunity or less risk of somebody following close to

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Speaker 2: end up just crashing into the boat in front, like

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Speaker 2: the French did with the Kiwis on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Mark Mark Ooram's Out of Auto This Morning.

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