Grant Dalton’s Nervousness
At the Yanmar (Official AC Marine Sponsor) Press Conference in Barcelona last week, Grant Dalton, the America’s Cup CEO and manager for Emirates Team New Zealand, spoke about his somewhat surprising pre-match nerves…
‘In Jim Radcliffe and Ben Ainslie we have amazing people. If we, as Emirates Team New Zealand, had been able to pick our dream final, for lots of reasons, a year ago this would have been the dream final – I think as much as anything because of the relationship we have with that team, with every other team it isn’t friendly, but with this team it is. But also because of the history. I think about the All Blacks playing England, and that great rivalry really.’
‘There’s a sense that maybe Luna Rosacould have been a better story in that 500,000 Italians would have descended on Barcelona, but I think the historical story… is a better story. …