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Brad Butterworth: Four-time America's Cup winner on whether Luna Rossa can come back

Published: March 16, 2021, 8:16 p.m.

There are rumours the next America's Cup could be defended in the Northern Hemisphere.
Emirates Team New Zealand are one race away from victory, after winning race nine against Luna Rossa yesterday afternoon.
But it’s understood INEOS Team UK owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the defender boss Grant Dalton have been in negotiations to hold a one-off defence on the Isle of Wight next year.
Four-time America's Cup winner Brad Butterworth confirmed to Mike Hosking he'd heard those claims.
"There's some bizarre stuff going on. The ball's always bouncing in the America's Cup. They are talking about Ineos, I guess would be funding the whole thing. Both teams would go to the Isle of Wight and do an America's Cup like it was 200 years ago."
Butterworth says it'll be a case of history repeating itself if the race goes back to the UK.  
He says Ineos might be in a position to fund the event, and it would take place at the Isle of Wright just like it did two centuries ago.
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