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BMW Oracle Racing Announces Design Team

By Rob Grant | May 9, 2008 | Valencia, Spain |
BMW Oracle Racing’s design team of Vincent Lauriot Prevost, Marc van Peteghem, Mike Drummond and Mick Kermerac sit for a photo with boss Russell Coutts.

© 2008 Gilles Martin-Raget / BMW Oracle Racing

Over the weekend, BMW Oracle Racing announced its design team for the AC33. Unsurprisingly, it included dynamo French multihull designers Marc van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot Prévost along with Mike Drummond and Mick Kermerac. We don’t quite understand why the team has taken this long to announce the design team — given that they’ve had their boat under construction for some months now. Now if they would just send us some pictures of the new boat. . . .

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