Hi nat, and Kenneth,

Sorry, but folks like us no longer represent the 'Target Demographic'...

On a sun-kissed afternoon in the Bay Area last week, Larry Olson, a 39-year-old from San Francisco, backed his car into a parking space next to Marina Green, flipped up the hatch to create a viewing platform and watched with his young children as Artemis Racing’s America’s Cup catamaran sped by in the stiff breeze on San Francisco Bay.

“My daughter’s preschool is near here, so we always come and sit and watch them practice,” Olson said. “These are amazing boats, and we’re kind of hoping they’ll flip one. It happened once before. It’s kind of like watching a Nascar race.”

This is a new era in the America’s Cup, with perhaps a new, larger audience. No one ever pulled up a chair with the realistic expectation that a 12-meter yacht might capsize.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/sports/new-technology-and-risks-enter-americas-cup.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

I really hope the Kiwis take the Cup back to Auckland, half a world away from NASCAR Nation... (grin)
Gotta confess, however - as freakish as today's F1 cars have become, I really don't want to go back to watching cars as beautiful as Dan Gurney's Eagle/Westlake racing again today... (grin)

best regards,

Jon