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Ainslie getting ready to show the money

Published on November 14th, 2025

Britain’s Ben Ainslie leads Athena Racing, representing Royal Yacht Squadron Racing Ltd as the America’s Cup Challenger of Record. This is Ainslie’s fourth effort as team leader, but after losing INEOS as sponsor after the 2024 edition, funding questions lingered for the 2027 campaign.

Ainslie hopes to provide the answers within weeks about who will bankroll his next America’s Cup team,

The most successful Olympic sailor lifted the “Auld Mug” in 2013 with Oracle Team USA, but has made it his goal to “bring the Cup home” to Britain, where it was first contested off the south coast in 1851.

“It’s coming very soon … within the next two to four weeks, we’ll have more to say on that,” Ainslie told Reuters. “Watch this space.”