"It is nice to be alone at the top of the leaderboard, " said BMW Oracle tactician Gavin Brady.

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The Kiwis won by three minutes two seconds to join USA's BMW Oracle and Italy's Luna Rossa in the last four.

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His BMW Oracle team, which he founded a decade ago, beat rival billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli and his Alinghi team, by a margin of 5 minutes and 25 seconds.

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American syndicate BMW Oracle Racing , bankrolled by software billionaire Larry Ellison, is the so-called "challenger of record", the team that officially laid down the challenge to Alinghi for the next Cup.

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At a February hearing before the New York Court of Appeals in Albany, lawyers for Ellison's bmw Oracle Racing made their final plea to force fellow billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli to race Ellison for the Cup.

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Giuliani doesn't seem bothered by the fact that BMW backed a loser last time--as long as Oracle BMW survives the eliminations to scud across TV screens in the final match.

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Or not, as in the last Cup, when Team Oracle BMW was eliminated before the end.

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