1.   Despite the outward appearance of luxury cruising, most of the sailing teams are prepared for hard work and competitive racing.

2.   It does ban their competitive racing.

3.   Poor attendance, despite the competitive racing at these tracks, has led to their demise.

4.   Other than that, they said the new oval is fast, smooth, wide and promises great competitive racing.

5.   Street is scheduled to try the giant slalom on Friday in an effort to get more competitive racing.

6.   Team New Zealand chose not to have a defender series so it missed the competitive racing that would sharpen its sailing.

7.   Former road race World Champion Lance Armstrong, currently fighting cancer, hopes to resume competitive racing next year.

8.   The alterations would likely create a circuit with more competitive racing by sacrificing the top speeds achieved under existing rules.