Ben Ainslie and his lavish backers bid to end Britain’s America’s Cup hoodoo
The multiple Olympic champion captains a British challenger funded by the elite and exclusive but if he pulls it off the cheers will ring far and wideThe snide way of looking at the British challenger for the 2017 America’s Cup would be to examine the identity of those contributing towards the £100m cost of the team’s appearance in this summer’s competition under the quietly charismatic captaincy of the multiple Olympic champion Sir Ben Ainslie, who launched his boat in Bermuda this week.Those sponsors include Annabel’s, the Berkeley Square nightclub frequented by generations of louche toffs and posh totty, and Coutts, long known as the Queen’s bankers, where you need a cool million in investable assets (not including property) to open...