Keeping track of the statistics is just a part of Sean McNeil's day to day work of the Louis Vuitton media centre here in Auckland.

If you want chapter and verse on what happened last time these two met, McNeil's statistical summary should give you all the information you need. It's not pretty reading if you're an Oracle fan but according to Dickson this morning the team have made huge improvements to the boat and the way that they sail it.

Click here and you'll see why

Yachting World, 10 January 2003