He was convinced and that the vehicle would not be able to maintain a speed higher than the wind, directly downwind. By [Veritasium]’s own admittance, his original video could have contained ...

A fundamental law of sailing boats is that when they are sailing with the wind, i.e. in the same direction as the wind, they can’t sail faster than the wind itself. Sailing boats can go faster ...

“We’d won it before the last race so we went at it as a learning experience for the next regatta, working on upwind driving and downwind sailing,” Wilmot said. “They’re fast so I didn ...