The American defenders came back from an 8-1 deficit last week to win eight consecutive races and claim victory in the first-to-nine series.
Ainslie, who was only brought into the Oracle crew midway through the final series with the defenders on the ropes, is the first British sailor to be onboard the winning boat in an America's Cup since Charlie Barr, skipper of defenders Columbia for three consecutive regattas in 1899, 1901 and 1903.
The victory is particularly poignant for the four-time Olympic champion, who lost one of his closest friends, 2008 Olympic champion Andrew 'Bart' Simpson, in a training accident in May when the latter's Artemis AC72 challenger capsized on the same San Francisco race course.
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