Team NZ wins Louis Vuitton Trophy
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March 22, 2010, Monday
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TEAM New Zealand beat Italy's Mascalzone Latino by 56 seconds yesterday to clinch a 2-0 win in the best-of-three final of the Louis Vuitton Trophy sailing regatta for America's Cup teams.
The final was to be a best-of-five race series but was trimmed to a maximum three races when light winds delayed the start of racing in Auckland yesterday.
Team New Zealand led 1-0 after winning the first race of the finals series by 12 seconds on Saturday and clinched victory in its home series with a convincing win in the second race.
Teams match-raced in identical 75-foot America's Cup Class yachts belonging to Team New Zealand and built for the 2007 America's Cup.
Australian Adam Beashel, who was up the mast on the Team New Zealand yacht, called for the boat to take the right-hand side of the course on the first upwind leg and it managed to squeeze around the first mark with an eight-second lead.
Team New Zealand gybed in a wind shift at the start of the first downwind leg and gradually stretched away from Mascalzone Latino, leading by 21 seconds at the second mark and 38 seconds at the third.
Faultless crew work on the last downwind leg saw the New Zealand team stretch its lead further by the finish.
The Louis Vuitton regatta provides racing for America's Cup teams locked out of the latest Cup regatta between the American syndicate Oracle and Switzerland's Alinghi. Oracle beat Alinghi 2-0 in a best-of-three race in February and will defend the America's Cup in 2013.
The final was to be a best-of-five race series but was trimmed to a maximum three races when light winds delayed the start of racing in Auckland yesterday.
Team New Zealand led 1-0 after winning the first race of the finals series by 12 seconds on Saturday and clinched victory in its home series with a convincing win in the second race.
Teams match-raced in identical 75-foot America's Cup Class yachts belonging to Team New Zealand and built for the 2007 America's Cup.
Australian Adam Beashel, who was up the mast on the Team New Zealand yacht, called for the boat to take the right-hand side of the course on the first upwind leg and it managed to squeeze around the first mark with an eight-second lead.
Team New Zealand gybed in a wind shift at the start of the first downwind leg and gradually stretched away from Mascalzone Latino, leading by 21 seconds at the second mark and 38 seconds at the third.
Faultless crew work on the last downwind leg saw the New Zealand team stretch its lead further by the finish.
The Louis Vuitton regatta provides racing for America's Cup teams locked out of the latest Cup regatta between the American syndicate Oracle and Switzerland's Alinghi. Oracle beat Alinghi 2-0 in a best-of-three race in February and will defend the America's Cup in 2013.
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